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Confessed The Sheets

by Bicentennial Drug Lord

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"Confessed The Sheets"is the first single of the new EP entitled BDL, to be released by Vfib Recordings on August 27. The song is a mix of 1970’s The Who (complete with Townshend keyboards in the chorus), 1980’s Simple Minds, and 1990’s indie rock blended together to describe the day after an endless summer night and the resulting damage assessment.

Based in Milwaukee, WI, Bicentennial Drug Lord was formed when longtime friends John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Soda, Maki, Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights) needed a side project where, as Weatherhead puts it, “we could play and record the sad-sack country songs we wrote and couldn’t play in our main bands." BDL’s debut record The First Hit Is Free crystallized a Minneapolis winter with music that could thaw even the iciest heart.

FOR ITS NEW RELEASE, THE 6-SONG EP BDL, the band got together during a long, muggy summer to record the songs in a cottage outside of Richmond, VA. Emerging from a weekend writing session at a nearby horse farm where Daniels was living, the new songs reflect a fresh collaborative approach to songwriting and a shift away from the country focus of their debut. This time only “The Traffic Outside” (a stately waltz about a couple trying to bridge the expanding distance between them for one more night) feels like a country song. The rest of the tunes, from the first single “Confessed the Sheets” (a mix of 1970’s The Who [complete with Townshend keyboards in the chorus], 1980’s Simple Minds, and 1990’s indie rock blended together to describe the day after an endless summer night and the resulting damage assessment) to the swirling, catchy “Your Eyelids For A Bend” to the anthemic, analogue-synth-embellished “Salt Off” (described by the band as an “everybody is just trying to get clean song” that celebrates the rudderless freaks and their love for Led Zeppelin) hold up a mirror to the highs and lows of a time when a single summer felt like a lifetime. BDL gets the details right. Big choruses, subtle songwriting, indie pop in places with a dose of 70’s rock. Summer’s coming down.

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released July 14, 2021
Produced by Bicentennial Drug Lord
Recorded and Mixed by Alan Weatherhead in Richmond, VA
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering
All songs written by Daniels/Donner/Weatherhead
© and ℗ 2021 BDL Music; Under license to vfibrecordings
Cover design by DishDesign
Cover photo “4th of July, Mpls 1995” by Dan Monick
Band photos by Mark Cherek

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BDL gets the details right. Big choruses, subtle songwriting, indie pop in places with a dose of 70’s rock. Summer’s coming down. Based in Milwaukee, WI, Bicentennial Drug Lord was formed by longtime friends John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Soda, Maki, Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights). ... more

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