FADER TV: Open Bar With Bryan Webb Of Constantines
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Constantines are one of those bands that we can’t really deny enjoying when we are trying to walk in a straight line down the street or speak clearly, or even to a lesser extent, when we get off work. Basically they make us feel like getting really drunk and talking to a stranger about our problems which weirdly makes us want to listen to them even more. So, after playing their new album Kensington Heights (out now) on the regular, we decided to hit them up about playing for us at Heathers. We weren’t sure what we were going to get, but when lead singer Bryan Webb ran through a couple softly-sung acoustic songs on what felt like the first sunny afternoon in New York since 2000-never, we were smiling pretty heavily while enjoying an afternoon beer.
Video: Constantines, “Hard Feelings”
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What’s cool about Constantines is that they sound like they have been living under a bar stool for like three months. “Hard Feelings” is the first single from Kensington Heights, as propulsive and unsettling as the band has ever been, scratchy-voiced and barely able to keep up with their own frantic guitars. Is it bad that every time we see buildings and an ominous looking sky we think of the end of Ghostbusters? The dudes look larger than life, shredding so hard that the camera shakes the flimsy cardboard buildings around them, which actually is not shredding that hard, but you know what we’re getting at.
