RELEASE DATE
"WHAT TIME?" streaming November 18
"RADAR" streaming December 16
VINYL RELEASE SHOW
DECEMBER 17
OLD ROCK HOUSE
with CAVE RADIO + BLINDED BY STEREO
BIO
Forged from long-time friendships, St. Louis power trio Jesus Christ Supercar came to be in 2018 and still hasn’t let up the gas. When frontman Collin McCabe (bass/synth) arrived back to his hometown, he came with a mission to assemble a new project that would reflect his vision of a rock band that could write driving and catchy pop songs. It certainly didn’t hurt that he already had the name in mind. He quickly found allies in high school friends Christopher Bachmann (guitar) and Tom Blood Jr. (drums), who saw the same vision after just one jam session and immediately began building the foundation of energetic, danceable tunes with distorted guitar riffs and punchy close harmonies.
Since their first show in December 2018, the band has paved their own way as its city’s premier (and possibly only) fuzz-pop, matching-jackets, dance-rock group. Having shared the stage with notable acts such as Broncho, Sleepy Kitty, Dinosaur Pile-Up, !!!, El Ten Eleven, and Cheap Trick, JCSC shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. The band’s two EPs — POST MADONNA (2020) and TURBO DIESEL (2021) — further explore their ethos of bringing rock up to speed with their pursuit of all things groovy.
This winter, the band will celebrate its first-ever release to wax with their singles “What Time?” and “Radar.” With split lead vocal duties between McCabe and Blood respectively, these complimentary tunes showcase everything the band has to offer: clever innuendo, swagger, and an aesthetic that is somehow both wildly chaotic and extremely focused.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
//// WHAT TIME
“What Time” started out extremely tongue in cheek and then became a little bit less tongue in cheek. It’s not subtle. I think Tom called it “at what hour can I expect you to deliver the sex to me.” We wanted to write something that was really confident but kind of goofy in the end – I think I love that about our band, really. We’re willing to make something a bit goofy.
In the end, it’s a song about that feeling you have when you just really want the person you’re with. It’s not a question of “can I take you home” – it’s not meant for someone you don’t know. It’s a kind of goofy question of “we both love each other, what time should we get at it.” You know, because you both know it’s already gonna happen. But we mixed in some goofy machismo, too. It’s supposed to play out like a bit of macho-satire. I hope that comes across to everybody else, ha.
Either way, we really wanted to hammer down the repetition on that song. I love the four-part harmonies on the bridge, and the way the background vocals jump in occasionally to emphasize certain words.
//// RADAR
I love “Radar” for its positivity. It’s just so upbeat. I showed it to my brother and he said “it appears to simply be about dancing,” almost like it was a bad thing. But that’s because it simply is about dancing. It’s just all these bouncing guitar and synth parts all over each other. In the end, that was our big goal of “Radar” – sometimes you don’t realize it but you write just a ton of minor-key, kind of downers. We wanted to step away from that, purposefully, and just create something that everybody can move to and really celebrated that idea that hey, you can just have a damn good time moving to this song.
//// ALL QUOTES BY COLLIN McCABE
CONTACT INFO
Christo Bachmann
JCsupercarSTL@gmail.com
Collin McCabe
collin@roughdetective.com
