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We had the pleasure of interviewing The Greeting Comittee over Zoom video!\xa0

Kansas City-based alt-rock band The\xa0Greeting\xa0Committee just released their second studio album\xa0Dandelion. The record was\xa0produced by\xa0Jennifer Decilveo\xa0(MARINA, FLETCHER, Bat for Lashes) and mixed by\xa0Dave Fridmann\xa0(The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala).
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Anchored by a gorgeously airy vocal performance from\xa0frontwoman\xa0Addie Sartino,\xa0the recent single, \u201cFloat Away\u201d\xa0opens on a candid piece of confession: \u201cGlad it\u2019s raining so I don\u2019t have to go outside and pretend I\u2019m happy just to be alive.\u201d With production from\xa0Jennifer Decilveo\xa0(MARINA, FLETCHER, Bat for Lashes), the track unfolds in fuzzed-out riffs, frenetic rhythms, and incandescent textures as\xa0Sartino\xa0documents her inner turmoil with an intense level of detail.\xa0\u201cThere\u2019s a line in the chorus that says, \u2018Stale rye, once an apple\u2019s eye,\u2019 which is a way of saying, \u2018I used to have so much potential, and now I\u2019m sitting here frozen, and I don\u2019t know what to do with myself,\u2019\u201d she notes.
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After slipping into a moment of anti-nostalgia (\u201cHaven\u2019t felt this since/Listening to the 1975 while getting high/In somebody\u2019s basement party\u201d),\xa0\u201cFloat Away\u201d\xa0closes out with another bit of personal revelation: \u201cTreading water\u2019s getting harder/Don\u2019t let me fall another martyr.\u201d But despite its undeniable melancholy,\xa0\u201cFloat Away\u201d\xa0embodies a strangely exhilarating energy thanks to the stormy urgency of\xa0The\xa0Greeting\xa0Committee\u2019s sound and the pure catharsis of its uncompromising honesty.
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Created by illustrator/animator\xa0Kezia Gabriella, the video for\xa0\u201cFloat Away\u201d\xa0perfectly captures the track\u2019s whirlwind of feeling. The beautifully offbeat and brightly colorful visual follows\xa0Sartino\u2019s avatar through a series of gently articulated emotional states \u2014 isolation, disconnection, overwhelmed confusion \u2014 and ultimately finds her rediscovering a subtle yet powerful sense of hope.\xa0

About\xa0The\xa0Greeting\xa0Committee:

Comprised of Addie Sartino, Brandon Yangmi, Pierce Turcotte, and Austin Fraser, The\xa0Greeting\xa0Committee\xa0have fully embraced a spirit of purposeful sharing since their formation in 2014. Founded soon after Sartino and Yangmi got their start playing open-mic nights in Kansas City, the band self-released their debut EP\xa0It\u2019s Not All That Bad\xa0in fall 2015. The EP\u2019s lead single \u201cHands Down\u201d quickly became a breakout hit, paving the way for The\xa0Greeting\xa0Committee\u2019s signing to\xa0Harvest\xa0Records\xa0when they were all still in high school. After making their\xa0Harvest\xa0debut with the\xa0Meeting People Is Easy\xa0EP in 2017 and releasing their debut album\xa0This Is It\xa0in 2018, the band spent much of the next few years on the road, with sold-out headline shows in major markets such as Chicago, Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. To date, they\u2019ve toured with the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Tennis, Hippo Campus, and Rainbow Kitten Surprise and taken the stage at leading festivals like Lollapalooza and SXSW, in addition to delivering the\xa0I\u2019m Afraid I\u2019m Not Angry\xa0EP in late 2019 and appearing in Netflix\u2019s\xa0To All the Boys: Always and Forever. The band\u2019s second album\xa0Dandelion\xa0was released on September 24 via\xa0Harvest\xa0Records.

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