
Jeremy & The Harlequins
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In todayâs musical landscape inundated by cheap hooks and overproduced studio tricks, Jeremy & The Harlequins are here to keep the fire and spirit of rockânâroll alive. Thatâs something the New York five-piece have been doing since forming just a few short years ago, both with their debut album American Dreamer (2015) and its follow-up Into The Night (2016). Theyâre continuing this approach with their third album in three years, entitled Remember This, which they started writing at home in New York, immediately after the recording of Into The Night.
“By the time that record was released,” explains front man Jeremy Fury, “I had about two thirds of Remember This written. I wrote the songs in my apartment in Hell’s Kitchen and then we worked on the majority of the arrangements as a band together at the infamous Music Building near Times Square.”
Remember This has all the hallmarks of a Jeremy & The Harlequins record, but at the same time it sees the five-piece expanding on their own musical boundaries. While Jeremy & The Harlequinsâ music has been permeated by nostalgia for the classic licks, riffs and aesthetic of rockânârollâs golden age, this new record sees the band widening their sonic horizons with the help of producer Rick Parker.
âWe wanted to make a classic American rock record,â explains front man Jeremy Fury. Â âWhen we made American Dreamer, I was really bored with rock music in general and I felt the only place to go was to strip it down and pull from the past. I was listening to a lot of â50s and â60s rockânâroll at that time, but for this record, I didnât want to limit myself to drawing from a certain amount of influences. And I feel these are the strongest songs weâve ever written. Itâs a definite progression, but also a reaction to what weâve done in the past.â
This next phase of the bandâs career was marked by first single âLittle Oneâ hitting the airwaves in August of 2017, and the band plans to release a series of songs until the album is released on August 17th . The new material comes with a shift in direction due to the fact that Jeremy & The Harlequins â completed by guitarists Craig Bon and Patrick Meyer, bassist Bobby Ever and Jeremyâs brother Stevie Fury on drums â are a band who have never stopped moving or creating. Recorded in LA with producer Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lord Huron, Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts) in the historic Beachwood Canyon and Boyle Heights, Remember This offers a widescreen vision of America that focuses on the urgency of the present moment but which also retains the bandâs magical, romantic vision of and reverence for the past.
âIâd say I have a pretty decent record collection,â says Jeremy. âI love music and I wanted to take the best aspects of the things that I like and roll them into our sound. I feel like America is in a period of reinvention right now â everything from fashion to what we drink to the restaurants we eat at are all being reinvented â and I wanted to take things from the past that I loved and create something refreshing and new.â
The band were able to easily and naturally shift their sonic direction on their own, working with Parker enabled them to fully realize that vision.
“It wasn’t until the bulk of the material was arranged that we realized this record would sound a little bit better a little more polished than our previous albums,” says Jeremy. “We had phone calls with various producers and studios but in the end, we knew Rick was the right man for the job. Â He has a knack for getting the best performances and gets a lot of good instrument sounds. Also, he’s incredible at mixing.”
At the same time, these are songs that very much exist in the context of America in 2017, and under the cloud of a tumultuous political landscape. Thatâs something Jeremy found was impossible to not confront, but thatâs not to say these are vehemently political songs, however. Rather, they offer a glimpse of the world as it could and should be.
âLyrically, these songs are concerned a lot more with whatâs going on around us,â says Jeremy. âI think itâs important to remember that everyoneâs still human. You walk down the street in any city and people co-exist, so I think our message when it comes to the more political songs isnât picking a side and rallying against the other, but more saying weâre all here together, and that itâs important to reach across the table and realize weâre all human.â
In a few short years, Jeremy & The Harlequins have made a sizeable impression in the streets and venues of New York, becoming a vibrant part of the cityâs alternative scene. Given their heritage, thatâs not surprising.
âCraig and I had been working at putting together a new band after we parted from our previous endeavors,â explains Jeremy on the bandâs origins in Ohio. âWe were at our witsâ end trying to find the right sound. My brother had been living in Paris and was back in town visiting family. Â While he was back, we started working on a bunch of songs I had written over the course of eight years. He was like, âWeâre back for three weeks, why donât we make an album?â Itâs easy to put ideas like that off, but we just did it and it went from there. Craig met Patrick a day before he came out to Detroit, which was where we made American Dreamer.â
Jeremy admits that, initially, the band âdidnât really have any aspirations beyond making the recordâ but then momentum started to gather. âTrip Into The Lightâ, the first song on American Dreamer, was featured in the Tom Cruise movie Edge Of Tomorrow. It was also voted 2015âs âcoolest track in the worldâ by the listeners of Little Stevenâs Underground Garage radio show, and topped the Best of 2014 Readers and Fans’ Poll of New Yorkâs emerging music magazine The Deli. The band even enlisted The Big Short actor John Magaro to direct the video for âInto The Night.”
That momentum continues to push the band forward. Â Each track is one part of a brand new whole, a sound that Jeremy terms ânew American rockânâroll.â Itâs a simple yet effective description, one that captures both the mood and the sound of the bandâs music. Because these are songs which span the past, present and future, songs which are deeply rooted in the history of rockânâroll but which brim with urgency of now. These are tunes youâll be humming for years, and which, in your heart of hearts, youâll swear youâve been singing for decades already. Â
âIâve always wanted to have a song or a few songs that become part of peopleâs lives,â says Jeremy. âI think thatâd be my highest aspiration.â
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