Seattle-based four-piece Brad have announced that they’ll release their fifth studio album ‘United We Stand’ on May 14th.
After a career spanning almost two decades, Brad have remained a unified front, more committed to playing together than ever before. The alternative rockers formed in 1991 and released their debut ‘Shame’ in 1993 – and have since put out three more records, at rather spacious intervals: ‘Interiors’ four years later, ‘Welcome to Discovery Park’ five years later, and ‘Best Friends’ eight years after that.
But, as positive and happy as before, the band have recorded their fifth record and will be putting it out next month.
“At this point, we’ve been a band for 19 years and realised we aren’t going anywhere,” Brad co-founder/guitarist Stone Gossard says of the band. “It’s a really fun band, a creative music group. It’s just a time in our lives where we love getting together and making music.”
Though each Brad member has obligations to other groups—Gossard to Pearl Jam, Smith to Pidgeonhed, Hagar to Satchel, and Lowe to playing with such artists as David Sylvain —they overcome the time and scheduling challenges their other commitments bring.
Recording ‘United We Stand’, the band’s first album since 2010’s ‘Best Friends?’ was such an enjoyable experience that Hagar says he and his bandmates vowed to “make sure we will try to record once a year, even if nothing comes out of it.”
Going forward, the members of Brad feel a growing appreciation that even when the rope that connects them has stretched thin, they’ve never let go of what they have together. And, as they go head into their 20th year, they are making their best, most cohesive work yet. “Whether it’s rehearsing or playing, Gossard says, “I’m just so thankful that we’ve maintained the relationship through thick and thin.”
You can check out the ‘United We Stand’ tracklisting below.
Tracklist:
1. Miles of Rope
2. Bound In Time
3. A Reason To Be In My Skin
4. Diamond Blues
5. The Only Way
6. Last Bastion
7. Make The Pain Go Away
8. Needle And Thread
9. Tea Bag
10. Through The Day
11. Waters Deep (European version bonus track)
12. Don’t Cry
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