Announcing: Hit - Bestseller LP out Oct 25th
10/25 release show at Unruly Collective, plus recap of MS in Beantown
Sup everybody,
Three years in the making, the debut album from Hit is coming out a month from today. It’s called Bestseller, here’s the cover art and track list:
Arite
Nu Jangle
Vanderbilt
Great Conjunction
Chumbox
Inner Critic
Never Gonna Get It Back Again
The Spot
Bestseller
I Hadn’t Noticed
Goldilocks
“The Spot” premiered a week ago on the Alternative with a music video I made, you can watch that below. Since “hit the spot” is an unintentional and unsearchable pun, here are links to stream it on Spotify and Apple. You may remember the music video for another track on the album, “Nu Jangle,” that we released back in February. And if you’re a truly OG Hithead, you’ll remember we released “Vanderbilt” (there was a fun vid for this one too) and “Great Conjunction” as a digital single way back in 2022. They both appear on the album in new mix form.
The night of the release (Friday, 10/25) we’ll be playing a release show at Unruly Collective (200 Cooper St) in Bushwick with Big Scary Indian, Shira, and Ellie Shannon. We’ll have a run of CDs (digipaks again baby) available at the show, possibly some other fun merch. More on that soon. Here’s a flyer:
Per the last newsletter, Miracle Sweepstakes played a one-off show in Boston a couple weekends ago. It was pretty good! We played to a lot more people than I thought we would, and it was cool to play on a big stage. They even projected the MS logo on the screen behind us. There was a nice, quasi-poetic moment during “Axeman’s Delight” — a song about winging it on guitar — where Justin’s guitar cut out. Annie captured it here:
There’s unfortunately no video of it, but Justin spent the rest of the song frantically troubleshooting his pedalboard, before giving up and plugging directly into the amp just in time for the blazing solo. I believe they call this a meta commentary. We also got a nice 56-second clip (so ~65% of the song) for “Lambchop”:
Deep Cuts had some monster truck rally on in the barroom, and there was something really beautiful about it. Here we were, hanging in the outskirts of Titletown, USA, in mid-September — football back in full swing, the baseball pennant race rising to a, heh, Fever Pitch — and, because the Red Sox and Patriots are compleeeeetely irrelevant, they’re playing some shit I haven’t seen on TV since those ‘90s Gravedigger infomercials.
Truly a sad state of affairs. But hey, if you’re a Red Sox fan, think of it this way: you’ve got a clean slate next month to truly lock in for #Hitober. Stay tuned for more Bestseller news, plus another MS show in less than a couple weeks. Until then…
Keep Poundin’,
Craig
Hell yeah, pumped for track #7