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Keim wrote “Canyon” at a low point in the spring of 2020. His band’s West Coast tour had been canceled as the coronavirus swept across the country, forcing him to drive from San Diego straight back to Pittsburgh. Soon their first European tour was canceled, too. “That was a turning point, an epiphany for me,” Keim says. During that eventful spring, Keim became entranced by Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Batmanglij’s I Had a Dream That You Were Mine and Tobias Jesso Jr.’s Goon LP. He also broke up with his longtime girlfriend, who wanted him to become a postman. “I didn’t want to give up on my childhood dream,” Keim says.
While living in Washington, D.C. and saddled with credit card debt from his canceled tours, Keim began delivering for Uber Eats to pay the bills, playing the occasional gig on the side (even at an abandoned subway station). Inspired by the lush textures of the Hamilton/Rostam album, he began pushing himself musically—taking piano lessons, experimenting with a sixties organ, playing synths and keys. He built a home studio in his room, and began buying new gear to stimulate his creativity. One night, while down and out in D.C., Keim performed some new songs on Instagram Live, which caught the attention of musician Josh Sickels, formerly of 1,2,3. Keim began sharing his demos with Sickels and his ex-1,2,3 bandmate Chad Monticue. In a surreal culmination of Keim’s teenage obsession with 1,2,3, the two musicians (who now comprise the duo Animal Scream) enthusiastically agreed to produce Keim’s new material.
On “Canyon,” you can hear this creativity entering full blossom. Keim’s new songwriting revels in a new sonic complexity, full of winks at acoustic psychedelia and rustling piano that recalls vintage Walkmen records.
"Keim's voice is unique and pitched up in this jaunty track that seems like it should be laid over a road trip montage. It's got a vintage rock feel and is full of blazing instrumentation... "Canyon" is an impressive show for Keim as someone in the midst of a redefining moment." - Pittsburgh City Paper
"If you’re looking to indulge in some sunburnt desert-psychedelia this summer, then look no further than “Canyon." - Look At My Records
"We’ve heard Zack Keim in garage-rock mode with The Nox Boys and stripped-down folk mode a la early Dylan on his Get Hip solo album, but “Canyon” is something new." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
credits
from Canyon / Alice,
released November 4, 2022
Zack Keim: Vocals, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Hammond Organ; Chad Monticue: Bass, Vocals; Nyc Snyder: Electric Guitar, Weird Sounds; Lukas Read: Electric Guitar; Jake Hanner: Drums
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