[Cover photo credit to Jeffrey Neubauer]
Bozeman, Montana-based Americana-tinged Bluegrass band the Kitchen Dwellers have shared “Pendulum (V)” the second song to be released from the band’s forthcoming studio album Seven Devils, due out March 1, 2024, via No Coincidence Records.
Joe Funk explains about the song’s inspirations:
The groundwork for “Pendulum” came from observations within and around me of the concept of addiction replacement and my own interest in how dopamine and other hormones influence compulsion and decision-making in daily life. I’ve long had a theory that everyone has a baseline addictive tendency that must be satisfied, and it is up to the mind to decide at which point on the “good” and “bad” spectrum that habit is chosen.
“Pendulum (V)” follows November’s release of the title track, “Seven Devils (Limbo)” which was accompanied by an official music video.
Inspired by the classic tale of Dante’s voyage through the Nine Circles of Hell, Seven Devils guides the listener through a similar exploration, with certain songs corresponding to one of the Seven Deadly Sins, including “Pride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth.”
Other songs draw inspiration from Dante’s The Divine Comedy itself, following a “musical descent into the abyss.”
The album was recorded at GBP Studios in East Lansing, Michigan and was recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Grammy winner Glenn Brown (Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass).
Max Davies comments:
We knew going into this project that we wanted to work with someone that was really going to push us. Glenn has a way of working the music out of you in a way that is all his own – creating songs out of nothing. Many tunes on this record were written as a result of improvising and trying out different ideas. Each song contains a piece from everyone in the band. Every tune on the record holds musical ideas from each one of us. For this reason, we think it sounds the most like us that any record has.
The band will wrap up 2023 with three NYE shows in Missoula, MT before hitting the road for nationwide dates in 2024 that include their recently announced Colorado dates in May that are a part of their “Seven Devils Seven Cities” album tour.
