Exclusive: Listen to The Convenience’s “Dub Vultures”

Today, The Convenience, the project of songwriters, multi-instrumentalists and Video Age members Nick Corson and Duncan Troast, have released “Dub Vultures,” the second single from their upcoming album, Like Cartoon Vampires. Three-and-a-half years after unveilign their debut, the New Orleans duo will see their sophomore record come out on April 18 via Winspear. Given Corson’s talents on the guitar and Troast’s nose for a great piano melody, the Convenience make tunes that affectionately land somewhere in-between krautrock and synth-pop. It’s as post-punky as it is swaggering, and the band’s first single, “I Got Exactly What I Wanted,” was a killer introduction to the Like Cartoon Vampires era. Likewise, “Dub Vultures” is a gothic guitar track that contorts into this incongruous, jumping pretense of woozy rock magic.

Corson says that “Dub Vultures” was “written and demoed in 15 mins in an agitated state.” “Realized later I took the title from a New Order remix, but theirs was just a pun on their song ‘Sub-culture’ (shrug),” he continues. “I hesitate to speculate what ours is about but I think it’s got somethin’ to do with drones. Recording was frustrating—toyed with each individual instrument forever but in the end kept it almost exactly the same as the first day we tracked it.”

Listen to “Dub Vultures” below.