With just weeks to go until the release of the latest album from CHRIS CHURCH , Big Stir Records brings you the second preview single: “She Looks Good In Black”, out March 14 on all streaming services worldwide. Like the prior standalone teaser track and indie hit “Sit Down”(out now), it will be accompanied by an Official Music Video during release week, setting the stage for the album OBSOLETE PATH at the month's end. The single is up for pre-order and pre-save now:

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“She Looks Good In Black” bristles with the same emotive power and irresistible hooks as the other tunes on the breathtakingly diverse OBSOLETE PATH. Taking a step back from the intense rhythmic rush of “Sit Down”, the new tune's midtempo groove lets Chris's vocal – and the harmonies of Gretchen Wheel's Lindsay Murray which ornament so many tracks on the new album – truly shine. The song is classified by Church himself as “suggesting country rock”, its twang landing in the territory of Neil Young & Crazy Horse and harking back to the heyday of No Depression alt-country, but it communicates a giddy rush of early love in a way only Church could: the brilliant opening couplet “I had to let go of her hand / She left to see a Satanic band” is one for the ages, and the song boasts an equally unforgettable chorus.

Taken together, the rootsiness of “She Looks Good In Black” and the new wave-tinged pulse of “Sit Down” might suggest to longtime Chris Church followers that the revered North Carolina indie rocker is revisiting more than just one of his old musical haunts on the new record. They'd be completely correct in that assumption: in fact, the album digs back into not just Americana and the sleek '80s pop vibes of his most recent full-length record, 2023's critically-hailed Radio Transient, but also the pure power pop of his 2017 breakthrough Limitations Of Source Tape, the hard-rock “heavy melody” of Backwards Compatible (2020), the lo-fi immediacy of Game Dirt (2021) and the spooky sludge rock of Darling Please (2022). But it would be misleading to call the new album “eclectic”; it's simply too coherent, purposeful and passionate to be viewed as a collection of genre exercises. The distinctive stamp that CHRIS CHURCH has put on all these idioms across those albums insures that they all come home sounding like no one else. They belong together, all part of the same story and the unmistakable work of an inimitable artist... and they make OBSOLETE PATH an ideal introduction, a career summation, and a bracingly fresh high point in an already-beloved catalog all at once. Fans old and new will delight in following this path to the end, again and again when the album sees release on CD and Streaming on March 28.