Librarians With Hickeys - Handclaps & Tambourines

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BSR0083
Barcode: 697566064647
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Pop-Rock

Big Stir Records announces the much-anticipated return of LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS, back for 2022 with their new album HANDCLAPS & TAMBOURINES. The record, featuring the lead single “Ghost Singer”, sees release October 14 on CD at record stores worldwide and streaming everywhere, with pre-order options live now at www.bigstirrecords.com and all major online retailers. It's the followup to their breakout debut album LONG OVERDUE and delivers all the hooks, melodies, spiraling guitars and rhythmic charge that the first record, as well as last year's hit double A-side teaser single “I Can't Stop Thinking About You” and “Stumbling Down Memory Lane” -- both included here – have left fans worldwide anticipating.

There's something in a name, and Akron, Ohio-based indie popsters LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS both made and earned theirs in 2020 with a string of hit singles and their acclaimed debut album LONG OVERDUE on Big Stir Records. On a pop rock scene where too many otherwise fine bands stick to the playbook of one particular subgenre or decade, our Librarians – singer/guitarist Ray Carmen, lead guitarist/vocalist Mike Crooker, bassist Andrew Wilco and drummer Rob Crossley -- write, play, sing and record like they have shelf upon shelf of pop-rock history tomes at their disposal. As for the eyebrow-raising “With Hickeys” bit, if it bespeaks a certain amorousness, that passion is there in the grooves of the band's tunes to0: to paraphrase Jonathan Richman, they're in love with modern rock and roll, and you can hear it on the new album HANDCLAPS & TAMBOURINES.

Tracklisting
1. I Better Get Home
2. Ghost Singer
3. Fairground
4. Can't Wait 'Till Summer
5. Lady Overdrive
6. I See You
7. I Can't Stop Thinking About You
8. Over You
9. Stumbling Down Memory Lane
10. Last Days Of Summer
11. When We Were Young
12. Me And My Big Mouth