PREMIERE: RECKLING Feels The Moment On ‘VERBALIZE’ + Shares Tour Diary
by JAMES DURAN
RECKLING Shares the second single off their upcoming EP Human Nature + a photo-diary from their most recent tour with Together Pangea and Sad Park.
At the end of April/start of May 2022 LA’s premiere garage-rock band Reckling headed up the west coast on tour with hometown friends Together Pangea and Sad Park. Before the four-piece took off, we asked them to take some snaps on the road for the second entry into TOUR DIARIES - a new column in which bands document their adventures while cruising the world (it’s not rocket science).
Alongside the tour-documentation we are happy to be premiering ‘Verbalize’, the second single of Reckling’s upcoming EP Human Nature due on August 12th. The new track takes a slower, more emotional approach to Reckling’s signature garage-punk-in-your-face sound but the slightly new direction is an evolution, one we’ve been blessed to hear through the bands live shows and now in our stereos. On the topic of ‘Verbalize’, front-woman Kelsey Reckling expalins:
"I think this is my favorite song I've ever written. Most of my songs are written retrospectively, often reflecting back on a specific time or feeling. But with 'Verbalize,' it was written in real time during the actual moment, in the middle of all the feelings — and was written as a way of sorting through things.
It's kind of like vomiting...when you have that bad feeling in your stomach but you're not at the point of having to throw up yet, but you know that when you do throw up, you're gonna feel so much better. Sometimes, you have to exorcise feelings from your body by way of song."
