On 5th June, Providence’s Deer Tick will release their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. In advance of that comes the customary singles, of which Everything Born is the latest, and it touches on the LP’s underlying theme of impermanence. The band’s guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil shares: “Everything Born was written quickly about the tenuousness of life and the precious time we have to spend with the people that come into our lives. It’s about family, friends, neighbours, strangers and how these thoughts burrow a little deeper the older we get. I was thinking about my son and the people of Providence, RI while writing it.”
The album Coin-O-Matic takes its title from a cigarette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca, a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime families in U.S. history. “If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago, you’d see all these mobsters on the news and then run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill,” says McCauley, referring to Providence’s version of Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colourful characters, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness.”
