Ahead of starting their US tour this week, Free Throw have just released the deluxe version of their latest album, ‘Moments Before The Wind’ via Wax Bodega. The album features four brand new tracks, including new single “Phoenix Down”
“We are super excited to bring you all the Moments Before the Wind Deluxe Edition! It includes four tracks that were all recorded during the same sessions as the album. We liked these tracks a lot and for them not to see the light of day would have been sad. We hope you enjoy them!” says Free Throw’s vocalist Cory Castro.
The emotional architecture of the album might be abstract, but the stories at its centre – the heart of Free Throw’s music for more than a decade – are disarmingly real and inspired by the anime of the same name and stuffed with dextrous Midwest emo guitar and rough-hewn punk tempos.
Having worked hard for many years and enjoyed global tours with the likes of Hot Mulligan and New Found Glory and slots at Slam Dunk, Riot Fest, and The Fest. Every milestone has pushed Free Throw ahead, but on their sixth LP, Moments Before The Wind, that constant charge gradually slows, suspended mid-step, mid-thought, mid-life.
“The record has this theme of liminality – not just as a place, but in your mind,” Free Throw’s vocalist/guitarist Cory Castro explains. “It’s like being stuck in a doorframe or a long hallway that never ends.”
Free Throw have once again returned to longtime producer Brett Romnes (Hot Mulligan, The Movielife) for this record. Together, they wrote and recorded the album in two sessions on either side of the band’s touring. Stepping away between sessions gave them perspective; when they returned to the studio, they heard everything with fresh ears. At the same time, Romnes challenged them to trust their instincts, resulting in spontaneous sonic breakthroughs:
In all, the record chronicles a period of intense personal upheaval in Castro’s life: the dissolution of a long-term relationship and attempts to move on, the slow realisation that what he’d lost was actually what he truly wanted and, ultimately, the life-altering moment of finding out midway through recording that he was going to be a father. The closing track, “The Waters Of Life,” written in the afterglow of that news, becomes the push that finally shoves him through the doorway into something new.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s cult novel House of Leaves, Moments Before The Wind references a passage that compares life to fragile structures on the verge of being blown apart and rearranged into something unrecognisable. It’s artwork mirrors that feeling: a massive crystal head cracked open, its interior filled with surreal, Dalí-esque rooms and corridors that echo the “backrooms” of the mind Castro kept returning to while writing lyrics
Free Throw will be touring North America on a co-headline tour with Microwave which starts this week- full dates are below:
Co-headline with Microwave
FREE THROW
MICROWAVE
Direct: Carly Cosgrove
Rotating: Flycatcher, Kerosene Heights, Puddlesplasher
10/09 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
10/10 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre
10/11 Birmingham, AL Furnace Fest
10/13 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
10/14 Kansas City, MO The Truman
10/16 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
10/17 Taos, NM The Mothership
10/19 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
10/22 Pomona, CA Glasshouse
10/23 Fresno, CA Tioga-Sequoia Brewing
10/24 Reno, NV Cargo Concert Hall
10/26 Vancouver, BC The Pearl
10/28 Calgary, AB Palace Theatre
10/29 Edmonton, AB Pawn Shop Live
10/31 Winnipeg, MB Park Theatre
11/01 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity
11/02 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
11/03 Lansing, MI Grewal Hall
11/04 Pittsburgh, PA Roxian
11/06 Worcester, MA Palladium
11/07 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
11/08 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
11/10 Virginia Beach, VA Elevation 27
11/11 Wilmington, DE The Queen
11/12 Greensboro, NC The Pyrle
FESTIVALS/ONE OFF
11/01 Sacramento, CA Aftershock Festival
11/16 Orlando, FL Warped Tour
Moments Before The Wind Tour Part 2
AUS/ASIA
01/14 Hong Kong, China — MoM Livehouse
01/15 Manila, Philippines — Aster Events Place
01/17 Bangkok, Thailand — Mr. Fox Livehouse
01/20 Singapore — Room 526
01/23 Brisbane, QLD — The Triffid
01/24 Newcastle, NSW — Hamilton Station Hotel
01/25 Sydney, NSW — Factory Theatre
01/27 Wollongong, NSW — Dicey Rileys
01/28 Melbourne, VIC — 170 Russell
01/29 Adelaide, SA — Lion Arts Factory
01/30 Perth, WA — Amplifier Bar
TICKETS HERE
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