It feels good to showcase a track from the newest 2015 EP released from one of Santa Barbara’s best bands who formed in 1986 right after yesterday’s featured artist who also originated from the same region in 1987. Both bands continue to issue solid releases after all this time, with a lot of great music that has held up quite strongly over the last twenty-five or so years.
Today’s track from Toad the Wet Sprocket is via their six-track EP of the same name, ‘The Architect of the Ruin’, released on June 16, 2015. Beyond the title track here, personal favorites of ours from this release include the song ‘So Long Sunny‘ and the album closer ‘Last to Fall‘, a beautiful effort co-written with Beth Thornley, a singer-songwriter out of LA who earlier released a pretty incredible version of this song on her album Septagon released in April. She had previously met Glen Phillips, the singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket through the Durango Songwriters Expo held in Santa Barbara and they co-wrote this striking track together, of which Toad recorded their own version for this EP.
You can pick up Toad’s new EP at Bandcamp below as well as through iTunes and Amazon.
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I was a little late to the release of New Constellation last year, but jumped on this EP as soon as it came out. I’ve been a fan of TTWS for a long time and missed them. Neither the LP or Architect of the Ruin disappointed. I think both are strong efforts by the group and I look forward to more from them. If you’re a fan of the group, Glenn does events through Stageit every once in a while (stageit.com). Just him and a guitar in his backyard. Oh, and his daughter sang on the last one. It’s a lot of fun.