Commonwealth band, Gold Connections returns with a new album, Fortune. This week grab “Fool’s Gold” from the release as your Free Weekly Download at WNRN.org.
“We recorded five tracks from this record…back in Charlottesville, VA, in early January 2020.,” says Will Marsh. “Over the span of this DIY release, COVID shut things down and traumatized the world. We couldn’t tour our new songs or sell many tapes. The whole fiasco informed my impulse to move to New Orleans and quit music for a while.”
The result is a record that sounds like “a conversation between old Virginia and the buzzy psychedelic world of post-COVID New Orleans”, according to Marsh. The previously recorded five tracks blossomed into eleven, fully fleshed out by a new band that included the rhythm section from fellow New Orleans band Motel Radio (Eric Lloyd and Andrew Pancamo), and notably, Marsh’s younger cousin, guitarist Fraser Wright.
