11:11

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Following the release of lead single “Orange”, Pinegrove’s fifth LP "11:11" was not-so-coincidentally announced on 11th November 2021, alongside the album’s second single and track from which the album derives it’s title, “Alaska”. The announcement came with the following statement: "Pinegrove’s new album "11:11" is an unqualified triumph, an album that seizes listeners with hook-filled songs imbuing feelings of warmth, urgency, and poetic beauty, even as it asks some of life’s big and difficult question. On previous Pinegrove recording, band member Sam Skinner usually oversees mixing dutie, but this time out, noted producer and former Death Cab for Cutie member Chris Walla has assumed the role. Calling previous album Marigold’s production “crisp and contained,” Hall, who co-produced "11:11" with Sam, sought more of a “messier” feel for these new song. Most of the recording took place at two Hudson Valley facilities (Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock and The Building in Marlboro) with the final touches done side by side with Walla in Seattle. "11:11" features lush soundscape, organ, Megan Benavente’s melodic and adventurous bass playing, Josh Marre’s signature guitar work & a special guest- Doug Hall, Evan’s father- playing piano on many track. The record sounds intimate, yet expansive. “It spends equal time on optimism, community, reaffirming what we are and how it’s our duty to look out for one another” says singer Evan Stephens Hall. “There’s anger, love, hope and grief. The record has all of that.” .

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