The Nude Party Announce Self-titled Debut Album

The Nude Party have signed with New West Records and are set to release their self-titled debut album on July 6, 2018. The 11-track set was produced by the band’s mentor and friend, Oakley Munson of Black Lips, and demonstrates their raw and effortless synchronicity that developed from learning how to play their instruments together since their teens. An inseparable gang of blood brothers bonded by a musical mission indistinguishable from their friendship, the band have lived as one unit in house after house for six years, honing their sound and aesthetic. This uncanny chemistry is exhibited throughout the music video for the album’s first single, “Chevrolet Van.” Consequence of Sound premiered the band-directed video, calling it, “A tongue-in-cheek message for anyone who thinks you can’t live the rock and roll dream.” It shows The Nude Party as slacking office employees by day and a dive bar rock band by night. In a flash to the future, not much has changed as the band is still rocking the same dive bar years later – with the older version of each member played by their actual parents. The video for “Chevrolet Van” can be viewed at the link below, and The Nude Party can be pre-ordered now via New West Records.

The members of The Nude Party first came together in the freshman dormitories of Boone, North Carolina’s Appalachian State University in 2012. Patton Magee, and later Austin Brose, linked up with childhood friends Connor Mikita & Alec Castillo and stepbrothers Shaun Couture & Don Merrill. The following summer, the young men moved into a lake house outside of town to begin learning their respective instruments and jamming on rudimentary riffs. Friends came by the lake house to swim and party and soon there developed a group obsession with performing in the nude. They quickly gained a following as the house band at a notorious Boone party palace referred to as the 505 House, and the bare honesty of their performances was so contagious that their audience also started partying au naturel. While these traditions may appear risqué to the casual observer, the band explains, “These weren’t orgies, they weren’t sexual even. It was just kind of a wild exhibitionism that we felt gave us freedom.” Best known around campus as “the naked party band,” this informal aggregation of musicians became a defined unit and chose to call their group simply “The Nude Party.”

Ironically, they began playing fully-clothed as soon as they were christened since their birthday suits were not welcomed in any decent live music establishment. They hit the national tour circuit and soon found a mentor in Black Lips’ drummer, Oakley Munson. He produced their Hot Tub EP and in exchange for cheap rent and physical labor gave The Nude Party a new home deep in the Catskills Mountains. An isolated place to focus entirely on writing music and playing together, and the culmination of six years of experimentation and refinement of material, has resulted in the band’s first full-length.

Incessant road warriors who play 150+ dates a year, The Nude Party is currently on an extensive tour with Ron Gallo & Twen and will appear at Levitation Music Festival in Austin, TX later this month. The band will join Sunflower Bean for a stretch of dates this June followed by a headlining album release show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY on July 5.

The Nude Party Track List:
1. Water On Mars
2. Feels Alright
3. Chevrolet Van
4. Paper Trail (Money)
5. War is Coming
6. Records
7. Live Like Me
8. Gringo Che
9. Wild Coyote
10. Astral Man
11. Charlie’s Sheep

The Nude Party On Tour:
April 12 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge*
April 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
April 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent*
April 17 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium*
April 18 – Visalia, CA @ The Cellar Door*
April 19 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room*
April 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
April 22 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah*
April 23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar*
April 24 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace*
April 26 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
April 27 – Austin, TX @ Levitation Music Festival
April 28 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
April 29 – Houston, TX @ Satellite Bar
May 1 – Memphis, TN @ Growlers
May 3 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
May 4 – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
May 5 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
June 1 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery^
June 2 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel^
June 3 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle – Back Room^
June 5 – Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor^
June 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5^
July 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
*with Ron Gallo & Twen
^with Sunflower Bean

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