This week I released the first single from Western Blot's second album, Materialistic, which is on the way in early 2019. "Zeros All The Way Down" is on Spotify, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Apple Music, YouTube, and lots of other places, and it features vocals by Brooks Long and trumpet by Ishai Barnoy.

Mat Leffler-Schulman made the record with me at Mobtown Studios' Charles Street building last year before they moved out. We took a lot of advantage of the building and did stuff like put mics in the stairwell down the hall from the drum room and opened up the doors, which is how we got the big, cavernous drum sound in this track. Brooks Long & The Mad Dog No Good were featured on the Baltimore Vol. 1 compilation we put together in 2013, and Brooks was one of Mat's first clients at the studio a decade ago, so it was cool to have him be part of the album. He came in not having heard the track before the session and got the hang of the song very quickly and nailed the vocal.

Ishai is playing guitar in the new Western Blot live lineup that's started practicing for shows next year, and he also played guitar on a few songs on Materialistic, including "Ill Afford" that I put on the Too 30 EP back in January. But he mentioned in passing that he plays a little trumpet, so I convinced him to lay something down on this odd funky little track that became one of my favorite things from the album sessions.

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