The Morning After

One more, before I pop the blog for the long weekend. The Bourgeois are from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I saw the song title for their song “Summer of George” and had to hit play.

Love the dark, moody, heavy guitar driven track. Some fine hard modern rock that leans on grunge. Reminds me of the kind of music I grew up with which makes sense as the music was produced and mixed by guys that have worked with The Smashing Pumpkins and Placebo.

Here’s a quick little bio form their press:

Zach Mobley and Ty Clark grew up in the bowels of rural Oklahoma and dealt with the oppression of the Bible-Belt in different ways.  Zach (guitar/vocals) spent most of his adolescence holed up listening to punk rock and plotting his escape.  Ty (drums) also took solace in music but fell victim to the opioid epidemic that plagued his community.

After a stint in one of the state’s many overcrowded and underfunded prisons, Ty reclaimed control of his life and responded to an ad placed by Zach.  The two quickly realized they shared similar tastes in music and a similar distaste for the hypocrisy surrounding them.  Another small town pariah, Vance Young (bass), was added later to complete the lineup.

The band says this about the song, “a dark look at how the hope and optimism that accompany summer can quickly be replaced by laziness and apathy.”

Go with yourself.