Bailen with Sway Wild
This event is in the past
Sunday, March 26, 2023, 8 pm
Tractor Tavern
Ballard (Seattle)
This is an in-person event
$20
21+
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Tired Hearts, the new album from risingindie-poppowertrio,BAILEN,deliversa dazzling set of songsthatnavigates the space between the heart’s expectation and the head’s sober reality.New York basedsiblings, Daniel, David, and Julia’ssecond full-length album for Fantasybeats with empathy,vulnerability, and resolve.At timesintricate and playful,measured andelaborate,the12originalsongs onTired Heartswrestle withanuncertain futurewhereethics andmorality—bothcommunal and personal—seem to be constantlyshifting.Locatingone’scompassamidstthe chaos—aworld-wide pandemic,toxicsocial mediaculture,economicinsecurityand politicalturbulence—isat theLP’score.Producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail)who,along with the band,co-producedTiredHearts,helped to expandBAILEN’sambition beyond what they initially envisioned.“We’d played thelast recordlivea hundred times before recording it, so wetracked a lot of it live,” Daniel explains. “With Brad, we took a collagist’s approach. It freed us up to explore and be sonically adventurous.”