THE VASCO ERA 'I Don't Mind' LP

The Vasco Era are back with a slab of noisy garage rock. I Don't Mind — the first single from the album of the same name — is the band's first new music in a decade and a half. The record feels urgent, unbound by expectation - from experimental electronic crooning to classic Vasco torn-speaker rock n roll.

“I Don’t Mind is about walking around seeing the lies and accepting them,” says frontman Sid O’Neil. “But like all thought processes, just when you settle on a perspective, it gets upset. I’ve been through actual hell and almost heaven since our last release — this song is about almost reaching acceptance. Kinda.”

Following standout albums ‘Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside’ (2007), ‘Lucille’ (2009), and ‘The Vasco Era’ (2011), the band return with a new album produced by longtime collaborator Greg Rietwyk (Lunchroom Records), capturing their raw energy with renewed freedom. ‘I Don’t Mind’ distills the band’s spirit: raw, loud, tender — sometimes all at once. The album itself is split in two — Side A: Yelling. Side B: Crying.

“This record is us embracing both chaos and beauty,” Sid reflects. “Yelling and crying — two sides of the same coin.”