It takes a lot to make a Monday feel like a Friday, but Jonny Pierce has that kind of rizz. The man behind The Drums brings his heralded indie-pop project to The Sinclair in Cambridge tonight (July 31), the latest stop of a summer tour that showcases The Drums’ forthcoming album, the appropriately titled Jonny. The record drops in October via ANTI-, and tonight should serve as a nice primer for the new stuff, as well as all the fun surf-pop indie jams Pierce has cranked out in his post-Elkland life.
“When I finished Jonny, I listened to it, and I heard my soul reflected back at me,” says Pierce. “It is devastating and triumphant, it is lost and found, it is confused and certain, it is wise and foolish. It is male and female, it is hard and gentle. To encapsulate ones’ whole self in an album, to honor each and every part of you — even the parts that feel at odds with each other, is to make something deeply human, and because my religion is humanism, the album becomes a sacred place for me to worship. Each feeling a different pew, each song a hymn to the human heart.”
In April, we basked in the indie glow of “I Want It All”, and a few new singles have surfaced since. Get into The Drums’ latest n’ greatest after the show info jump.
THE DRUMS + COLD HEART :: Monday, July 31 at The Sinclair, 52 Church St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $32 :: Event page :: Advance tickets
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