On June 23 Portland-based indie pop band Corvair will release their sophomore album Bound To Be via Paper Walls and UK label Where It’s At is Where You Are (pre-order). The album features Heather Larimer and Brian Naubert on vocals and instruments, along with Northwest powerhouse drummer Mike Musburger (Fastbacks, The Posies).
Today the band is pleased share “Right Hook,” the first single to be released from the forthcoming release. “Right Hook” explores the dark side of a relationship, a female narrator describing herself as a heavyweight fighter. The song and it’s accompanying video, which was directed by the band, debuted today at Glide Magazine and can also be shared at YouTube. The single is also available now on all streaming platforms for any playlist shares.
Corvair’s Heather Larimer says of the song: “On this record, I pushed myself to be more exposed and unfiltered. I can unfortunately be an ugly fighter and I wondered what would happen lyrically if I just owned up to it. The things I do that I am ashamed of and the toll it takes on everyone involved.” Naubert adds: “The musical spine of this song was me thinking about Tears for Fears meets King Crimson. But then Heather wrapped that art rock foundation in a Blondie-meets-Shirelles pop energy. It’s a strange combination that fits the story–out of control emotions that end in shame and regret.”
Corvair is a husband/wife duo from scenic Portland, Oregon. Threading together 70’s pop, 80’s synth rock and 90’s indie rock, with influences from Berlin-era Bowie to Blondie, Lee and Nancy to the Breeders, Corvair’s evocative power pop is timeless and resonant. The duo’s second album, Bound to Be, veers from muscular rock songs to languid pop confessionals, from stunning atmospherics to raw intimacy, held together by sharp lyrics and potent imagery.
Naubert and Larimer have previously recorded or performed on more than twenty albums. Larimer’s musical mainstay was the garage pop band Eux Autres, broadly hailed as a “veritable cult classic” band and radio-debuted by the late John Peel. Naubert is a longtime fixture of the Northwest rock community, having played in vital bands such as Tube Top, Pop Sickle, The Service Providers, and the critically-lauded Ruston Mire, since 1995.
The duo attributes their sudden explosion of compelling songwriting to the fact they have been friends who watched each other’s musical trajectories for many years, but only in the last few years decided to collaborate. After a thundering opening salvo with their self-titled debut, Bound to Be explores darker and more complex themes and traverses far-flung musical territory with mercurial mood swings.
Larimer says of Bound To Be, “The record was created among the rubble of what’s happened in the last couple of years. We took a very hard look at the world, and at ourselves. We wrote things we’d never been able to write before, were very exposed and truthful and, at times, gripped by outrage and anxiety.”
Naubert adds: “I tried hard to undo whatever I happen to know about music theory on this album. It’s really exciting to still be figuring out what we sound like, combining decades of separate songwriting experience. We keep learning how to play to each other’s strengths and push each other to be more ourselves–weirder or rawer. It’s my favorite record I’ve ever been a part of.”
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