Drop Nineteens - A Hitch

Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 8 a.m.

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Drop Nineteens - "A Hitch" a 2023 single on Wharf Cat Records

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It\'s been 30 years, but\\xa0Boston shoegazers\\xa0Drop Nineteens returned last week with their long-awaited third full-length,\\xa0Hard Light. The album features the band\'s original line-up of\\xa0Greg Ackell, Steve Zimmerman, Paula Kelley, Motohiro Yasue, with drummer Pete Koeplin (who played on the band\'s second album,\\xa0National Coma). Co-founder\\xa0Ackell describes the new album as "the band\\u2019s proverbial follow up to [their 1992 debut]\\xa0Delaware, a modern Drop Nineteens record that is completely singular in its sound and vision."

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In fact, today\'s Song of the Day is the song that got the reunion rolling.\\xa0\\u201c\\u2019A Hitch,\\u2019 was the first song the band wrote when they got back together,\\u201d Ackell explains in a press release. \\u201cIt set the tone for the rest of the album, for what a new Drop Nineteens song could sound like.\\u201d

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