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Los Angeles-based band The Pretty Flowers will release their anticipated new album Never Felt Bitter, out March 27 via Chicago’s Forge Again Records (pre-order). They shared their new single, “To Be So Cool” along with its accompanying music video directed by Tambi Haron.
On the song, vocalist and guitarist Noah Green says, “'To Be So Cool' is one of my favorite songs on the album, and it’s a blast to play live. The lyrics just seemed to kind of flow and I didn’t try and overthink writing them at the time. Some months later when I was watching the film Withnail & I for the umpteenth time, I noticed that the lyrics seemed to connect to the film, in how the 'I' character sees Withnail going through life. Maybe a student in a community college English class will tease that idea out in an essay at some point.”
The Pretty Flowers, formed in 2013 in Los Angeles by songwriter Noah Green, crystallized its core lineup of Green (vocals, guitar), Sam Tiger (bass, backing vocals), Jake Gideon (guitar, backing vocals) and Sean Johnson (drums, percussion) in 2018. The music on Never Felt Bitter is the result of playing together on hundreds of nights in innumerable bars and clubs across Southern California and beyond. Over the years the band has honed a fearsome melding of pop melodicism and raw physicality. Their knack for crafting catchy anthems for outsiders and underdogs has made them one of the most respected underground bands in L.A.
