Photo: Jason Allison
MARKET JUNCTION UNVEILS NEW SINGLE “A STONE WILL SINK”
SHARES NEW VIDEO “WESTERN COAST” VIA FARCE THE MUSIC
BURNING BRIDGES LP SET FOR RELEASE ON AUGUST 7TH
Houston, Texas’ own Market Junction released new single “A Stone Will Sink” a track from their forthcoming album Burning Bridges, due out August 7th. The band also shared a new video for album track “Western Coast” this week. “If a heart has loved, it has been broken," says frontman Matt Parrish of “A Stone Will Sink.” "This is old news, yet we speak of love with a romantic grandeur that implies we are oblivious to the inevitable. Just as we expect a stone to sink, we should expect a heart to break. It’s what hearts do.”
LISTEN: “A STONE WILL SINK”
“Market Junction plays smooth, thoughtful country folk that’s sure to appeal to fans of John Baumann, Adam Hood, and Jason Eady,” says Farce The Music, who premiered the band’s new video “The Western Coast,” calling the song “a wistful tune with beautiful, understated harmonies and a pointed loneliness that saves its sharpest arrows for the final lines.” “You can change the scene, chase a dream, leave your hometown, put a couple thousand miles on your old truck, and even put down new roots...but you can’t outrun a heartache,” adds Parrish. “Even a prize fighter runs out of gas in the later rounds. Old habits are hard to break, so just plan on waiting them out.”
WATCH: “WESTERN COAST”
The electrifying combination of golden-voiced frontman Parrish and fretboard wizard Justin Lofton are a rock-solid foundation for the band, their folk-infused alt-country style has resulted in some of the most beautiful music in the current landscape. Burning Bridges was forged in the midst of the members' personal tribulations - changing direction in the middle of recording, a trip to the emergency room, a divorce, the births of children, a hard drive crash costing weeks worth of work, releasing a record in the middle of a global pandemic. The band was still able to create magic in the midst of the struggle. “A Stone Will Sink” and “Western Coast” follow album singles “Out Of Love,” and “Nebraska.”
LISTEN: “OUT OF LOVE”
LISTEN: “NEBRASKA”
WATCH: "NEBRASKA"
Parrish and Lofton, both award-winning songwriters, set out on a journey to create the kind of music they not only loved to listen to but music that they loved to play. Since those early days, the band expanded its lineup to include Taylor Hilyard on bass guitar and Michael Blattel on drums, sharing stages with Cory Morrow, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jack Ingram, Radney Foster and more. Their sound is rooted in place and time, but transcends both. Each of the 10 tracks on Burning Bridges tell one story - one of a young man learning about love and its consequences. Sometimes the heartbreak spurs the traveling, and other times the traveling is the cause of the heartbreak. Either way, Burning Bridges will break your heart in the best kind of way, and have you reaching for the keys.
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