The Hold Steady’s most classic tracks are driving rock songs with piano breaks. Just like the best work of artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. The band’s new single Family Farm has all of the characteristics of such a classic. It’s a stomping rocker of the rousing kind, with horns as an added bonus. Up-tempo, dynamic, and with a chorus full of shout-along potential. No doubt, this will be fun to play (and hear) live.

Family Farm is the first single off The Hold Steady’s next album Open Door Policy, out on 19 February 2021. It was written and almost entirely recorded before the pandemic started. Yet the songs explore power, wealth, mental health, technology, capitalism, consumerism, and survival; issues which have compounded in 2020.

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.