Feel It Now, Racyne & the Low Coals’ 3-track project, is a vibrant country-leaning indie-rock record with a funky live-band sound
Indie-folk trio Racyne Parker & the Low Coals are a force in the making. Consisting of Racyne Parker (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Jordan Renn (bass, rhythm guitar) and Nick Wood (drums), the Colorado-based band started working on their debut EP Feel It Now two summers ago. With its 31 March release, fans can expect to hear everything from lively verses and adrenaline-heavy riffs to a live-band sound. Because of the timing of the group’s collaboration, the EP is inherently tied to the state of the world in 2020, when uncertainty became the norm. Not only that, but the uncertainty of being young artists in the industry, trying to make it work. In this way, Racyne Parker & the Low Coals attempt to bring light to those dark times with their hybrid sound and intentional lyrics. In the title track, the band showcases their knack for rock ’n’ roll, giving the feel of high highs and low lows as the character at hand grapples with hedonism at its most self-destructive. ‘Feel It Now’ touches on “themes of keeping depression and anxiety at bay and finding moments of clarity in the midst of spinning out – all of this, framed in the context of a night out,” the band explains. Despite the heavy subject matter, there is an air of badassery to the production style, as if to mirror the pull of over-indulgence. Wood reckons it’s the perfect song to listen when “doing something extreme,” adding, “or you might just turn this one up loud and yell along in your car on your way to work.”
