Bicentennial Drug Lord - BDL EP (vinyl)

Based in Milwaukee, WI, Bicentennial Drug Lord was formed when longtime friends John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Soda, Maki, Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights) needed a side project where, as Weatherhead puts it, “we could play and record the sad-sack country songs we wrote and couldn’t play in our main bands.” BDL’s debut record The First Hit Is Free crystallized a Minneapolis winter with music that could thaw even the iciest heart. FOR ITS NEW RELEASE, THE 6-SONG EP BDL, the band got together during a long, muggy summer to record the songs in a cottage outside of Richmond, VA. Emerging from a weekend writing session at a nearby horse farm where Daniels was living, the new songs reflect a fresh collaborative approach to songwriting and a shift away from the country focus of their debut. BDL gets the details right. Big choruses, subtle songwriting, indie pop in places with a dose of 70’s rock. Summer’s coming down.