Taste Test: Charlie and the Rays go ‘Away for the Weekend’
The folk duo mourn the current state of the world on a smokey new ballad.
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The current sociopolitical bubble is hard to stomach. Most days, the evening news and social feeds are flooded with rage and countless, needless tragedies. Returning home from a tour in Montana, folk duo Charlie and the Rays were met with chatter about a protest that ended with police gassing the picket line. “Away for the Weekend” both raises their fists in agony and lets their tears fall down like a summer cloud burst, the pavement wiped clean of all of humanity’s pain. But the very next day, it’s soaked once more in caked blood and despair. “Well, I was away for the weekend / How did I not hear,” Rebecca Stobbe and Jordan Stobbe mourn the current state of affairs, their bodies drained of hope. Their harmonious coos tangle tenderly with amber guitar and swirl ’round and ’round until it all vanishes back into the dust.
“Away for the Weekend” is the first single from the band’s new EP, That’s Where You Were Born, out later this year.
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