NYC Indie Pop collective Gramercy Arms has released the single “Never Say Anything“, which is a “paean to paranoid times.” This is the second taste of the band’s fourth album The Making Of the Making Of, to be released via Magic Door Record Label on April 26, 2024.

Gramercy Arms is a “revolving collective” of musicians and artists led by Dave Derby (The Dambuilders, Lloyd Cole) and Producer Ray Ketchem (Elk City, Guided By Voices, Luna). This particular track features acoustic guitars by Derby, basslines by Lysa Opfer (Aeon Station) and sonic textures by Mark Lizotte (Diesel) on guitar, vocals and effects.

Dave Derby says:

‘Never Say Anything’ is a song about unease and paranoia in the strange environment we inhabit right now. The fear of not knowing if someone is listening in. In some ways, it was inspired by the films ‘The Conversation’ and ‘The Secret Lives of Others’, which deal with surveillance and swirling paranoia.

We did two separate takes of ‘Never Say Anything’ during the ‘Deleted Scenes’ / ‘Making Of’ sessions. The ‘band’ version with its frenetic early Feelies-inspired drumming fits the mood of ‘Deleted Scenes’ better. This version is darker and sweeter at the same time and my personal favorite of the two. Lysa Opfer’s harmonic bass parts are sublime and gorgeous. Mark Lizotte, true to form, recorded parts in his Sydney, Australia home studio, taking the song to new unexpected heights.

The accompanying video, created by Debora Francis, features members of the Gramercy Arms collective, including Jessie Kilguss, Renee LoBue, Richard Alwyn Fisher, Ray Ketchem, Dave Derby, Sean Eden, Gary Burton, Claudia Chopek, Lysa Opfer and Phoebe Summersquash.

This album was Produced, recorded and mixed by Ray Ketchem at Magic Door Recording in Montclair, NJ with mastering by Ketchem and award-winning engineer Greg Calbi (John Lennon, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Tom Petty).