Boise-bred Indie-Alternative band Up Is The Down Is The will release their new album Pulling the Wool, on August 12th, 2022 via the respected Earth Libraries label. With their low-key dynamics, patient and thoughtful lyrics, clever guitar hooks, and haunting vocals Up Is The Down Is The is a band sure to leave a lasting impression on listeners among fans as diverse as Radiohead, Rival Schools, onelinedrawring, City and Colour, Steven Wilson, and others. Check out the new single and wild video for the track “Dawn” – here at Ghost Cult!
Bio:
Up Is The Down Is The was started in 2015 by Andrew Martin as a looping project inspired by Andrew Bird, Thom Yorke, Moses Sumney, and James Blake. After inviting more and more musicians to collaborate and expanding instrumentation, the project evolved into a 4 piece teetering on the edge between art-rock, R&B, and electronic minimalism. Let me know what you think of the new single/video “Dawn” From Andrew Martin: “The song is inspired by feeling overwhelmed or putting off a stressful situation that you inevitably need to embrace. Confronting a family member, going to therapy, having an important conversation, walking into a crowded room of strangers, or anything else that anyone initially tries to avoid. You lay in bed ruminating about these things and realize the sun’s coming up and you’re losing sleep over ultimately not taking care of yourself. Every listener is hopefully going to interpret it in a different way that they can connect to. My favorite line in this song is “Inside your head the queen takes the pawn” because I feel like that embodies the battle in your head when situations arise.”
Up Is The Down Is The Live
7/10 – Portland – Doug Fir
7/25 – Reno – TBD
8/13 – Boise – The Olympic
Up Is The Down Is The was started in 2015 by Andrew Martin as a looping project inspired by Andrew Bird, Thom Yorke, Moses Sumney, and James Blake. After inviting more and more musicians to collaborate and expanding instrumentation, the project evolved into a 4 piece teetering on the edge between art-rock, R&B, and electronic minimalism.
In 2020, the group started writing music as a way of processing the isolation from the covid pandemic, and they’ve created their most innovative driving sound yet. Their upcoming album Pulling The Wool will be released in August 2022. Up Is The Down Is The is made up of Andrew Martin, Zach Sherwood (western daughter), Cameron Brizzee (western daughter), and Casey Cathy (Transistor Send).
Pulling The Wool – Tracklisting
- Take It All Back
- Waking Up
- If These Walls Could Talk
- Wasted Time
- No Words
- A Line In The Sand
- Memento
- Hard To Say
- Pulling The Wool
- Dawn
Pulling The Wool – credits
All songs produced by Andrew Martin, Zach Sherwood, Casey Cathy, and Cameron Brizzee
Additional vocals on “A Line In The Sand” by Joshua Lewis
Mixed by Joshua Lewis
Mastered by Carl Saff
Artwork: Karl LeClair (Front), Christoper Stehman (Back Design)