(Cover art by Taylor Adams)
Last Friday, Atlanta math-punk trio Champagne Colored Cars released the lead single for their forthcoming debut Tourism, an exciting foray into new sonic territory for the band. The shining Midwest emo they played with on 2017's EP comes into focus on "Fever Dream: Season 3."
Inspired by tourmates like New Jersey's Invalids, the band started working on the songs that would end up on Tourism almost immediately after releasing their 2018 split with Sleepy Limbs. "We stopped trying to worry about fitting into a specific subgenre or anything like that, which honestly helped our ideas flow a lot smoother and easily," said vocalist/guitarist Tyler Perkins. The songs started coming together quickly, but CCC took their time to settle into each one. Nathan Hardy, guitarist/vocalist of Microwave, came on board to engineer the record, and Jon "Steel Wolf" Markson of Taking Meds mixed it.
"Fever Dream: Season 3" is rare in that the title is quite literal, especially compared to songs like "New York Sewer Gator." According to Perkins, "lyrically it [came from an] extremely vivid dream I had where the end of the world is happening in a super cinematic way." The "season 3" addendum references how the dream "felt like an HBO show in [Perkins'] head," in addition to the long period of time it took for the song to get to where it currently is.
CCC captures the anthemic swell of bands like Coheed & Cambria while still finding plenty of room for blazing twinkle riffs. "Fever Dream" is a two-and-a-half minute crescendo, growing more frantic and furious with each passing second. Perkins' screams of "they're turning us back into dust" are terrifying, an eye-widening moment that truly evokes the apocalypse detailed in his lyrics.
Tourism is out Dec. 4th via Choke Artist and Old Press Records. Listen to our full interview with Champagne Colored Cars below.
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