Has anyone else felt overwhelmed in the past YEAR?
As if the pandemic wasn’t enough to deal with, the loss of live music as we know it, has been detrimental to not only the musicians themselves but to us consumers, too. Mental health has become more of an issue than ever before as I feel that we have been left to our own devices.
One thing that helps when we are down is MUSIC and performers have taken the chance to find new ways to share with us. I, for one, was excited to see THRICE back with a very cool project.
They’ve been around since 1998 and their music has been consistently strong. Innovative rock created by their frontman Dustin Kensrue, guitarist Teppei Teranishi, bassist Eddie Breckenridge, and drummer Riley Breckenridge from their debut album Identity Crisis in 2000 to their last album three years ago, Palms.
To remind us that music isn’t dead and a sure way of keeping sane amongst these weird times, Thrice did an exclusive acoustic session for SirusXM’s hard rock channel Octane live from home. They’ve just launched “Just Breathe” and “Better Bridge” from the session on all streaming platforms.
"It's always fun to try dig out the skeletons buried in the songs,” front man Dustin Kensrue says in regards to stripping down the tracks. “We nearly always start songs with instrumental parts and craft melodic structure around those parts, and so it's a process of discovery when we do a stripped-down project like this and cut things away to find the core of the song."
The session is also available on 7” via the band’s webstore.
LISTEN TO PALMS – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS FOR OCTANE NOW
Palms – Acoustic Session for Octane Track Listing
1. Just Breathe
2. Better Bridge