TRACK PREMIERE: King Park – Listen Up Now

TRACK PREMIERE: King Park - Listen Up Now
Credit - Nick Parry

King Park has been turning out mercurial, high-contrast indie rock since they released their 2017 breakout track, “Stay.” Gritty and lush, the quartet’s sound mirrors the antitheses of their hometown, Hamilton, Ontario: on the one hand, blue-collar and raw, and, on the other, artful and lovely.

Following their self-released debut EP, The Light I Can’t See, King Park won the 97.7 HTZ-FM’s Rock Search 2018 contest, which helped launch other Canadian rock groups like Finger Eleven, the Trews, and Glorious Sons. The basement-to- ceiling intensity of their live show has since continued to earn them a growing and devoted following across southern Ontario.

At the heart of the group you’ll find childhood friends and musical co-conspirators Timon Moolman (vocals, guitar) and Tyler Heemskerk (bass, vocals), rounded out more recently by guitarist Brenden Campbell and the animated Nate Wall on drums.

Sneak peeks of their upcoming 2020 full-length, Everett, show the quartet exploiting its strengths. Guitars chime, drums thwack, and Moolman’s broken-up baritone—which often veers into shouted speak-sing—is ornamented one minute by barbershop harmonies, and the next by barstool gang vocals. Songs like “This is the End,” “Stuck in the Middle,” and the title track set up camp in that familiar moment afterlife has fallen apart, and before a way forward seems possible. King Park’s Everett promises a collection of elegies for ordinary, apocalyptic losses.

“Listen Up Now,” taken from our forthcoming new album, “Everett”, was sparked by the first fight of a new relationship, made all the worse because it occurred in the morning.

This song questions what we really want, extending from one’s relationship to their job and music too. “Listen Up Now” was the seed which Everett grew from, capturing a sense of millennial dissatisfaction – a simultaneously listless and restless quality.”

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Facebook: facebook.com/kingparkmusic

Twitter: twitter.com/king_park_music

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