40 Watt Sun release new song ‘Astoria’

40 WATT SUN have released a brand new song!

The new song, titled Astoria, is taken from the project’s (helmed by Patrick Walker) upcoming new album, Little Weight, which is scheduled to be released in September this year, via walker‘s own label Fisher’s Folly.

Speaking about the new song, Patrick Walker shares, “I was maybe four days into my stay in Cornwall. I had been lying awake since 3am, and at about 5am, I finally got up, went downstairs, and made a drink. I sat down, retuned my guitar to something new, and played these three chords. The vocal melody and the lyrics to the first verse were improvised in the moment.

When we rehearsed it as a band, I told Roland I had in mind something like Pino Palladino, or some of what John Giblin did on John Martyn‘s Grace and Danger, or Tony Levin‘s playing on Joan Armatrading‘s The Weakness In Me. So we listened to some of these records and then he wrote that bass part. He recorded it on a fretless. Broadly, it’s a song about a time I was staying in Queens, NY, and one night in Brooklyn when I stood looking out over the East River.”

Listen to Astoria here: 

Little Weight is set for release on September 6th via Fisher’s Folly. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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