Tune In at 6am Jan 16 NZ Time To Watch The Amperland, NY Movie Screening Live On YouTube
Last month Pinegrove revealed details of a new feature length film, Amperland, NY, and accompanying 22 song soundtrack album, available today on DSPs via Rough Trade – with the LP to be released physically on February 26th. The film will launch globally at 6am January 16 NZ Time on YouTube and the band will be online in the chat during the screening.
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STREAM/DOWNLOAD/PRE-ORDER “AMPERLAND, NY”
The film, scripted from a short story by Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall and directed by Kenna Hynes, was filmed at the band’s long time home in upstate New York, known as “Amperland” to Pinegrove and their fans, prior to the house being sold by the owner earlier this year.
The film, produced in conjunction with Chromoscope Pictures, and described by Evan as “fun, hopefully poignant, definitely weird ” features a full set list length of performances spanning the band’s entire career to date. Those new renditions of old gems, recorded live in the Amperland house by Pinegrove’s Sam Skinner comprise the Amperland, NY album.
Evan explains the film as “threaded by a surreal, giddy narrative – reimaginings of our songbook and first-time-imaginings of Pinegrovian tall tales.” The band viewed the project as a way of honoring the house that had acted as home, recording studio and important creative haven for their last two albums: Skylight (2017) and Marigold (2020). Today’s news comes with the release of one of the songs from the project: a new live version of “Morningtime (Amperland, NY)”, which originally appeared on Pinegrove’s 2012’s self-released debut, Meridian, and reissued onEverything so Far (2015).
The band’s last studio album, Marigold, was released to critical acclaim in January 2020 and led the New York Timesto describe them as, “The only male fronted band that matters right now.” Going on to say, “There are very few bands doing what Pinegrove are doing and connecting.”
Josh Marré, Nandi Rose, Zack Levine, Megan Benavente, Evan Stephens Hall, Sam Skinner, Nick Levine
About Pinegrove:
Formed in 2010 by childhood friends Evan Stephens Hall and drummer Zack Levine, Pinegrove have released four albums — Everything So Far, Cardinal, Skylight, and Marigold — to widespread critical acclaim, garnering them a growing and devoted listenership. They’ve described their sound as variously as ‘introspective party music,’ ‘language-arts rock,’ or ‘energetic music in the folk tradition’; in any case, they have combined catharsis and inventive structures with irrepressible melodies, resonant lyrics and emotive twang.
Zack describes Pinegrove as “a constellation of soulmates.” Zack and Evan have known each other for 26 years and been playing music together for 21, communicating via a “telepathic musical connection.” Nearly everyone they work with are friends and collaborators from way back. Amperland, NY features Evan, Zack, Josh Marré, Megan Benavente and Sam Skinner, with appearances by Nandi Rose, Nick Levine, and “Pinedads” Michael Levine and Doug Hall. Sam also engineered and co-produced the record, as he has on every Pinegrove recording since 2015.
Tracklisting for Amperland, NY:
- Moment (Amperland, NY)
- Dotted Line (Amperland, NY)
- No Drugs (Amperland, NY)
- The Alarmist (Amperland, NY)
- Morningtime (Amperland, NY)
- Sunday (Amperland, NY)
- Alcove (Amperland, NY)
- Thanksgiving (Amperland, NY)
- Peeling Off the Bark (Amperland, NY)
- On Jet Lag (Amperland, NY)
- The Metronome (Amperland, NY)
- Skylight (Amperland, NY)
- Spiral (Amperland, NY)
- Overthrown (Amperland, NY)
- Hairpin (Amperland, NY)
- Need (Amperland, NY)
- Endless (Amperland, NY)
- Amulets/Light On (Amperland, NY)
- Paterson & Leo (Amperland, NY)
- Phase (Amperland, NY)
- Intrepid (Amperland, NY)
Praise for Pinegrove:
“There’s a confessional quality to the songs of Pinegrove that feels reassuring. The problems that swirl around Evan Stephens Hall’s head feel universal” – Bob Boilen, NPR
“Pinegrove…revolves around Hall’s ability to break your heart and put it back together again in the span of a single song.” – Consequence Of Sound
“The Montclair, New Jersey’s band’s sound–off-the-cuff, loose heart-on-sleeve indie-rock cut with Americana–is the perfect vessel for that kind of premature twilight, anxiety and loss. Above all else, it feels so goddamned natural.” – Exclaim
“What’s unique about Pinegrove is how they compress uncertainty, doubt and fear without being overbearing.” – DIY Magazine
“Pinegrove is the best thing to come out of New Jersey since the invention of the lightbulb. They are seemingly always lovelorn, and exist so in a most vulnerable, straightforward, poetic way.” – WKNC
“One of the most talented recording and touring bands in the land.” – Under The Radar
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