Four years after releasing their Merge debut, Frozen Letter, Spider Bags will return on August 3 with Someday Everything Will Be Fine, an LP that ascends to new levels of aural punch and perspective. Watch the blistering music video for the 60-second live favorite “Cop Dream / Black Eye (True Story)” and reserve your copy of Someday Everything Will Be Fine in the Merge store on CD, LP, and limited-edition bruiser-colored Peak Vinyl. You can also pre-order through participating independent record shops and digital music services.

Recorded in Memphis at Bunker Audio by Andrew McCalla (who also engineered Spider Bags’ seminal 2012 rock and roll party record Shake My Head), Someday Everything Will Be Fine leverages the limitations and glory of the Tascam 388, a vintage recording/mixing device that’s acquired a mythos via its association with legendary records by Dinosaur Jr., East River Pipe, the Black Keys, Ty Segall, and Thee Oh Sees to name a few.

Recording in Memphis also lent its own mojo to the album’s sound and feel. According to frontman Dan McGee, “Rock and roll just sounds better there. I swear.” Adding to this sound is the featured playing of Memphis giants Jack Oblivian, John Whittemore, Jana Misener and Krista Wroten-Combest of the Memphis Dawls, and multi-instrumentalist Seth Moody. Other non-Spider Bags contributing musicians include Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus (who you can hear on the gang vocals of “Cop Dream / Black Eye (True Story)”) and Matthew Hoopengardner of Austin, Texas, rock and roll legends the Golden Boys.

Catch Spider Bags in the flesh at Louisville’s annual Cropped Out festival in October. More shows will be announced soon, so follow the band on Facebook and Twitter. Yeah buddy.

photo: Alex Boerner