(Cover art by Noah Topliff)
It's been about a year since we've heard from Dad Bod in a full-band capacity. The waning days of winter 2020 saw the release of "Spirits," the band's second single, and the final shows any of us would play or attend for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, the band managed to have a productive summer — July saw the release of Precursor, a stripped-back EP of songs reconstructed by Callie Marino and Wilson Zellar. The EP combined songs familiar from Dad Bod's live set and newer material. One of those new songs was opener "4/9." Eight months later, we're finally hearing that song in its new, fleshed-out form.
Dad Bod is leaning wholeheartedly into their holy melancholy on "4/9." The sonic differences are what will likely first catch your ear, but the similarities are where the band shines. Rather than be completely reinvented, the spectral beauty of the original is filtered through a prism; it is transformed without altering the core DNA. Hints of country mix with blissed-out shoegaze and ambience. The soundscape mesa of guitar arpeggios and reverb is crafted expertly to match Marino's cloudbursting vocals.
While "4/9" was a perfect intro to Precursor, it's now a perfect intro to a new era of Dad Bod, an era during which they have signed to No Sleep Records. Hopefully, this means that the long-awaited album is on the way.
Dad Bod is Callie Marino (songwriting/vocals/guitar), Wilson Zellar (guitar/bass/vocals), Noah Topliff (guitar), and Alex Gray (drums). "4/9" was also produced, mixed, and mastered by Zellar. Listen to and/or buy "4/9" below.
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