Turn the dial to obliterate. Miller Tracy ain’t here for subtlety. His new single, “Love Is Adamant”, detonates June 13th, and it arrives less like a song, more like a forced entry – a ferocious blast of garage desperation that perfectly soundtracks the suffocating chokehold of a toxic love you just can’t shake. Following the raw purge of “Creature Comfort,” this is Tracy going nuclear: more grit, more volume, pure rock ‘n’ roll dynamite.
Tracy’s journey to this point is as compelling as the music itself. Not the typical rock origin story. Hailing from Mountain Brook, Alabama, this guy spent his formative years chasing Olympic dreams in the pool – a hardcore competitive swimmer from age 8 to 18. When he walked away from the water just before college, a void opened. What filled it? The raw, scorching soul of the blues: Junior Kimbrough, Lightning Hopkins, Freddie King, the holy triumvirate of Kings (B.B., Albert, Muddy Waters). Then came the modern torchbearers – The White Stripes, The Black Keys – showing him how that primal fire could ignite contemporary rock. That spark sent him scrambling for a guitar, eventually landing him in Nashville.
Nashville was the crucible. Living with a future founding member of The Prescriptions, countless porch sessions dissecting records led to the life-altering nudge: “You should try singing.” Years later, after sharpening his songcraft in Seattle, Tracy circled back to those crucial Nashville ties to forge his debut LP. Key among them: Parker McAnnally (The Prescriptions), pulling double duty as producer and bassist, laying down the crucial, gut-rumbling low end and shaping the record’s raw, live-wire energy. Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes) adds further sonic heft. (Props to the Americo founder for sparking the McAnnally link!).
This isn’t only a song about toxic obsession; it’s the intense scream against it, weaponised by a wall of glorious, distorted noise. Miller Tracy took the unexpected journey – from crushing laps to channelling Lightning Hopkins to Nashville porch revelations – and forged it into something urgent, powerful, and undeniably real. “Love Is Adamant” is your June 13th prescription: a heavy dose of unfiltered, desperate, essential rock ‘n’ roll. Get ready to feel every ragged breath.
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