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Sweet Action

by King Brown

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1.
F Genus 02:40
my big rock candy mountain my big rock candy girl my big rock candy mountain my big rock candy girl i chew a sticky stick you shoot a sticky gun i chew a sticky stick you got it real bad son well that little look that you gave me said my friend you know you better run you're my big pile of bricks soaring leviathan you knock my bones again until the unknown comes well i got up for a minute grabbed a cig sat down smoked it and now i'm done
2.
take a habit turn it into loss middle finger hit the bricks baby child playing baby games til you kill me with my low hold my hand shake my cage take away the lie give to me a way out tonight i think i'm gonna need one
3.
Let You Down 03:09
like a bubble in my straw you’re a fly on the wall you make the colors you make the cut you make the colors move you're a smoking gun you shot a hole in the setting sun and now we let you down to the bottom of the ocean
4.
Us And Then 03:01
here i go again talking out my ass write it on the wall strike a little match wonder where she went counting up the days all my fire spent all my fire fades us and then kind enough to walk kind enough to wait lose another friend burn another bridge wonder where she went counting up the days all my fire spent all my fire fades us and then monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday, saturday, saturday night sunday summer sun and the silver moon light us and then
5.
Sweet Action 04:04
took just about everything i had not to get out of your way you took a knife straight into my bone cut a piece of that sweet stuff leave me alone because i want some because i need some because i can't take another night alone grass stains laugh at my blue jeans won’t let me wash you off of my skin i wanna bathe inside of your hell my dirty laundry folds itself because i want some because i need some because i can't take another night alone sweet action boy because i want some because i need some because i can't take another night alone
6.
i said did you want something you said yes i do I try to tell you where it hurts so baby why don't you when the strange is the hardest part you gotta reach out to me and connect the dots until you walk on by you're the queen of fire oh yeah and the pyramids that you build come tumbling in interrogate and excommunicate i can't even tell what you’re talking about i said something funny but baby you don't laugh i'm done hiding im done getting high until you walk on by you're the queen of fire oh yeah and the pyramids that you build come tumbling in and I try try to fix it
7.
for the love of god whatever you do don't turn it off don't touch that dial for the love of god whatever you do don't turn it off whatever you do let it play let it come true let it ring let it ring through you won’t don't touch that dial
8.
Radio 03:18
you’re a hot knife lover yeah you draw the line let me take your disco love lemme be your summer movie driving gloves you’re a super sonic sister but you’re never on time my hands on your resistor walk up and down your coast line well I turn the knobs and I twist the dial but nothing ever happens so baby can you let me know how to work your radio
9.
11 11 03:07
i was a junkyard dog howling outside your heart i was a junkyard dog howling outside your heart caught with a wanted man had to run home again i lost my mind inside your heart inside your head howling like a dog who lost his bone or a priest who lost his god you’re a man who lost faith outside the corner store i see the devil 11 11 howling

about

There’s nothing subtle about Sweet Action, the newest release from Twin Cities and New Orleans-based guitar/drum duo King Brown. Recorded over a two day span at Minneapolis’ legendary Hideaway Studios by veteran engineer/producer Brady Moen, the record strikes the difficult balance of being both a meticulously crafted studio album and a perfectly-mixed club show…without the spilled beer and ear-ringing.

Make no mistake though, King Brown know about spilled beer and ear-ringing club shows: since they first met after Aaron Esnough answered guitarist Alex Ashmun’s “drummer wanted” ad, King Brown have cut their teeth at staple Minneapolis dives like the 331 Club, Eagles Club, Hexagon Bar, and Palmer’s. Their self-titled debut EP, released in November of 2019, is a three-song romp that Divide and Conquer called “a tight, smoking, punky set of guitar-riff driven tunes that will have you up and moving.” Though it’s brief (the whole thing clocks in at just seven minutes and change), the EP lays out the perfect blueprint for the group’s sound: driving beats and crashing cymbals, turbo-distorted and octave-up guitar, all sold by Ashmun’s too-cool-for-school Julian Casablancas-esque vocal drawl.

But it’s on their debut full-length Sweet Action, due for release this spring, that King Brown truly hit their stride. More than the first EP, Sweet Action shows off the band’s abilities as players and songwriters, with each of the nine songs hitting harder than the last. Lead single “Hit The Bricks” feels exactly as the title suggests - motoring a million miles an hour through a Kool Aid Man-style brick wall - while the album’s title track could easily be heard sung from the rafters at a post-COVID World Cup match. Moen’s deft hand rewards repeated listens as well, pulling the curtain back to reveal layer upon layer of beautiful noise.

Though their instrumentation and Midwestern roots immediately invite the comparison to similar rock duos, King Brown makes as much noise as five people with only two by turning their amps up louder, hitting their drums harder, and making the most kick-ass moments of any White Stripes or Black Keys song last for the entire length of an album. Sweet Action is a confident, larger-than-life statement by a band just tapping into their raw power. King Brown is here to wake you up.

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released May 7, 2021

All songs written and performed by King Brown

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Brady Moen @ Hideaway Studios in Minneapolis, MN

Album Artwork by Ross Auger

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King Brown Minneapolis, Minnesota

Juicy Alternative Rock Tandem from Minneapolis, MN.
Alex Ashmun - Guitar/Vocals
Aaron Esnough - Drums

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