WATCH: San Diego’s benches Release Video for New Single “Naive”

One of the best new rock bands to emerge from San Diego, CA in the last five years, benches just dropped their new single called “Naive.”

It’s an early taste of the EP the group is finishing up for release later this spring, coinciding with their upcoming tour, which includes an appearance at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA. Fans of The Strokes and Pale Saints alike will no doubt dig the electric, ethereal aura this quartet, comprised of Anson Kelley (vocals/guitar), Ethan Bowers (drums), Evan Ojeda (lead guitar), and Charlie Baird (bass), is putting down on this tune.

“‘Naive,’ at its core, is ugly and uncomfortable,” the band says about the song in a joint statement. “It plays between jagged-edged truths and defensive deception. Somewhere between hollow promises and mistakes laid-bare. ‘Naive’ loves to feign sincerity. It lies to itself sometimes, while pacing back and forth, on edge. Drifting forward cautiously in unease. It doesn’t want to expose its many secrets. It doesn’t want to look itself in the mirror, but would rather bury itself far within a hardened exterior. The words are obscured in effects to hide the details.

“The musical landscape attempts to place you in a world where every wrong turn takes the steering wheel, and doubt waves from every corner, eventually throwing you through the windshield in slow motion down into a sinkhole as life as you know it begins to collapse. This dramatization is necessary to highlight the complexities of a flawed perspective (and make me look even more pretentious but hey whaddya gonna do it’s how I write).

“‘Naive’ has that sinking feeling that you may happen upon after unexpectedly unearthing an ugly realization. And it tries to play it cool in the midst of it all.”

The band is touring everywhere this spring. Check the tour dates below to see if they are playing near you. They seem like a hoot in concert. 

 

Tour Dates

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* Festival

# March 21 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar

# March 23 – Raleigh, NC – Motorco

# March 24 – Richmond, VA – The National

# March 25 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis

# March 26 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl Philly

# March 28 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza

# March 29 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

# March 30 – Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall

# April 1 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo Iron Works

# April 2 – Toronto, Canada – The Axis Club

# April 5 – Detroit, MI – The Shelter

# April 6 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall

# April 8 – Chicago, IL – Botto Lounge

# April 9 – Milwaukee, WI – Rave II

# April 11 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line

# April 12 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre

# April 13 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hal

# April 15 – Colorado Springs CO – Black Sheep

# April 16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre

# April 19 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile

# April 20 – Vancouver, Canada – Fortune Sound Club

# April 21 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre

# April 24 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall

# April 26 – Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theatre

# April 27 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House

# April 28 – San Diego, CA – Music Box

< April 29 – Tuscon, AZ – 191 Toole

< May 1 – Houston, TX – Bronze Peacock

* May 5 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival

< May 7 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry

< May 9 – Denton, TX – Andy’s Bar

< May 10 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room

< May 11 – San Antonio, TX – Vibes Underground

< May 13 – Albuquerque, MN – Launchpad

< May 15 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar

 

VIDEO: benches “Naive”