[Cover photo credit to Paige Margulies]

Independent artist Holy Roller Baby, the Rock n’ Roll avatar of multi-instrumentalist Jared Mullins, has released new single “Girl From the East Side.” The new song is the second single from the upcoming LP Smile Like Heaven, out on August 23, 2024.

The song’s title and lyrics reference lead singer and songwriter Jared Mullins’ time spent in Cleveland growing up.

Jared Mullins says:

Cleveland is weird. There’s one highway, and it splits the city into East and West. As a kid, we never went to the East Side, because the rumor was that people were always discovering dead bodies there. What would you do if you went for a walk and discovered a dead body? Hide? Run? Shriek? Me? I wrote a song about it.

Smile Like Heaven, was recorded between Valve Studios, in Dallas, TX and Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire, England with producer Ian Davenport (Radiohead, Band Of Skulls). The sound of the album naturally evolved as the musicians performed live in one room.

Mullins adds:

I hope people hear the fearlessness I brought to this LP with Ian. I’m just trying to channel the emotion of having one’s mind blown the way I did when I first heard rock-n-roll.

Holy Roller Baby will be releasing more new music in 2024 ahead of the release of Smile Like Heaven.