SONG PREMIERE: Choice Words Channel Early Power Pop Influences on “Talk Myself Out of Love”

Zachary ‘Del’ Weinberg is the creative force behind the hard-hitting power pop project Choice Words. Recorded at Del’s new home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Choice Words has the choicest words in their newest single, “Talk Myself Out of Love” (PRE-ORDER) off their debut release on Org Music entitled …um.

With swirling pop organ, crunchy guitars, and in-your-face vocals, Choice Words is more than pop-punk. It’s pop with punk sensibilities–or is it the other way around? Either way, this track will burrow its way into your head and stay. It’s catchy as hell.

Today Glide is excited to premiere “Talk Myself Out of Love,” a song that traces the genre to its roots as it channels early Elvis Costello and the Attractions in its instrumentation, musicianship, and all-around fun. The lyrics, recording techniques, and sound quality more closely resemble late ‘50s-early ‘60s R&B and soul music. Meanwhile, Choice Words also count the 90s alternative rock of Superchunk and Superdrag as major influences.

While playing drums Weinberg intersperses driving beats with dramatic hits. “In the chorus,” he says, “I play along the rims of the drum shells to resemble the ticking of a clock, alluding to ‘time’ referenced in the words.” He also makes the curious choice of having the verse more energetic, more in-your-face than that ticking clock of the chorus.

Weinberg’s voice is powerful as he snarls as much as croons the lyrics. “/Baby, baby you know this time is up/and I’m telling you/Aww you know we were wrong from the start/.”

Listen to the tune and read our chat with Weinberg below…

Was this song a silver lining of sorts? A great song born from a moment where you talked yourself out of love?

I wouldn’t exactly call the song a silver lining. The song is about reflecting on missed opportunities, and times where one gets so hung up on things being “perfect” that they fail to take advantage of something new and potentially great. I’ve framed that type of experience in the context of a relationship, where someone decides not to take the plunge even though there’s nothing really amiss. It’s about not giving yourself the chance due to fears of an unknown future and the possibility of not working out.

Will Choice Words be touring at all? What’s the current live lineup?

I play in a Pittsburgh indie/shoegaze/pop band called Boy Wonders with Derek January and Joe Praksti. They’ve been kind enough to jump-in on guitars for Choice Words, and our good friend Warren Pryde has been joining us on bass. Our live show is best described as if Keith Moon was a lead singer–I try to channel that type of wild energy while singing lead vocals from behind the drumset. 

We have no solid tour plans as of now, but we have a cassette tape release show on the books for 10/21. We’ll be teaming up with New Twenty SaintsTokyo Sayonara, and Anthony Heubel for a show in Pittsburgh at The Government Center.

You’ve got a new place in Pittsburgh! How has the new setting been and has it spurred new creativity?

More so than my new geography, I recently became a father and that has no doubt changed my approach to music. Her little ears can’t quite take the drums yet, and I can’t play while she’s sleeping, which leaves me with when she’s out of the house. I have to be very efficient with my music time. 

You’re a multi-instrumentalist. What is the one instrument you have lying around that you simply cannot walk past without playing?

I have a piano in the living room, and a day doesn’t pass where I don’t sit down to serenade my wife, daughter, and cat. We keep a homemade family songbook that’s a combination of classics (The Beatles, Temptations, Elvis Costello, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, etc.), as well as my more recent influences (The Reigning Sound, The Lemonheads, Sloan, Teenage Fanclub, etc.). 

What have you been listening to in the car lately?

My daughter is all about a mixed CD I made with a bunch of songs from the Supremes, Jackie Wilson, Lesley Gore, Dion, The Chiffons, Del Shannon, etc. She’s been very clear that the CD remains in rotation. For when she’s not in the car, I’ve been loving The Whiffs, Kids on a Crime Scene, Color Green, and Supercrush.

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