When Izzie Clark and E. Scarlett Levinson met at The Knockout in San Francisco, the 2 musicians instantly felt a artistic synergy.
“We had been hanging out within the picture sales space, and we had been identical to, ‘We must always begin a band. I really feel this vibe,” Clark, the band’s guitarist and vocalist, stated.
“I nonetheless have the images from the picture sales space,” bassist and vocalist Levinson provides.
Collectively as chokecherry, Clark and Levinson make hovering different rock that pulls from grunge, surf punk and dream pop.
Living proof: “Goldmine” — the primary single from chokecherry’s debut album Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls — begins with an entrancing Cocteau Twins-like riff from Clark.
That guitar lead, together with Levinson’s bassline, initially sprung from recording classes for the band’s 2024 EP Messy Star.
“It ended up being this brief little factor that we by no means actually completed till January of this yr,” Clark stated, “So it turned the primary actual observe of the album.”
Impressed by King Krule, Frou Frou and Seashore Home (the tune itself is blended by Chris Coady, who labored on a few of Seashore Home’s most beloved albums), “Goldmine” is a lush, moody exploration right into a breakup with pop hooks that ship wistfulness in all of its agonizing magnificence.
A failed relationship isn’t the one type of loss chokecherry examines on Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls.
“We have now numerous songs about heartbreak that are interpersonal,” Levinson stated. “Now, this album actually expands on that. It’s not nearly interpersonal heartbreak, however heartbreak over the state of the world, over the lack of childhood, all kinds of various types of time passing and grief.
“It’s an album that helped us each course of numerous issues in our lives that we had been scuffling with a lot on the time that we had been making it,” Levinson stated.
chokecherry’s debut album Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls is out Nov. 14. The band is performing their document launch present at Backside of the Hill in San Francisco on Nov. 14.
