ROCK-TRIO EXCUSES EXCUSES DEBUT FULL-LENGTH LISTEN UP! OUT NOW
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(Toronto, ON – September 20, 2022) – Rock trio Excuses Excuses pair a blistering youthful energy with an attention to the finest details of songwriting, they come armed with a lawless desire to make a true believer out of everyone in the room with their deep, introspective lyrics, jaw-dropping emotion, and melody-heavy songs. As thought-provoking as it is intense, the power of their live show unites and captivates audiences worldwide, and the title of their latest offering Listen Up!, is out now as much a call-to-arms as it is a visceral decree.
The band share the video for their album’s latest single “My Nicotine” – a dark and blistering track with a video to match. About the song singer Kyle shares “When we were recording this track, we knew there was something special about it as soon as we heard it through the studio speakers. It was almost haunting how we all looked around to each other as the first chorus hit with our jaws wide open as if we were all thinking “did you hear that?!?!” I think it was a big turning point for the recording of our album, because that was the moment we realized we had something much more special than just a collection of songs on our hands. We had a real RECORD, and nothing can recreate how good that felt.”
The band are currently out on the road in support of Listen Up!, playing shows across Ontario and eastern Canada. With stops in the east coast including shows in Charlottetown, Saint John and Halifax under their belts, the band are back in Ontario for a string of dates in Oshawa, Windsor, London and Guelph upcoming. Upcoming dates below.
TOUR DATES
09.24 – The Biltmore Theatre – Oshawa, ON
10.06 – Phog Lounge – Windsor, ON
10.07 – Rum Runners – London, ON
10.08 – Silence – Guelph, ON
More about Excuses Excuses:
Rock and roll: young hearts, alive, wild, and free, under the lights of a club stage, in front of decibel-bending amplifiers, behind a wall of shaking fists and shouting friends, conjuring the spirits, cleansing with fire. Like an untamed and ferocious animal, you can feel and hear it all wash over you like waves from your place in the crowd. It is here that Excuses Excuses are most at home.
Unlike some of their contemporaries however, Excuses Excuses don’t rely on just their energetic spirit alone: Excuses Excuses expertly pairs their unconfined, youthful energy with a pop sensibility and a focused sense of attention to the most subtle details of meticulously catchy songwriting.
“I was always very attracted to high energy music, and that started with Sabbath,” recalls singer and guitarist Kyle Wilton, reminiscing of rifling through a dusty record collection, the spirit of rock and roll at his fingertips, right there for the taking. “But all of our songs really mean something very specific, and although we want people to interpret them however it makes sense to them, you’ve got to communicate those emotions in a way that people are going to feel.”
Excuses Excuses come armed with a lawless desire to make a true believer out of everyone—and that means everyone—in the room with their jaw-dropping intensity and melody-heavy songs. From the veteran jaded rocker in the front, to the fading bartender claiming to have “seen it all,” to the star-crossed lovers soon to meet in the front row: all are tender prey, fair game, and converts in the making. “That’s where we live, on the road. That’s the best way to express our music,” Wilton admits earnestly. “The emotion is so much more and speaks a whole new volume to the story when somebody can perform it to you as opposed to you just listening to it. That’s the best way for us to communicate our songs to the world, is to show them.”
Rock and roll is a weapon, a promise, an energy, and it captivates and inspires, pulling us within the fiery whirlpool of its deadly spell. Carrying that torch into a new era of young, sweaty, and overdriven rock and rollers, yet standing apart from those that have come before them, Excuses Excuses come armed with generations of melodies, influences, and inspirations to draw from.