Valley Lodge, the NYC rock band and Last Week Tonight theme song composers led by comedian, bon vivant and occasional BrooklynVegan contributor Dave Hill, have announced a new album, Shadows in Paradise, that will be out April 19 via Tee Pee Records. This is their fifth album and was made with producer Tom Beaujour (Nada Surf, Juliana Hatfield), and features contributions from Dave’s former Cobra Verde bandmate Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf), Happy Chichester (Royal Crescent Mob, Twilight Singers) and more.
The first single from the album is the sweet, poppy “I Wrote a Song,” which Dave describes as “two-minutes and fifty seconds of pop rock schizophrenia that sounds kind of like Paul McCartney if he’d joined Big Audio Dynamite on bass to record a song for a homecoming dance in a John Hughes movie,” adding, “there’s even piano, synths, and violin plucks on this one, and lyrics that include references to suburban street gangs, nomadic warriors in East Africa, and even a passing reference to eighties Canadian muscle metal band THOR, which doesn’t happen nearly enough in modern music.”
You can watch the lyric video below.
Dave Hill recently wrapped up dates opening for Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy’s REM tribute.
Shadows in Paradise:
1. Daylights
2. I Wrote a Song [Listen]
3. Hanging Around
4. Secret Lover
5. Doorstep
6. After School
7. Trouble
8. Dyin’
9. Dirty Dishes
10. Out of Time
11. That Love
