Nashville-based post punk outfit Chapel of Roses — Chris E. Kelley (vocal, guitar), Jim T. Graham (pedal steel), Preach Rutherford (bass), Colin Baker (drums) — can trace their origins back to the mid 1980s.
Their single “Chapel of Roses” received regular airplay on the local college radio station WRVU. And while the band’s members were just in high school, they toured for a bit including opening for Gene Loves Jezebel before breaking up. However, the members of the Nashville-based quartet continued to write and record music in a number of different projects throughout the years.
The band’s Chris Kelley spent the better part of the past two decades living overseas. But right before the pandemic, he returned to Nashville, and the the members of quartet started making music again.
The Nashville-based outfit’s latest single, “Cast Out to Sea” features backing vocals from Brittany Hadley. Anchored around a sinuous and slinky bass line, angular guitar stabs, driving four-on-the-floor and swirling reverb-soaked pedal steel serving as a brooding and sultry bed for Kelley’s yearning delivery and remarkably soulful catchy hooks with backing vocalist Brittany Hadley. And while the band cites Velvet Underground, Big Star, Ride, Joy Division, New Order as influences on their sound, “Cast Out to Sea” seems to channel Primal Scream and Britpop.
The accompanying, slickly edited video features the band performing the song in front of roving spotlight.
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