Independent artist Holy Roller Baby, the rock n’ roll brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Jared Mullins, today releases their 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. Absolute Radio UK is an early supporter of “Girl From the East Side” with host Danielle Perry saying the song is, “Like the best bits of Queens of the Stone Age.”
“Girl From the East Side” melds together impressive vocals with stylistically varied guitar work, creating rich sonic textures that build towards the climax of the song which features a masterful guitar solo. The song’s title and lyrics reference lead singer and songwriter Jared Mullins’ time spent in Cleveland growing up.
Jared 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.”
The first single from the upcoming album “Speaking in Tongues” was lauded by critics, with KUTX saying, “We won’t recommend making out in the middle of train tracks for obvious safety concerns, but we will urge you to check out the Super 8 music video for ‘Speaking In Tongues’, since it’s such a powerful emotional accompaniment to what sounds like Holy Roller Baby’s Central Texas twist on Radiohead’s “Creep”, high contrast dynamics, unhurried grunge arrangement, impassioned vocal performance, and all. Rock on, Rollers. Rock on.”
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 under Davenport’s watch.
Jared says, “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.
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