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Big Man on the TV

from Way Out West by KING ROPES

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    Way Out West, King Ropes’ fourth album, is full of open spaces and jagged edges—from “A Loser and a Jerk,” with its brooding feedback moans, to the cathartic opener “Big Man on the TV,” with its mangled arpeggios and visions of a broke rodeo flailing amidst “the great wide open.” Guitars scrape and whine. Amps rumble. Rickety pianos rattle in and out of tune. Like the Treasure State itself, nothing is too refined. Perched uneasily between indie, desert rock, and ragged americana, it’s the band’s finest record yet. At the center of it all is Dave Hollier, a gifted songwriter at the top of his game, surveying a land haunted by doomed relationships and hypocrite ideologues in his odd, quivering voice.

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lyrics

straight up
jerk down
dirt broke rodeo the great wide open
hunkered down
pushing string
double grinner bloodknot and a quick fix dripper
this was going to be a lovesong
double down
good money after bad
we can see how well this worked out the first time
here we go
we’ve seen it all before
the big man on the tv telling us we’re idiots
this was going to be a love song
I’ve been thinking about getting myself right back beside you
I’m thinking maybe you’ve been thinking about that too
throw a smile like the great wide sky and laugh and offer me a purse beer hanging in the parking lot with Jimi Jeff and Ali and that crew
this was going to be a love song
this was going to be a love song
this was going to be a love song
it’s getting closer but we're not there we’re not there yet
cowgirl mouth
woebegone saddle club
the big man on the tv telling us we’re idiots the big man on the tv telling us we’re idiots

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from Way Out West, track released June 1, 2021

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KING ROPES Bozeman, montana

When Dave Hollier spins records at a party, he plays stuff that’s all over the map. The Meters, The Knife, Boston, Bowie, Buck Owens. It could go very wrong. But it doesn’t. Finding the thread that leads from The Cars to The Beastie Boys to Van Halen to Prayers, he tells a long, beautiful, cross-cultural, multi-generational story. Hollier’s band King Ropes is doing much the same thing. ... more

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