The title of Joe Kaplow’s second full length album, Sending Money and Stems, is not just a reference to life currency, but also a description of how the album came to be. “Normally I would have flown up to Portland and sat in the room with Mike (Coykendall) as he mixed, but because of covid I had to email him stems (raw audio files) and we would go back and forth a few times until we got it right. When one song was done, I’d text him and be like ‘Ok man, next song coming up; sending money and stems!'”
The new album fills in the holes of Time Spent In Between. It’s more band oriented, more groove based, more uptempo, more hifi, and more happy go lucky than his previous work. “Yeah, Time Spent In Between was a heavy record…”
There’s always new challenges for a working musician. For Joe and almost everyone else, the new challenge is promoting an album release without touring. Thank God for the internet? But Joe Kaplow will figure it out, just like he figured out figure-8 mic placement or how to use index pages on Squarespace. He’ll keep figuring things out because that’s how you keep going. He’s pretty sure he likes making music. He wants to ride the Ferris wheel all night.
Catchy guitar lines and a steady groove set the tone for Kaplow‘s new single ‘Little Sleep,’ as the emerging Santa Cruz, California based multi-instrumentalist serenades us with a unique flow and depth of emotion. Kaplow painlessly bridges the quirky indie rock bridge between Kurt Vile, Carseat Headrest and Mac Demarco. A potent combination to say the least, check it out below…
