Metal Bubble Trio Release "Love, Please Don't Be Long"
METAL BUBBLE TRIO RELEASE NEW SINGLE
“LOVE, PLEASE DON’T BE LONG”
FEATURED ON THE UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM CUCUMBER
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Metal Bubble Trio, the new project from songwriter Andrew Dost, announced last month their debut album, Cucumber, for a January 17, 2025 release. Today, they share a third single from the record, “Love, Please Don’t Be Long,” premiering the video via Under the Radar. Watch + share it via YouTube.
Discussing the “Love, Please Don’t Be Long” single, Dost notes, "This song took shape during a very happy moment in a relationship - we found something very good and easy, and as I say in the song, 'You, me, and the dog: it’s like we found a four-leaf clover in the lawn.' It’s nice to be so close and comfortable with someone that even when they go to the grocery store, you look forward to their return and make sure their water glass is full. The structure of the song itself is mostly rooted in trying to be as tender and specific as I could in writing a love song. I also find orchids to be incredibly beautiful and otherworldly, and it’s wild to me that they’re available at the grocery store, right there with the green beans and cereal (a lyric from the song ‘Cucumber’ that I repurposed for this one too)."
An enchanting indiepop wonderland, Metal Bubble Trio is as much an ode to the natural world as it is a personal witness statement of joy and connection, loss and regret. It was a happy accident; struck by the tenderness of a YouTube clip that unlocked in Dost a hunger to evolve his craft beyond the familiar: a deep dive into bossa nova jazz chords combined with a diet of Mulatu Astatke’s Ethiopian style, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders’
multiphonic technique, and improvisation by pianist Oscar Peterson jump-started the project. “The lights in a dark room went on and it was full of things I didn’t know were in there,” he recalls, “I wanted to pick them all up and admire them.”
Delighting in these deep-dive discoveries, Dost looked to share these moments of inspiration. Enlisting the musical talent of trusted friends old and new to shift and guide Metal Bubble Trio in unexpected directions, the process blossomed, recapturing the sense of community which kept him playing instruments throughout his youth. The result, a cast of artists and instrumental players; the woodwind of Evan Smith (Bleachers) and lap steel of Seth Bernard flowing alongside lyrical uplifts from Chicago rapper TheMIND, with former bandmate Matt Joynt, Chris Hatfield (Love Axe), LA singer-songwriter Jordan Beckett (Bootstraps), Detroit singer-songwriter Woman Believer, co-producer and mixer Ben Cohen, and even one of Dost’s own music students Maia Rowan.
Contrary to its name, whether the Trio consists of twelve musicians or four (never three!), the live experience unites audience and artist in a spontaneous jam style moment; “our shows meander, someone can take a solo, we’ll pull it back; the arrangements exist to be broken up then we steer the ship back.”
Dost has been performing with his evolving Metal Bubble Trio off and on over the past year plus, and has previewed material at multiple Ally Coalition Talent Show events in New York City, an organization he co-founded with Jack Antonoff and Rachel Antonoff in 2013.
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