Last month, King of Spain snagged our Single of the Week position with the hypnotic, driving, and ultra-literate track “Motions.” We’re delighted to debut the new track, “Basement Fires” from the Tampa, FL twosome today at TVD.
“I was 15 years old at the time and just discovered punk and post-punk music—due in large part to the local community radio station. They had a Saturday “alternative music” show that was sponsored by the only independent record store in town. I remember skipping school and traveling close to 10 miles by bus to get that shop. No small feat in a town known for its lack of mass transit.
On entering that store I can absolutely remember the sights, sounds and smells of tens of thousands of vinyl albums. Over the next several years I scraped, scrounged, and saved to buy any album that caught my fancy. Eventually I amassed quite a collection of records, but more importantly a collection of memories.
That experience still sticks with me today. The music on those albums helped instill an independent spirit inside of me. It is that spirit that still helps define the person I am today.”
—Daniel Wainright, King of Spain
King of Spain’s All I Did Was Tell Them The Truth And They Thought It Was Hell is out today (8/28) via New Granada records.
