AWAY TEAM

Description

Nashville indie rockers Shell Of A Shell caught attention with “Knock,” the first single from their upcoming album Away Team. It turns out the title track is good too. Away Team shows that the band’s warm, combustible lo-fi rock works well when it’s slowed down and stretched out as well. The song starts in a slow blast and erupts noisily within the first two minutes, continuing to transform from there. Shell of a Shell may be the most personal outlet of frontman Chappy Hull, who also plays in the delightfully ragged bands Pile and Gnarwhal. Away Team will no doubt flex Hull’s introspective songwriting instincts. Away Team, for example, is a devastating glow of pre-apocalyptic anxieties that are certainly not exclusive to cult members at this point. In Paste magazine, band member Chappy Hull explained the subject of the title track: This one is about a fictional woman at Heaven's Gate having doubts before the day they were supposed to go to the comet. The away team was what they called the cult group that was supposed to be reborn on Hale-Bopp while others stayed behind and were going to get another chance later in life. When I heard about Heaven's Gate, it was hard for me not to imagine myself in that tragic scenario and what would go through my head, brainwashed or not.