KEVIN KRAUTER shares new single/video “Keep Falling In Love” from debut album, Toss Up, due 13th July on Bayonet Records

Alexa Viscius

KEVIN KRAUTER

Shares new video/single “Keep Falling In Love”

Song premiere on Beats1

Debut album, Toss Up due 13th July on Bayonet Records

Indiana’s Kevin Krauter today premiered his video for new song “Keep Falling In Love” via Gorilla vs. Bear, and the charming, carefree clip can also now be seen HERE. Of the clip, Krauter shares: “This video was created over the course of 2-3 weeks while my partner and I were visiting some close friends around the Midwest. The song is a love song dedicated to my partner as well as everyone in my life who has shown me love, many of whom are featured in this video.”

The song, which also debuted this morning via Beats1, is the second released from his forthcoming debut album, Toss Up — out 13th July 2018 in the UK via Bayonet Records — following the dreamy, richly melodic first single “Rollerskate.” Toss Up is now available for pre-order HERE.

‘Useful solitude’ is the phrase Krauter uses to describe Toss Up — both the conditions in which it was created and the prevailing theme of these nine iridescent indie-pop songs. In between tours, he spent long hours in his basement, guitars and vintage keyboards his only company, and tested out ideas, explored new sonic avenues, savored new sounds, and taught himself how to play a few instruments. The riffs and melodies became mantras, repeated back to himself until they became the rhythmically intricate, melodically bold, and emotionally complex songs on Toss Up. An insightful songwriter with a lyrical style that is both economical and evocative, Krauter crafts unique soundscapes that scramble a range of influences: ‘60s flower pop, ‘70s easy listening, ‘80s New Wave, ‘90s alt-radio, ’00s indie rock.

Recorded at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana, Toss Up builds on the sonic worlds of — and word of mouth, cult-like following around — his first two releases, 2015’s Magnolia EP and 2016’s Changes EP, which caught the ears of Stereogum, GoldFlakePaint, My Old Kentucky Blog, Impose, and more. The album conveys a similar mood through a greater array of instruments and influences, with Krauter building from what was around him, which included a Goodwill-found two-stack organ and his mother’s Yamaha teach-yourself keyboard. Combined, these elements create the secret tension on Toss Up, the engine that drives these songs: melody propelled by rhythm, melancholy fended off by the exuberance of simply creating art.

“A lot of the songs are about solitude in a very healthy sense, about trying to make it something useful and productive. It was good to center myself in that experience. I was able to get to a place where I was not afraid to be really stoked by what I was doing.” Or, as he declares on album track “Lonely Boogie”: “I’m all alone and I’m having a good time.”

Krauter — who has also recorded and performed with the band Hoops — will head out on a run of headlining tour dates in the US this June.

Toss Up track listing:
1. Cowboy Chloe
2. Lonely Boogie
3. Rollerskate
4. Suddenly
5. Restless
6. Keep Falling In Love
7. Who Do You Know
8. Barely On My Mind
9. Toss Up

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