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Hold The Door For Strangers
| When the going gets tough, Labrador are there to lift you up. On their sophomore album, Hold the Door for Strangers – produced by Kyle Gilbride (Swearin’, Waxahatchee) – the tenderly bruised alt-country quintet have crafted a collection of compassionate story songs. Patching together ragged indie rock performances with stately strings and electrified solos, the introspective narrators of the band’s cowboy ballads wear emotional scars like a sheriff’s gold star.
“A lot of these songs focus on hard-worn lessons dealing with empathy, or discovering the capacity to be considerate,” explains Labrador’s lead singer and guitarist Pat King. “There’s a lyric in the title track that says ‘we’re all standing tall without a leg to stand on.’ That’s basically the thesis statement of the record. No matter what you’re going through, someone is going through something worse.” To prove this point, King shares how Labrador began in the wake of an accident. In 2017, while cycling through his former home of Brooklyn, the guitarist crashed and severely injured his elbow. Fearing that he may never play again, King began physical therapy to regain the strength in his left arm. “After weeks of rehabbing, I walked to a Guitar Center,” he recalls. “It was sleeting out and the terrible weather felt prophetic. I decided to take control of my life again, so I... more released January 13, 2023
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