Ed Schrader’s Music Beat “Riddles” Pre-Release Listening Party

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Ed Schrader’s Music Beat “Riddles” Pre-Release Listening Party

Join us and Carpark Records Wednesday 2/28 for a sneak preview of Ed Schrader’s Music Beat new album “Riddles” not out until 3/2! We’ll have album giveaways and a ticket giveaway to their DC show on 3/3!

About the album:

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat needed to make this record. 19 tours in the U.S. since the Baltimore-based duo’s formation in 2010, from headlining underground spaces to opening massive venues for Future Islands, had left vocalist Ed and bassist Devlin Rice exhausted—and hungry to take their music to the next level. Ed and Devlin dreamed of a fuller sound—layered, breathing arrangements their early rapid-fire compositions always seemed to imply, without yet having the tools to realize.

On Riddles, their first release for Carpark, the Music Beat begins their new life. In search of a fresh direction, Ed and Devlin invited their close friend, electronic-pop maestro Dan Deacon, to expand their sound and experiment with them as the album’s producer, arranger, and co-writer. Working steadily in Dan’s studio for two years in total collaboration, three evolving musicians pushed through an intense period of personal tumult and found purpose in the sounds they were committing to record. The result: a polished and passionate masterpiece of nuanced alt-rock. From driving opening track “Dunce” and the soaring single “Riddles” to the disarmingly gorgeous closer “Culebra,” Ed and Devlin unapologetically channel a personal pantheon of pop and rock gods while growing into the band—and people—they’d previously kept caged inside.

February 28 2018

Details

Date: February 28, 2018
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Venue

Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe

2477-2475 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009 United States

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