The Hard Quartet have shared a new song, “Our Hometown Boy.” It is the third single from the self-titled debut of the new band comprising Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus with Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, Dirty Three’s Jim White, and the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly—the last of whom takes lead vocals on the track. Watch the new song’s video below.
Sweeney said, in a press release, that the song “shows why Jim White, Steve Malkmus, and I are so stoked to be in a band with Emmett Kelly. It’s, like, fucked up how good Emmett is at music.”
Kelly added, “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ the Hard Quartet mythologizes the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks like peering out the window of a bar to a blizzard. Adventures in the skin trade. On the run and hitting the road. The green grass of home.”
“Our Hometown Boy” follows debut single “Earth Hater” and the Sweeney-led “Rio’s Song,” which came with a Rolling Stones–homage music video filled with Easter Eggs.
The Hard Quartet is out October 4, on Matador, and the band plays its first shows the following week.
