Boston folk-psych-pop outfit Quilt are set to release a new album next month. Entitled Plaza, the record will be the band’s third and is promised to be their strongest collection of songs yet. To whet our collective appetites, Quilt have released two songs from the record, both of which make us excited for the whole album.
‘Eliot St.’ is a sunny slice of unflustered pop, quietly confident and loose-limbed, it leans on strings and harmonies in ways reminiscent of some of pop’s all-time greats. The lyrics however are less positive, mourning the general reluctance or inability to form tight, lasting bonds with others.
Following a similar pattern, ‘Roller’ is fronted by Anna Fox Rochinski and misleadingly bright and peppy, the pop sensibilities decorating a song that’s really about loneliness, frustration and self-enforced isolation. The title refers to a term that Rochinski describes as a noun for someone who feels “a sensation that lies somewhere between claiming strength for yourself but also hiding to protect yourself from the human bullsh*t of the world.”
Plaza will be releases on the 26th February on Mexican Summer. and you can pre-order it now on CD or vinyl, and first 250 orders get a limited edition cassette. 
Photo by Daniel Dorsa, cover art by Ken Price