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'Strangers In A Nightclub' marks Loose Buttons' return to recorded music for the first time since the release of their breakout 2017 EP 'Sundays', a self-released four-song collection that helped the band earn critical praise and play larger venues than ever, including a sold-out show at New York’s Rough Trade. Produced by Gus Oberg (The Strokes, The Virgins, Public Access TV), 'Strangers' is centered on lead singer Eric Nizgretsky's vivid daydreams about the 'Only In New York' type of characters you might see on your average Monday night out.
A four-piece of native New Yorkers, the members of Loose Buttons came of age during the city’s early 00’s indie rock renaissance, on the heels of local heroes like The Strokes, The Walkmen and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rising to national prominence. After releasing ‘Sundays’ in February of 2017, Loose Buttons has been met with critical praise that would do justice by their Lower East Side predecessors. Billboard has described the band’s sound as “a blend of new wave and pop all their own” while Consequence of Sound dubbed them “irresistibly sincere.” VICE hailed the group as a “garage-rock-pop good time” and Nylon is “absolutely in love with Loose Buttons’ scuzzed-out indie sound.”
While Loose Buttons’ current lineup didn’t form very long before 'Sundays', each of the four members grew up deeply entrenched in the New York music community, playing in bands and putting on shows from their earliest teenage years. Lead singer Eric Nizgretsky and guitarist Zachary Kantor are lifelong friends who wrote their first songs together at 11 years old, with Nizgretsky’s randomly-assigned college roommate Manny Silverstein (bass) and their former battle of the bands rival Adam Holtzberg (drums) rounding out the group along the way.
lyrics
Sporting a redcoat with his right hand stamped
All through the night he is pounding out his theme song
In the search for something better lately
Selling sinking ships and brakeless cars to all the weekend hoppers
Should I say something?
Showed up to the nightclub on a Space Age train
Pomade in his hair and grease on his dead leg
Winning races, didn’t even bother running
Still a shoulder for the friends of all the sunken children
Step inside the circle
Don’t know him, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
Behind the counter she's been mixing and fidgeting the thoughts out of her hair
Venom spews from her snakeskin boots, a narcissistic guru in training
Sporting retro-future, she’s a talker
Dabbled in gothic erotica, you know
She can dine with his fetishes and have a feast
Near the head of a murdered deer
Step inside the circle
Don’t know her, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
It’s just my imagination
Strangers I'm creating
But I don’t really care to talk about
Strangers
Step inside the circle
Don’t know them, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
credits
released September 11, 2019
Recorded at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn, NY
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