{"id":22905,"date":"2026-09-30T05:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22905"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:56:52","slug":"new-jersey-rock-n-roll-duo-tall-days-bring-downtown-dirt-back-across-the-hudson-on-new-lp-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22905","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Rock \u2019N\u2019 Roll Duo TALL DAYS Bring Downtown Dirt Back Across The Hudson On New LP Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Jersey rock \u2019n\u2019 roll duo Tall Days return September 29 with Breakers<\/em>, their first new album in seven years. Made up of Graham Hartke on vocals and guitar and Joe DeAngelus on drums, the Montclair pair have always worked from a deliberately stripped-down foundation: two people, loud amps, big drums and hooks that stick. On Breakers<\/em>, that basic philosophy remains intact, but the edges have gotten considerably wider. Drawing from the raw punch of \u201960s and \u201970s British rock, garage rock and modern indie fuzz, the record lands somewhere between the blown-out immediacy of Jack White and The Black Keys and the restless garage instincts of Ty Segall. Tall Days belong to that particular stretch of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll geography where North Jersey and New York bleed into each other. The Snack Factory in Montclair on one side. Brooklyn clubs like Our Wicked Lady on the other. Manhattan somewhere in between, with the ghosts of the Bowery still hanging around whether the luxury condos like it or not. There\u2019s a little of that old New York scuzz in Breakers<\/em> too, harking back to the days when Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Royal Trux could make busted amps, cheap rooms and bad decisions feel dangerous, and New York rock was still supposed to leave a stain on your shirt. On Breakers<\/em>, Tall Days carry a little of that downtown dirt back across the Hudson, crank the guitars and make it their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written and recorded by Hartke and DeAngelus at their own Snack Factory studio between March 2024 and February 2026, Breakers<\/em> was built around a simple mandate: make noise and bring the hooks. Amps were cranked, drums were hit hard, and the performances were kept deliberately raw. But for a band known for working with a minimal setup, Tall Days also let themselves get weird. Alto and tenor saxophone, Hammond organ, recorder and a small arsenal of percussion all find their way onto the album, expanding the sound without polishing away the racket at its center. That push and pull runs through the record itself. Hartke describes Breakers<\/em> as an album of duality, written in response to a chaotic world that can inspire anger one minute and stubborn optimism the next. \u201cDestroy,\u201d \u201cGaslight Bomb,\u201d \u201cBreakers,\u201d \u201cNight,\u201d \u201cLess Fortunate\u201d and \u201cOn Edge\u201d lean into frustration, confrontation and the urge to push back. \u201cShe Is My Girl,\u201d \u201cHumanity,\u201d \u201cCover Song\u201d and \u201cNYC Rock \u2019N\u2019 Roll\u201d look in the other direction, finding joy, family and reasons to keep believing in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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