How long til we look back and say we can't believe we lived that way?

East Coast based Palehound was halfway through their first national headline tour supporting their newest album, Black Friday, when the world turned upside down. Each of us remembers exactly where we were and what we were doing on that fateful weekend in mid-March, 2020 when we were all suddenly directed to take cover. Everyone has a story. We all see the world a little differently now. 

And so, what appears on the surface to be a short & sweet guitar-driven ditty about a hot summer day becomes something else entirely. "How Long" kicks off innocently enough, a brisk, rockabilly-inflected twang of acoustic guitar hitting a fun, upbeat vibe. Or wait, is that actually anxiety fueling that propuslive beat? Who can really tell these days..

"This is a true story about a day I had back in July, where a few friends came to meet us at a swimming hole," Kempner explains. “At first it was a blissful day which then took a sharp turn when a bunch of biblical omens came suddenly from nowhere, water snakes, dark storm clouds, hail. It felt very familiar, and seemed to mock us." 

Sound familiar?