The Seattle-born rock band Naked Giants could cut a mountain down in half with all of its buzzy force. The trio, which has toured the world and backed Car Seat Headrest, another Pacific Northwest favorite, in venues like New York’s Madison Square Garden, is one of the rising groups from a region that knows rock music inside and out.
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And today (August 7), American Songwriter is premiering the newest offering from Naked Giants, “Bad Guys Win,” a rollicking track about the realization that maybe it’s not the good guys who finish first at the end of the story—that perhaps we are all living in the dream of a nefarious antagonist. Fingers crossed that’s not the case, but in the new track the group presents a compelling case.
“‘Bad Guys Win’ is a 2020s pop-rock epic about feeling powerless to write our own life stories, destined to let the bad guys win” vocalist/guitarist Grant Mullen tells American Songwriter. “That isn’t the end of the story, though. We all have a story to tell, and it’s up to each of us to tell it—no one else can. The bad guys might be real, imagined, or parts of each of us that we would rather be rid of, and ‘Bad Guys Win’ is our anthem about overcoming them and being true to who we really are.”
New Album Arrives in October
The new single comes ahead of the band’s upcoming LP Shine Away, which is due out October 4. Comprised of Mullen, bassist/vocalist Gianni Aiello, and drummer Henry LaVallee, the band has previously released the albums S.L.U.F.F. in 2018 and The Shadow in 2020. The new record is self-reflective and marks a step into full-fledged adulthood for the members, who formed Naked Giants a decade ago when they were each 18.
Since then, the band has seen the world and achieved great indie rock success. Fans can check out the new tune, which is like a modern classic rock hit, here below. And be on the lookout for the new album, which features the already-released song “Apartment 3,” out later this fall.
Shine Away Track List
1. Apartment 3
2. Missed Out
3. Bad Guys Win
4. Half Full Cups
5. Dissolve
6. Oh Michael
7. Did I Just Die
8. Case of the Bastards
9. Shine Away
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