Baroness debuted second single March To the Sea from Yellow & Green mixtape
On Tuesday, June 12th, the rock band Baroness have debuted the second single titled "March To the Sea" off their third album Yellow & Green which is coming out July 17th. This album may become epic and can officially set them as alt-rockers. The double-album finds the group dabbling with funkier drum patterns, country rock and a whole lot of singing (as opposed to screaming). Some of this change has to do with frontman John Baizley quietly writing some of its songs while his infant daughter was sleeping but a lot of it has to do with the group simply wanting to see what they were actually capable of doing after touring relentlessly in support of 2008's metallic Blue Record.
"March To the Sea" is definitely a polished track, but it also contains no ingredients that were not used in similar proportions on Red or Blue: galloping tribal drums, acrobatic guitar work worthy of Built To Spill, frontman John Dyer Baizely’s muscular bellow, some spacy, reverb-y stuff, and a spiraling lead at the climax.
Fans who saw the band play a couple of its new songs on its recent tour with extreme metal ensemble Meshuggah and death metallers Decapitated saw firsthand how different their new music is, especially in contrast to their tourmates. Now Baroness are sharing those songs online. First, they released "Take My Bones Away," a song which resides on the generally more hard-rocking Yellow disc (compared to the lighter Green disc), and its catchy chorus and actually hummable verses sit easily with the band's newish Queens of the Stone Age-esque guitar approach. Other than the literal sentiment of the chorus and five-minute runtime, it's a pop song, and it has a great Queen-like guitar solo to boot. Hear Baroness' new track below.
"March To the Sea"
<iframe width="460" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kFjnpKt1tCA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'Yellow & Green' Track Listing:
Disc 1: (Yellow) 01. Yellow Theme 02. Take My Bones Away 03. March to the Sea 04. Little Things 05. Twinkler 06. Cocainium 07. Back Where I Belong 08. Sea Lungs 09. Eula
Disc 2: (Green) 01. Green Theme 02. Board Up the House 03. Mtns. (The Crown & Anchor) 04. Foolsong 05. Collapse 06. Psalms Alive 07. Stretchmarker 08. The Line Between 09. If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry