- 2024-02-29
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ benches Returns With New Song “Naive”
San Diego-based alt Rock band benches, consisting of Anson Kelley (vocals/guitar), Ethan Bowers (drums), Evan Ojeda (lead guitar), and Charlie Baird (bass), returned with a new song “Naive” on February 28, 2024.
The song is their first music in a year, since the 2023 single “Crash”.
Also, the song will appear on their upcoming EP.
It was written by Anson Kelley, Charlie Baird, Ethan Bowers, and Evan Ojeda. Produced by Jordan Krimston, and benches.
benches said of the song, “'Naive' at its core, is ugly and uncomfortable. It plays between jagged-edged truths and defensive deception. Somewhere between hollow promises and mistakes laid-bare. 'Naive' loves to feign sincerity. It lies to itself sometimes, while pacing back and forth, on edge. Drifting forward cautiously in unease. It doesn't want to expose its many secrets. It doesn't want to look itself in the mirror, but would rather bury itself far within a hardened exterior. The words are obscured in effects to hide the details.”- The band continued, “The musical landscape attempts to place you in a world where every wrong turn takes the steering wheel, and doubt waves from every corner, eventually throwing you through the windshield in slow motion down into a sinkhole as life as you know it begins to collapse. This dramatization is necessary to highlight the complexities of a flawed perspective (and make me look even more pretentious but hey whaddya gonna do it's how I write). 'Naive' has that sinking feeling that you may happen upon after unexpectedly unearthing an ugly realization. And it tries to play it cool in the midst of it all.”
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Photo by Emma Gibbs - source : Apple Music
