Chicago diet punk band, Guardrail have unveiled “Silhouette“, the latest taste of their upcoming album, Content, out July 7th via Open Your Years Records. The track, driven by energetic guitar and sing-along ready gang vocals, follows recent single, “Joke’s On Me”. Listen to it now below and pre-save the upcoming album now here.
The band shares of the new single, “’Silhouette’ was the last track written for the album. The main riff came from an inside joke that we ended up building a song around. It’s also the first ‘love song’ we’ve ever done, a different change of pace from our usual doom-and-gloom lyrics.”
Guardrail is a band from Chicago, IL consisting of Kevin Andrew (vocals), Ken Ugel (guitar), Alyssa Laessig (bass, vocals), Doug Brand (drums) and Xack Brame (guitar). The band initially began calling themselves “diet punk” as a joke, but eventually they started to own it. They’re not exactly “punk” in the traditional sense, though it’s their biggest influence. They’re just here to sing happy songs about not-so-happy things, marinated in Jeppson’s Malört and positive energy.
In 2020 the band signed to Richmond-based label Open Your Ears Records. They released their label debut, Yikes, later that year, garnering attention from Substream Magazine, The Noise, Chorus.fm, and more. Stay tuned for more coming soon from Guardrail at the links below.