American Culture: "1972" video

Denver's outsider lo-fi rockers American Culture have made a video for 1972, a track from their latest album For My Animals: "The quartet are not here to provide a good time as such - listeners have to work to find a connection, but once they have managed to do that the band's special blend of bubblegum pop, punk and leftfield garage opens up like a treasure trove of damn smart songs that celebrate the back alleys of music that are never advertised on Clear Channel. Drift away with the psych-pop of 1972 and Horoscopes or try to nod along with the shifting rhythms of I Like American Music".

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American Culture: For My Animals

Denver's outsider lo-fi rockers American Culture go in at the deep end on their new album For My Animals, offering a wide (and wild) variety of songs that will have mainstream lovers running to the nearest exit. Being fiercely out of tune is part of the fun of Pedals, channeling Eric Burdon & War is the order of the day for No Peace and The Meat Puppets are the main point of reference for Losing My Mind. The Velvets meet the Replacements during a visit to the Drug Dealer's House.

The quartet are not here to provide a good time as such - listeners have to work to find a connection, but once they have managed to do that the band's special blend of bubblegum pop, punk and leftfield garage opens up like a treasure trove of damn smart songs that celebrate the back alleys of music that are never advertised on Clear Channel. Drift away with the psych-pop of 1972 and Horoscopes or try to nod along with the shifting rhythms of I Like American Music. This album has collector's item written all over it.

HCTF premiere - American Culture: For My Animals

Denver's outsider lo-fi noise rockers American Culture know all about driving around the States to gigs in ill-equipped basements to play another show. They dubbed their fans "animals", not in a degrading but loving way, and wrote a song for them. It became the title track for their third studio album, For My Animals, due for release in March 19th via Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records (vinyl, cassette). Recorded on a 4 track cassette it sounds a bit murky, but that is intentional and part of the charm. Songwriter Chris about how the song was written:

I don’t want to feign modesty here (isn’t put on modesty even more pretentious than bragging?) but this is super hard. Writing about a song I made? It’s always awkward to talk about your own. It’s especially tricky to talk about this stuff because we have a policy in this band (perhaps our ONLY policy) to never think too long, never fuss too hard on a song. If it starts to be labored or over thought, we throw the whole idea out. We might be lazy but we’ve found that the best ones just kind of write themselves. The happy accidental songs are the only keepers here. Our practices are more about finding jams that songs can grow out of. I usually take those loose sketches home and make the poetry part as I’m drifting off to sleep or as I’m waking up from sleep.