Team Dresch - "One Song"
Photo by Twylo Landey
Somehow, I completely missed Team Dresch the first time around. When the queercore legends started playing shows again in recent years, people whose taste I respect starting freaking out, but for some reason I never quite got around to getting into them. If you're like me, now might be the perfect time to finally jump on the Team Dresch bandwagon since they're about to release their first album in thirty years. Their new single, "One Song," is giving me flashbacks from my college radio days. It's a driving and fun melodic indie rock track. In one track, the huge deal about Team Dresch is fully explained, and I'm mad I didn't spend the mid-90's pogoing like crazy at the front of the stage for their shows. "One Song" is the style of song that eventually morphed into emo, and I'll be spending the rest of the week fully immersing myself into their back catalog.
Team Dresch says of their latest single:
“There are lots of layers to this song. It’s a love song to our young selves from our present selves. It’s a song of hope and power for all the young queers who are dragged into the struggle. It’s also a song for the elders who have built defenses from years of working and caretaking and being pounded by life.
"The chorus starts, ‘They say there’s danger In the Night Kitchen/But it’s a dreamland/And it’s all for us.’ In the Night Kitchen is a banned book written by our queer ancestor, Maurice Sendak, who creates magical dreamlands. And then as we wrote about what it’s like to be older, Mel [York, drummer] remembered a message from an elder queer going through the same things as us and that message inspired the second verse.
"Young people are not only told that they’re IN a nightmare, they’re told that they ARE the nightmare. But actually, our queerness is a dreamland full of feral, playful joy.”
You can watch the video for "One Song" below. Furthermore is due out September 18 on Jealous Butcher Records, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Team Dresch, check out the band's website. Upcoming tour dates are below the video.
August 18 – The Square - Portland, OR^
August 20 – Zootunes, Seattle, WA^
September 21 - Oberhausen, Germany @ Druckluft
September 22 - Berlin, Germany @ Neue Zukunft
September 24 - Bremen, Germany @ Tower
September 27 - Hamburg, Germany @ Betty
September 30 - London, UK @ Lexington
October 28th - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall w/ Altar Girl
November 4&5 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ Longstocking & The Third Sex
November 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon w/ Longstocking & The Third Sex
November 12th - Tacoma, WA @ Spanish Ballroom%
^ = w/ Breeders
% = w/ Neko Case
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