Stray Fossa has released a b-side to their earlier EP titled With You For Ever B-Sides & Live. The EP was dropped on August 10, two months before they go on tour with Dreamgirl. The EP has two live songs from With You For Ever, an imaginative album they released earlier this year, along with two b-sides. Bear the Waves? is, “a reworked version of an older tune for those who The EP has the strongest surf-pop vibes. Vocals are pushed back behind the music, which makes it an interesting mix. The guitars blend together to create a bedroom surf sound. A strength of Stray Fossa’s music is that their music is easy to put on repeat. They’re great songs to drive to with the windows down. Four songs in and we’re hooked.
On the single ‘Bear the waves?” the artist said, “One night one of our first releases “Bear The Waves” started playing on Spotify and Will found himself singing a completely different melody over the music. So he opened up the old project, muted the original vocal takes and wrote a new song over the instrumental. We then recorded additional synth lines and brought in archived samples of seagulls and beach surf. The result felt too different to include on our first album, so we decided to release it as part of a B-Sides EP coming out in August 2021.”
The lyrics have been rewritten entirely. Comparing the above with the original chorus, “It’s true, I left the sand to bear the waves. For you, but socialites and masquerades, got me.” So while the pull to ‘bear the waves’ is the same, their response to it has altered over the past three years.
The band will be going on a short tour with Dreamgirl in October, including a show with PYNKIE. They will be returning to their hometown of Chartottesville, Virginia for a belated album release show for With You For Ever.
- 06 Oct – Philadelphia, PA – at Kung Fu Necktie Bar
- 07 Oct – Brooklyn, NY – at The Sultan Room w/ PYNKIE
- 08 Oct – Washington DC – at Pie Shop
- 09 Oct – Charlottesville, VA – (belated) ALBUM RELEASE SHOW at The Southern Cafe & Music Hall
Comprised of brothers, Nick and Will Evans and Zach Blount, the trio draw on a mixed musical inspiration absorbed from parents’ record collections. They got organising regular free concerts in their hometown of Sewanee, Tennessee and their careers took off from there.
