NEW ALBUM DIVIDED KIND OUT SEPTEMBER 13TH
[9th August, 2024] Native Harrow release their new single ‘I Wanna Thank You’. This ’intimate soulful love letter’ is a bluesy love song for the one who you watch sleeping and think “this person is so beautiful, I’ll never be the same now that I know them”. It’s a song to thank the person who does right by you and is a rock in your ever changing world. Wanting to keep it simple and tasteful, the band replicate the tenderness throughout their lyrics and vocals. This single is the final taster of their forthcoming album Divided Kind out 13th September. Listen to ‘I Wanna Thank You’ here.
The Philly-based duo have remained largely independent throughout their career – musically, professionally, and aesthetically, since their beginning, meticulously crafting and perfecting a sound that is melded together from pieces of folk, soul, and rock n’ roll. They continue this ethos with ‘I Wanna Thank You’ and continue to build the excitement in anticipation for their forthcoming album. Pre-save Divided Kind here.
Recorded in the early Summer of 2023 near Brighton, ‘I Wanna Thank You’ was the first track the duo ever recorded that started with just vocal and bass. Speaking of the track, guitarist Stephen says, “We lived in Hassocks for two years, in a bright and open flat that defied England’s notorious dismal grey skies with nearly constant sunshine and light. We wanted the track to reflect the intimacy, immediacy, and warmth of Devin’s lyric, setting up a U47 in the centre of our living room for Devin’s vocal. For the guitar track, I used my Gretsch and the part reminds me of a favourite guitarist of mine, Cornell Dupree. Alex Hall added the drums in his Chicago studio and mixed the record just a few weeks later. I’m particularly proud of how the time seems to dissipate after the first chorus, the guitar snakes off into infinity and it seems like time stops, before it starts again”.
Frontwoman Devin continues, “Some people might bristle at the line “I owe you for showing me the light” because owing someone is a topic of debate amongst the singularly independent being, but if you’ve ever been in a dark place and someone you love stayed with you and clothed and fed you, listened to you, held you and gave you light, you do owe them. You owe them the respect and dignity of a thank you”
Over a catalogue of six albums, Native Harrow have produced a discography of “rich, engrossing records” and “instant classics” while single-mindedly following their own artistic code, acquiescing only to the exigence of the song: each song its own world with its own rules. Their original perspective and extraordinary songwriting, combined with a completely individual approach to crafting albums, has garnered them coverage at Uncut, Mojo, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Line of Best Fit, Paste, American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Situation, Holler, Rough Trade, Telegraph, The Evening Standard, The Times, Shindig, The Sun, and many more.
Sharing stages with legends including the Eagles, Robert Plant & Alison Kraus, and Beth Hart, as well as acts including Sierra Ferrell, The Heavy Heavy, Courtney Marie Andrews, The Cactus Blossoms, Great Lake Swimmers, Esme Patterson and more, Native Harrow spent their first five or six years crisscrossing the United States and Canada on tours on the back of two self-released albums, Ghost (2015) and Sorores (2017). In 2019, they released Happier Now, partnering with London alt-country stalwarts Loose Records. The record garnered glowing reviews, with Rough Trade selecting it for its album of the month, writing “Beautifully soaring… rolling grooves ground languid and dreamy clearwater shimmers of sound.”
Whereas Native Harrow’s previous records have grown increasingly more expansive, both stylistically and in terms of the musical forces applied, Divided Kind counters this categorical unfurling with a lateral move towards the ground, with both feet firmly planted, in a folk-soul-rock sound that still explores their love of RnB, jazz, country, and farther-flung inspirations while simultaneously digging in, with more authority, to the musical world they have constructed. Or maybe they’re still searching, and Divided Kind is what’s next. Their refusal to be put in a box, and their relentless insistence on catering to the demands of each individual song suggests the latter is likely the truth at hand.
“Twilight twang and vintage vibes”
ROLLING STONE
“Exquisite. Expect forays into desert funk, warm ‘70s groove,
jazz and piano balladry.”
UNCUT
“Razor-sharp folk rock”
MOJO
“Tuel on vocals and her deft, multi-instrumentalist bandmate Stephen Harms. Her voice is extraordinary: a liquid drawl that is well suited to the genre — and he is a magician.”
★★★★
EVENING STANDARD
September 3rd – The Folklore Rooms / Brighton UK
September 6th – The Blue Basement: Third Man / London UK
September 15th – Johnny Brenda’s / Philadelphia PA
October 5th – Lonesome Rose / San Antonio TX
All tickets can be found here.
Native Harrow’s new album Divided Kind is out 13th September via Different Time Records. Download press shots and artwork. Pre-save album Divided Kind here.
Listen to the new single ‘I Wanna Thank You’ here.
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