A Country Western Announce New Album Audition Tape: Hear “Blood Eagle”

The grittily melodic, noise-streaked Philly indie band A Country Western are back today with news of Audition Tape, a new album out next month. The sessions included some work with producer Dan Angel, who also helped out with Lotto by former A Country Western split partners They Are Gutting A Body Of Water. So far, I like what I'm hearing.Lead single "Blood Eagle" is a compulsively listenable two-minute shoegaze track that sounds like calmly speeding through sludge. It was reportedly Erik Hilbert's attempt to write a song that "slams" like the work of his bandmate Garrett Miades. More on that from Hilbert:I was mostly inspired by the brutality of “Halo Mode" [song on Audition Tape]. Garrett has a propensity for writing indie rock songs that absolutely slam. The demo existed without lyrics until we started recording it with Dan [Angel]. The lyrics are just kind of a collection of words I felt made a vignette that conjured the same doom and gloom as Beowulf, which I had been writing poems about all that week.Listen below.TRACKLIST:01 "45 Degrees"02 "Audition"03 "Blood Eagle"04 "Not Far Enough"05 "I Found"06 "Mourning Dove"07 "Wider"08 "No Alcohol"09 "Halo Mode"10 "The Energy"11 "Baseball Game"12 "Redemption Inner Circle (Solvent OS Remix)"Audition Tape is out 10/21 on Crafted Sounds. Pre-order it here.Luke Ivanovich