Shannon & The Clams’ 6th Studio Album, "Year Of The Spider," Out Now On Easy Eye Sound

SHANNON & THE CLAMS’ 6th STUDIO ALBUM, YEAR OF THE SPIDER, OUT NOW ON EASY EYE SOUND READ TRACK-BY-TRACK VIA CONSEQUENCE HOST INSTAGRAM KARAOKE PARTY ON MONDAY, AUGUST 23rd AT 8PM ET 17-DATE HEADLINING TOUR CONFIRMED

“…this is a gem you’ve just unearthed from a forgotten shelf in a secondhand shop… they’re Shannon and The f*cking Clams.” “Shannon and The Clams’ latest record is a rip-roaring listen.” -Paste “Year Of The Spider brings bad vibes in the best way possible, through a psychedelic blues sound that’s served raw by producer Dan Auerbach.” -The AV Club “Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard trick out warped Fifties-Sixties rock driven by space-age thrift-shop keyboards, shimmy-shake dance grooves and sexy moonlit vocals—Shaw’s woozy Amy Winehouse-isms are backlit by Blanchard’s shrieky falsetto.” -Rolling Stone "Year of the Spider is anything but stuck in the past. Its novel sonic alloys & punk rock spirit ring of right now." - Uncut   Shannon & The Clams’ sixth studio album, Year Of The Spider, is out now via Easy Eye Sound. For the album, the band, fronted by bass player Shannon Shaw and guitarist Cody Blanchard on lead vocals with Will Sprott on keyboards and Nate Mahan on drums, returned to Dan Auerbach’s Nashville Easy Eye Sound Studio to craft a mature, reflective and ebullient album built for the current times, on which they have perfected their signature blend of garage psych, doo-wop, classic R&B, and surf rock. Year Of The Spider is available on all formats here. Today, the band share their track-by-track guide to the album via Consequence, who say of the album, “Year of the Spider is all about not just persevering through adversity but thriving. With the material split between Shaw and Blanchard on lead, early singles like “Midnight Wine” and the title track have shown the band has come out the other end stronger than ever.” Read the full track-by-track guide here. To commemorate the release of their new album, Shannon & The Clams will host an Instagram karaoke party on Monday, August 23rd at 8pm ET. Shannon and Cody will host the event, with guests including Will and Nat of course, as well as friends of the band. Tune into the event here. Shannon & The Clams recently shared “All Of My Cryin’” the third single from Year Of The Spider. The video, directed Ryan Daniel Browne, echoes themes from of the album including finding joy and connection from loss and tragedy. Watch the music video for “All Of My Cryin’” here. The band also confirmed their 17-date headlining tour of the U.S. in cities including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nashville, and Las Vegas (full dates below). Tickets for these dates are on sale now here. Year Of The Spider, rages against death, darkness, and disease with the power of a thousand angry Ronettes. “It felt like the end of an era,” Shaw said about a writing period that began with the tragic death of The Clams’ former drummer Mick. In 2016, The Clams’ DIY community suffered the devastating Ghost Ship warehouse fire. In 2018, the California wildfires came unnervingly close to her parents’ homes. In 2019, a lurking intruder drove Shaw to move out of her beloved Oakland apartment she’d lived in for 14 years. And then, right as her band was getting invited on big tours with bands like Greta Van Fleet and The Black Keys, her father was diagnosed with cancer (he has since, thankfully recovered). The resulting album is a reflection and intimate portrait of overcoming seemingly overwhelming odds, and not only surviving but thriving in the process. The opening track “Do I Wanna Stay” is a slow tango between Shaw and an alluring piano line (Will Sprott). When Shaw rasps, “I dream at night,” she sounds like Brenda Lee whittled into a shiv. “All Of My Cryin’,” “Godstone,” and “Year Of The Spider,” pulse with elegance and punk ferocity. On a Clams record, you always get both. That duality comes from the decade-long creative partnership between Shaw and The Clams’ guitarist Cody Blanchard. In “I Need You Bad,” their voices lock into a bewitching minor chord. “It’s like a zipper when we sing together,” Shaw said, “I think we have a blood harmony, though we’re not related.” Bands that do have blood harmonies — the Everly Brothers, the BeeGees — are major musical touchstones for Shaw and Blanchard.   Blanchard mixed Spider at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound Studio the week tornadoes devastated parts of Nashville right before the COVID-19 shutdowns in early 2020. He also wrote and sings lead on roughly half the songs on Spider. His songs, like “Flowers Will Return” and “In The Hills, In The Pines,” have swelling pop arrangements and a mysteriously sparse falsetto, reminiscent of bands like The Hollies and The Zombies.  Ultimately Year Of The Spider, despite being written the summer before the world came to a stop, is a prescient album and a reflection on love, loss, and community, and how what we fear can ultimately serve to protect us. “I am terrified of spiders, but my mom always told me that they are drawn to me,” says Shannon Shaw. The turbulent period following the release of the band’s previous album, Onion, allowed Shannon to consider arachnids in a different light. “The symbolism of the spider made a full turn in an interesting way,” she said. “I was getting protection from the thing I feared the most.” Plus, she said, “Spiders destroy the bullshit bugs. Like mosquitoes. Who needs ‘em?”   Shannon & The Clams is Shannon Shaw on bass and vocals, Cody Blanchard on guitar and vocals, Nate Mahan on drums, and Will Sprott on keyboards. The band has developed notoriety for lively and genuine stage performances, including on recent tours opening for The Black Keys and Greta Van Fleet, and a zealous following that craves their particular authenticity and innovation on classic sounds. Shannon & The Clams 2021 Tour Dates Fri-Sep-03     Seattle, WA               The Neptune Theatre Sat-Sep-04    Portland, OR             Crystal Ballroom Thu-Sep-30   Tucson, AZ               Club Congress Plaza Fri-Oct-01      Los Angeles, CA      Belasco Theater Tue-Oct-19    Washington, DC       Black Cat Wed-Oct-20  New York, NY           Webster Hall Thu-Oct-21    Hamden, CT             Space Ballroom Fri-Oct-22      Boston, MA               Royale Sat-Oct-23     Philadelphia, PA       Union Transfer Sun-Oct-24   Cleveland, OH          Grog Shop Tue-Oct-26    Chicago, IL                Thalia Hall Wed-Oct-27  Louisville, KY            Headliners Music Hall Thu-Oct-28    Nashville, TN            Basement East Fri-Jan-07      San Francisco, CA   The Fillmore Sat-Jan-08    Visalia, CA                The Cellar Door Sun-Jan-09   Solana Beach, CA   Belly Up Tavern Tue-Jan-11   Las Vegas, NV         Backstage Bar Year Of The Spider Track Listing 1. Do I Wanna Stay  (04:28) 2. All Of My Cryin’  (02:29) 3. Midnight Wine  (03:18) 4. I Need You Bad  (03:03) 5. Year Of The Spider  (02:30) 6. In The Hills, In The Pines  (02:34) 7. Godstone  (02:30) 8. Snakes Crawl  (03:17) 9. Mary, Don’t Go  (02:53) 10. Leaves Fall Again (02:39) 11. Flowers Will Return  (03:21) 12. Crawl  (02:19) 13. Vanishing  (03:06)   http://shannonandtheclams.com/ https://www.facebook.com/shanandtheclams https://www.instagram.com/shanandtheclams https://twitter.com/shanandtheclams