The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy (CD)

The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy (CD) The Hold Steady announces their eighth studio album, Open Door Policy, arriving on the bandâs own Positive Jams label via Thirty Tigers on February 19, 2021. Recorded at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, NY with producer Josh Kaufman and engineer D. James Goodwin, Open Door Policy marks the second LP by The Hold Steady to feature the bandâs current six-piece lineup. Additional performers include Stuart Bogie and Jordan McLean on horns, Cassandra Jenkins and Annie Nero on backup vocals, and Matt Barrick on percussion. ÓOpen Door Policy was very much approached as an album vs. a collection of individual songs, and it feels like our most music ally expansive record,Ý says singer Craig Finn. ÓThis album was written and almost entirely recorded before the pandemic started, but the songs and stories explore power, wealth, mental health, technology, capitalism, consumerism, and survival Ü issues which have compounded in 2020.Ý TRACKLISTING 1. The Feelers 2. Spices 3. Lanyards 4. Family Farm 5. Unpleasant Breakfast 6. Heavy Covenant 7. The Prior Procedure 8. Riptown 9. Me & Magdalena 10. Hanover Camera