Open deur bij The Hold Steady

Op 19 februari verschijnt het achtste studioalbum, dat de titel 'Open Door Policy' meekreeg.

Om ons al warm te maken voor de plaat liet The Hold Steady  nu al een eerste track los. Je kan Family Farm hieronder beluuisteren. Frontman Craig Finn gaf volgende uitleg bij het nummer: "Songs are created a bunch of different ways in the Hold Steady, but to me, our most classic songs are driving rock songs with piano breaks. Family Farm fits the bill. The genesis of the song was the guitar riff that starts it. Tad Kubler played a home demo for me and our producer Josh Kaufman, and we thought it was worth pursuing. At this point it had the working title 'August'. We brought it to the band and Franz had the idea for the bridge. This seemed like a 'scene change' of sorts, and gave the song more depth and intrigue. We recorded it in December 2019 at the Clubhouse in upstate NY, just after our annual run of shows at the Brooklyn Bowl. Our friends Stuart Bogie and Jordan McLean added horns a bit later. I was personally happy to get a mention of Van Halen's 'Eruption' in the lyrics, and I appreciate it even more after Eddie Van Halen's unfortunate recent passing. Overall, it feels like a song that will be fun to play live — uptempo, dynamic, and a chorus with shout-along potential."

Het album werd opgenomen met producer Josh Kaufman en engineer D. James Goodwin. "This album was written and almost entirely recorded before the pandemic started, but the songs and stories explore power, wealth, mental health, technology, capitalism, consumerism, and survival — issues which have compounded in 2020", licht Finn nog toe.

Het vorige album van de band dateert uit 2019. Dat was 'Thrashing Thru The Passion'.