SONG/VIDEO PREMIERE: LOVE BY NUMB3RS’ Bleed Soulful & Haunting Roots Blues On “Earth Needs A Moon”

As the title suggests, Portland, Maine-based LOVE BY NUMB3RS’ new album Earth Needs A Moon certainly takes on the celestial inspiration recently taken on by like-minded Tedeschi Trucks Band in their moon album series. Yet, while no band can touch the firework guitar displays of the prior mentioned collaborative, LOVE BY NUMB3RS’ has a fiery and passionate musical relationship that extends beyond imaginative solos.

Earth Needs A Moon is filled with soulful, haunting, and evocative songs about love, devotion and more with finely etched, atmospheric settings, over which vocalists Anna Lombard and Dan Connor cast their spells.  The tracks—marked by multi-instrumentalist Jon Roods’ smart choices—are sonically spacious and move slowly, however confidently, and make the listener feel like they are floating in air on a journey somewhere. 

Glide is premiering the dramatic title track song and video that showers our ears with the dramatic interplay between the trio that takes listeners to a nostalgic hideout where secrets are sheltered and sins are forgotten. There is a bleeding guitar solo midway through the song as Lombard pours her fervently soulful vocals into the song’s building storyline.

The video was shot in a town called Industry, Maine where there are rolling hills and back roads and lots of expansive landscapes with wildflowers and fields. It is based on a story and art by celebrated artist and their friend Pat Corrigan. The band got his permission to use his drawings and bring them to life in the video.

“Pat Corrigan is a very celebrated artist of many mediums and one of our dearest friends.  When I stumbled upon his Instagram post, I was specifically really drawn to the content of the conversation bubbles in his drawings talking about the earth and the moon.  I felt this overwhelming feeling of some semblance of cosmic connection, as though stars had aligned between what his drawings were meant to convey and the concept/context behind writing this song.  It couldn’t have just been by coincidence.  So we felt very compelled to dig deeper and bring his drawings to life by reenacting them within our video,” says Lombard.