King Ropes new album Dirt is a punk-infused, garage rockin’ conversation about the human experience.
Frontman and guitarist Dave Hollier has experienced the greatness of the music scenes in both NYC and Los Angeles but now, back home in Bozeman, Montana, King Ropes’ music explores the contrasts between urban and rural, East vs West, and so on.
I’m interested in the contrasts between urban and rural, eastern and western, sophisticated and raw, sweet and bludgeoning,” Hollier states. “People think it’s weird, a kid from Montana to move to New York in the 80s. NY was pretty gnarly then, but those two extremes define who I am, and I think that this music reflects that.”
Dirt is an amalgamation of sounds that reflect the lo-fi, punk-rock 80s in NYC, the alternative, eclectic vibes of Los Angeles, and the thoughts of an individual who has lived in the fast lane but now has found comfort in the rural retreat of his native land in Big Sky Country.
I used to be a painter,” he notes, “and I had a fascination with the line between abstract and figurative. When do some marks on a piece of paper start to look like something? I think I have a similar thing in my songs. There’s something beautiful to me about a song where you get the sense that it comes from a real experience, but there’s enough left out that you’re not sure you really know the whole story.”
Dirt is now streaming on Bandcamp and the band has some really dope merchandise available for those of you who prefer to hold something in your hands!
