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Ike Reilly to release new album,\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>, on May 18th<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Libertyville, IL indie-rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly is set to release his seventh studio album,\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>, on CD and digital formats on May 18, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music. (A vinyl version will be released later this year.) Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking\u00a0Salesmen and Racists<\/em>, Reilly has been making punk\/folk\/blues influenced rock \u2019n\u2019 roll records that lean heavily on stories of outsiders with keen details and broad strokes that insinuate a crack in the American dream.\u00a0Reilly\u2019s band, The Assassination, has been called one of the best live bands in America, and the body of recorded work they\u2019ve turned out has been poetic, rebellious, wholly original, and critically acclaimed.<\/p>\n Still, Reilly and co-producer\u00a0Phil Karnats (Secret Machines, Tripping Daisy, Polyphonic Spree) felt that Reilly\u2019s best takes had never been recorded. The lucidity and rhythm of Reilly\u2019s\u00a0performances that Karnats had witnessed in hotel rooms, backstage, and on tour buses had never been captured.\u00a0\u201cI wanted to create a setting where Ike could sing and play guitar at the same time, with the band in the same room… no headphones and minimal isolation,\u201d says Karnats. \u201cThere’s always been a freshness to playing the songs together that’s hard to harness when recording in the more common, modern, sense where you do rhythm tracks first, then overdubs and vocals last. This time, Ike did his thing and we developed the arrangements based on his vocal approach, cadence, phrasing, intensity and all that. I think, in the end, we ended up with some killer songs that have a strangely unique, slightly off-center, vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining Reilly (vocals, guitar, harp) and Karnats (guitar) in the studio were Peter Cimbalo (bass, percussion), Dave Cottini (drums, percussion, vocals), and Adam Krier (guitar, keyboards, vocals). From the apocalyptic playfulness of \u201cMissile Site,\u201d to the weary let\u2019s-get-it-on abandon of \u201cDon\u2019t Turn Your Back on Friday Night,\u201d to the escapist urgency of \u201cBoltcutter Again,\u201d to the gnarly, percolating groove drip of \u201cClean Blood Blues,\u201d\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>\u00a0shows how Reilly has landed himself squarely in the raw, emotional zeitgeist of the times. \u201cChasing that timeless feel in a time like 2018 can be a tall order but we did it,\u201d Reilly admits. \u201cNobody sounds like this\u2026 musically or sonically.\u00a0It\u2019s f*cking authentic. I never made a record before that sounds like this.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, this collection of succinct, tight-but-loose songs reflects the continuing evolution of Reilly\u2019s ever-visceral wordsmithing, as married with a Murderer\u2019s Row of backing tracks forged out of the intuitive interplay of his longstanding Assassination bandmates, not to mention the input of a few special guests, too, including guitarist Tommy O\u2019Donnell, pianist Ed Tinley, and saxophonists Mars Williams and Bill Overton, as well as family legacies Mickey Reilly on vocals and Peter John Cimbalo on drums.<\/p>\n One\u00a0Crooked Love\u00a0<\/em>song that Reilly feels is the lynchpin to the record is \u201cBeen Let Down,\u201d which moves from shuffle to backstab in the blip of a heartbeat. The album\u2019s opener, \u201cLivin\u2019 in the Wrong Time,\u201d also evokes a certain kind of \u201creal feel,\u201d with a cool, steely tone and a psychotically festive sonic twist during its ear-grabbing solo section.\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>\u00a0shares the timeless quality that records that stand the test of time are able to evoke. \u201cI\u2019ve always been trying to get that timeless sense all along, but I think this record actually does do that,\u201d Reilly concedes. \u201cI know I\u2019ve fallen into the modern trap a couple of times in my recordings and with some of my lyrics maybe being a little too in the moment at times, but I hope I\u2019ve been able to achieve something else with the direction and attitude of this one.\u201d<\/p>\n Walking that fine line between being topical and universal is another goal Reilly wanted to attain with this album.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not sure if all the songs reflect what\u2019s going on right now,\u201d Reilly says. \u201cThe songs were written under the shadow of all of that, but most people still just need and want love, affection, sex, and\u00a0the simple pleasures of human contact. I have optimism for society and for its survival,\u00a0though I am pretty fatalistic in the sense of, \u2018This is what it is. It\u2019s right here, it\u2019s right now, and this is it.\u2019 That can either drive you crazy or motivate you to squeeze every last drop out of it, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n Press praise for Reilly\u2019s music has been extensive over the years.\u00a0Chicago Magazine<\/em>\u00a0praised Reilly\u2019s \u201coutlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor,\u201d\u00a0Cincinnati City Beat\u00a0<\/em>lauded the \u201cscuffed and noir-ish tales of modern life. …fusing dirty R&B grooves into his swaggering Pop\/Roots sound… Ike Reilly\u2019s most amazing accomplishment\u2026 is that every new album is his best ever and yet the new one in no way ever diminishes the greatness of his existing catalog.\u201d\u00a0Stereo Subversion<\/em>\u00a0called Reilly a \u201cgenre-bending journeyman\u201d and a \u201crough-around-the-edges Americana troubadour.\u201d\u00a0 And\u00a0The Big Takeover<\/em>\u00a0appreciated Reilly\u2019s \u201cwordy but focused storytelling in his lyrics, his rock & roll sneer and his rough-edged folk rock sound.\u201d<\/p>\n Minneapolis City Pages<\/em>\u00a0said, \u201cEqual parts punk rocker, poet, and blue-collar barfly, Reilly’s stories are as bizarre and filthy and honest and pure as the people who come out to his shows. His songs reach out and grab people, shake them by the collars, make them jump up and down.\u201d\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0admired that Ike \u201cmerges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop\u2019s vocal cadences and rhythmic drive.\u201d\u00a0Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>\u00a0enjoyed his \u201cstreet-poet swagger, audacious humor, and industrial-strength hooks.\u201d\u00a0PopMatters.com\u00a0<\/em>called him \u201cthe best songwriter in America\u2026 Hilarious, unsettling, raw\u2026 but mostly just rocking.\u201d\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0hailed Reilly as \u201cnever less than original\u2026 ferociously intelligent\u2026 always worth listening to.\u201d And\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/em>described Reilly\u2019s music as \u201c\u2026barroom rock narrated by a wiseguy who\u2019s as comfortable regaling PhDs and poets as he is pimps and porn stars.\u201d<\/p>\n Reilly plans to tour in support of\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>\u00a0and has already been testing the songs live with band shows in March in the Midwest. A solo show in New York City at Rockwood Music Hall on March 31st is also on the itinerary, and an album preview show in his hometown of Libertyville, IL is scheduled to take place on April 14th at Diamond City Studio (tickets:\u00a0https:\/\/crookedlove.brownpapertickets.com\/<\/a>). Also planned are residencies in May at the Ice House in Minneapolis and the Old Town School of Folk in Chicago.\u00a0 Details about the residencies and additional tour dates will be announced soon.<\/p>\n <\/strong>Ike Reilly online:<\/b> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2018 Ike Reilly to release new album,\u00a0Crooked Love, on May 18th \u201cIke Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people\u2014storytelling, melody, rage, laughter\u2014are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever … <\/p>\n
\n\u201cIke Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people\u2014storytelling, melody, rage, laughter\u2014are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever seen. One of the best touring acts in the country, Reilly’s band takes it as a personal challenge to upend and amaze every room they play in.\u201d \u2013 David Carr, New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n
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