RILEY! – have released their new EP “To Live And Die In The American South” + the single “73 Summers”

SOUTH TEXAS, USA- RILEY! have released their new EP “To Live And Die In The American South” out now, via Pure Noise Records.

The band have released the emotive “73 Summers” – a tribute to the passing of a loved one.

“This is a tough one to talk about. I wrote this song around the 10-year mark of my grandfather’s passing.” says Ryan Bluhm. “Being young and starting college and just generally being busy all the time with real life starting, I didn’t notice anything wrong, and I guess I’m not sure if anyone really did. Depression is a quiet killer. When he took his own life, I had no understanding of how to process going forward. He helped raise me after all. Growing up with a single mom, he almost felt like my father, too. Most of this song surrounds all the questions I wish I could ask now, even if they’re not anything that can realistically be answered at all. Without going into more of a trauma dump than this already has been, this song just felt right as a closer on a record. A lot of the music was meticulously decided for that purpose: the soft, lulling beginning that builds up into a massive wall of sound that fades out into nonexistence. The piano note that repeats over and over at the end of the song was meant to almost emulate a heartbeat that just abruptly quits, which also signifies the record coming to an end.”

To Live And Die In The American South EP 
Roll For Initiative
Another Round Of Radical ‘Ritas, Please (Ft Tades Sanville /Hot Mulligan)
Two Bucks (Ft Eric Egan)
Backseat Bartender (Ft Gabe Wood)
73 Summers

Buy here and stream here.