Austin’s Russell Taine, Jr. blends indie rock with an Austin and Texas twist. It’s indie music powered by chords and melodies that you imagine being played at dusk in your cool friend’s backyard with a chain link fence and an oak tree in the background. It sounds like Hole In the Wall.
Their latest single “Sidewinder” is both a perfect metaphor for that illustration and a perfect lead-in to their upcoming Ghosts EP. Like the album, “Sidewinder” is about disconnect and things slipping away…or side-slithering away. Lamenting the loss of the “Piscies Queen,” we’re right alongside Taine as he grapples with what went wrong, his current state, and the leaden question of what to do with those feelings and where to go next.
“Sidewinder” is out now. The Ghosts EP is out in November. You can see Russell Taine, Jr. Thursday, September 4th at Hole In the Wall with Small Engine Fire.
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