Denver rock band, CITRA have returned with their new single, “Inside My Head” today. Marking their first release since 2022, the new track is a sneak peek of a fresh collection of songs the band plans to release as singles throughout late 2023 and early 2024.
“Inside My Head” explodes out of nothingness with a cannon-fire snare drum blast, and a fanfare of guitars that whips the listener into a sonic frenzy, pushing loudness to the limits of recorded music, before immediately spiraling you down their musical rabbit hole, where singer Bran Arndt highlights a tastefully minimal musical moment… a candid and exposed vocal performance that sets the stage for an honest look at where the band has been, and where it’s sights are definitively set…forward.
The opening lyrics, a simple declaration that feels every bit the statement as it does a question, finds the band introspectively and somewhat auto-biographically wrestling with themes which they say is simply “the natural byproduct of a period of change in both the band, and in our own individual lives… the necessary healing of old wounds, the mending of fractured relationships, the narratives that most everyone spins into something worse in our own minds and, in the end, making a simple choice to leave the past alone, and keep moving forward.”
The new song is the band’s first collaboration with longtime staple of the Denver music scene, Producer/Engineer Tyler Imbrogno (Eldren, Izcalli, Augustus), and finds the foursome exploring a vast array of musical ideas that seamlessly intertwines rich vocal harmonies, an anthemic chorus, proud guitar parts born for the arena, indie-rock dance beats, folk-acoustic instrumentation, and somehow serves it all up on an audible platter to a listener rewarded with a conclusion that features what is undoubtedly the most densely arranged music the band has ever put to tape.
You can hear “Inside My Head”, as well as the rest of the band’s new music at their headliner show on Saturday, December 2nd at Denver’s Globe Hall.