PREMIERE // american poetry club – “thank you x3”

post by tommy

dear reader – i hope this premiere finds you well. enclosed below, please find the latest from american poetry club, a once st. louis-based, now decentralized songwriting project. having transitioned into a remote collaboration in may 2019, nearly a full year before it became the necessary mode of art in a global pandemic, american poetry club’s new work wears its remote recording stripes with grace and vibrant colors. opening as a loose, brittle weave of acoustic guitars and close-to-the-chest vocals threaded around the muted thud of drums, “thank you x3” eventually spins itself into a warm winter quilt of a refrain, densely layered with vocals and explicitly welcoming yet somehow defiant and keen.

currently, american poetry club is comprised of members jordan c. weinstock (brooklyn, they/them), andy lewis (st. louis, he/him), connor sbrocco (carbondale, he/him), kaley macleod (detroit, she/they), sang-jin lee (st. louis, he/him) and zoë finkelstein (st. louis, she/her).

“It was written at a time when I felt very far away from my community, and had just begun to find myself a new one.” weinstock explained over email. “It’s about coming to understand that just because we are far away from, or out of touch with those we love the most, does not mean we are not still tied to those people and places, and does not mean we should be afraid to tie ourselves to new ones.”

“thank you x3” is available now via It Takes Time Records.