Multi-Platinum Artists Brent Smith and Zach Myers As Duo
Smith & Myers
Release Dual Songs & New Video
“Bad At Love” – PRESS HERE To Listen
&
A Re-Imagining of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” – PRESS HERE To Listen
PRESS HERE To Watch The Video For “Bad At Love”
Announce Studio Album Smith & Myers Volume 2
Out October 23 via Atlantic Records
Smith & Myers Volume 1 Out October 9
String Of October Drive-In Shows Planned
Smith & Myers To Co-Headline Come Together: A Mental Health Music Festival On October 8th
Supporting Mental Health Resources & Programs In Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic
Credit Paris Visone
New York, NY – [September 25, 2020] – Today, Smith & Myers – the duo comprised of multi-platinum artists Brent Smith and Zach Myers – have released dual songs from their newly-announced full-length album Smith & Myers Volume 2 out October 23 via Atlantic Records, that will follow the release of Volume 1 on October 9. Original track “Bad At Love” is a vulnerable and personal song about the difficulties of staying in a romantic relationship when you have a gypsy heart, full of clean guitar coils and finger-snaps, and is accompanied by a brand new video directed by Sanjay Parikh – PRESS HERE to watch and PRESS HERE to listen/stream. “Bad At Love” is paired with the release of a grungy, re-imagined version of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” – PRESS HERE to listen/stream. Smith & Myers Volume 2 is available for pre-order now and features five original tunes and five re-imaginings of fan-submitted songs including Oasis’s “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell,” and R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” (full track listing below). Additionally, both the CD and LP – which collect Volumes 1 and 2 in one package – are also available now for pre-order. The Double LP is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and available in an exclusive limited edition Shiny Black vinyl in the S&M store. The vinyl will be released 11/13. PRESS HERE for the pre-orders.
“‘Bad At Love’ was one of the very first original songs to be written for the project. I think ultimately the song was born from my own romantic relationships. When I love someone, I love them fully, and sometimes the passion can be too much. I always know when it’s time to move on. That being said, I am extremely grateful that I am still very good friends with the ladies I have loved, and still love, to this day,” shares Brent.
“‘Bad at Love’ was one of the first original songs we wrote for this album … lyrically Brent was writing about things in his life that maybe we wouldn’t really touch on with Shinedown and I think it came out to be an incredibly naked and honest song. And I think ‘Bad Guy’ turned out very cool – it’s a nice bluesy version of the song,” says Zach.
The new songs and the announcement of Volume 2 comes on the heels of Smith & Myers’ recent release of their original single “Not Mad Enough,” which was written in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s death, expressing the intense emotions that followed and laying bare a plea for racial justice through direct and urgent lyrics over acoustic guitar. PRESS HERE to listen/stream and PRESS HERE to watch the intimate, powerful video for “Not Mad Enough,” directed by Paris Visone. The song was released alongside a poignant version of “Rockin’ In The Free World” highlighting Neil Young’s timeless lyrics that are just as relevant today over lone piano – PRESS HERE to listen/stream. These two songs, featured on Volume 1, share a vision for change and equality and introduced Smith & Myers’ eloquent songcraft, indelible melodies and glorious vocals created with nothing more than a microphone and an instrument or two.
Smith & Myers Volume 1 is available for pre-order now HERE and features five original tunes and five re-imaginings of fan-submitted songs including Post Malone’s “Better Now,” INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart,” Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” and The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” (full track listing below).
With two hearts and one truth, lifelong musicians, longstanding friends, and eternal brothers Brent Smith and Zach Myers put forth a body of work encompassing vulnerability, fearlessness, honesty, outrage, love, and understanding. Smith & Myers Volume 1, produced by GRAMMY Award-winner and longtime collaborator Dave Bassett, is the duo’s first full-length album and first original music since releasing a pair of acoustic cover EPs, Acoustic Sessions, Part 1 and Acoustic Sessions, Part 2, in 2014 when fans first fell in the love with the magic that is created between Brent and Zach in the studio and on stage, leading to Smith & Myers live shows that instantly sold out. With no boundaries on what their songwriting could discuss on the new album, Brent and Zach explore everything from certain personal topics that they have left largely unexplored until now, to commentary on children being ripped from their parents at the border, to the reactive nature of social media, to our national reckoning with racial and systemic injustice– focusing not on politics, but on right and wrong and our connection as human beings.
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