Charleston retro rock outfit The Explorers Club will be releasing the follow up to their 2008 harmony fueled album Freedom Wind in early 2012. The upcoming LP will be titled Grand Hotel and is also heavily influenced by the music of the 1960’s like their previous release.
With so many bands out there these days wearing their early music influences on their sleeve, no one is more true to the music than The Explorers Club. They made that obvious channeling Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys on Freedom Wind and only plan to expand on that with Grand Hotel.
Just as exciting as the announcement of the new record is the announcement of who is mixing the new LP. Mark Linett, who just finished the mixing of The Beach Boys SMiLE album is currently focused on Grand Hotel. In the past he has also worked with Brian Wilson (solo), Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, just to name a few.
In advance of the new LP, The Explorers Club have three EP suites planned to tide us over until next year.
- The “Californian Suite” will feature the Burt Bacharach standard, “Walk On By,” along with two Explorers Club originals (“Weight Of The World and “Summer Days, Summer Nights”).
- The “Carolinian Suite” reprises the Classics IV hit, “Stormy,” along with originals “Sweet Delights” and “It’s No Use.”
- The “New Yorker Suite” will feature the Explorers Club’s take on the Vanity Fare opus, “Hitchin’ A Ride,” and it will be tied to “Anticipatin’” and “Run, Run, Run,” the latter of which will later be released to radio as the lead track from “Grand Hotel.”
