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On the cover of the Drums’ latest album is a stark, disarming image: the band’s lead singer and lone full-time member Jonny Pierce is naked on his knees, supplicated and bent over a chair, seemingly deep in prayer.
Pierce could have easily duplicated the template for those catchy earworms, which mixed 80s synthpop vibes and 50s doo-wop pastiche with the earnest schoolboy candor of Belle and Sebastian. That philosophy has provided the Drums with a remarkable staying power. While the band’s album announcements no longer draw major media coverage , the Drums still sell out large venues and the band has nearly 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify, an astonishing total for a group without a major press apparatus working on its behalf.
Ex // Top Stories Can EVs cost, charging keep up with SF climate goals? With electric vehicle sales increasing, officials are working to bridge the affordability gap among prospective buyers Pierce’s tireless work ethic is one explanation for that success, but his deeply personal storytelling also resonates with a certain audience that sees a figure of inspiration in the Drums’ front man. Pierce, who is openly gay, grew up in an extremely religious environment, causing great tensions with his parents, eventually leading to an estrangement that continues to this day.
“I feel like this is my time travel album,” said Pierce. “Some of these are just straight up love songs toward my younger self. When I was recording and writing, I was really in a space of learning how to parent myself and give myself the love that I didn’t have when I was young. I’ve had these kinds of retrospective moments before, but this is the first time I’m looking back from a place of understanding, and not chaos.
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