AWAY TEAM

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Nashville indie scrappers Shell Of A Shell caught our attention with “Knock,” the first single from their upcoming album 'Away Team.' Turns out the title track is good too. 'Away Team' shows that the band’s warm, combustible lo-fi rock also works well when it’s slowed down and stretched out. The song starts in a slow burn and erupts loudly in the first two minutes and continues to transform from there. Shell of a Shell is perhaps the most personal venture of frontman Chappy Hull, who also plays in the delightfully raucous bands Pile and Gnarwhal. 'Away Team' will undoubtedly flex Hull’s introspective songwriting instincts. “Away Team,” for example, is a devastating glimmer 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 in Heaven’s Gate having doubts before the day they were supposed to go on the comet. The away team was what they called the group in the cult that was supposed to be reborn on Hale-Bopp while others stayed behind and were to have another chance later in life. When I heard about Heaven’s Gate, it was hard for me to not imagine myself in that tragic scenario and what would be going through my head, brainwashed or not.”