Midwest sounds from the Twin Cities, The Gated Community, deliver their new single ‘Hand in the Air’. Sumanth “Sonny” Gopinath leads the band through this mid-tempo rumination with Rosie Harris on lead vocals. This is the first single from the group’s forthcoming full-length album “Goodbye Work”, due in June 2025.
Gopinath reflects on the song’s lyrics, “I often think of this song as being written for the nerdy kid who shoots his/her/their hand up when a question is asked by a teacher in class. Although I think of the speaker as singing to the child version of themselves, perhaps it’s the distracted kid, the fearful kid, the difficult kid, the punished kid who are all gazing at and addressing the eager, nerdy kid. I was certainly this nerdy kid, and many of the rest of us in the band were, too.”
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
