San Francisco rockers, Carpool Tunnel have released their new single, “Dreaming Still”. With a swirling combination of ’60s and ’70s-era classic rock and blues with the sunny sounds of SoCal-soaked surf rock, this track is sure to tug at the heartstrings of 90’s sitcom fans.
“’Dreaming Still” pushes listeners to dream more, while also posing a question about how easy it is to overindulge as a way to escape reality,” says the band on the new single. “As musicians, we understand how tempting it is to get caught up in daydreaming about the future, but we’ve come to understand the importance of breaking through that mental fog and working hard to reach success.”
Like many 21st-century relationships, Carpool Tunnel started with the swipe of an app.
Just two weeks after an ad for Vampr – hailed as Tinder for musicians – came across Daniel Stauffer’s phone in 2017, the Bay Area drummer was in the studio along with two fellow Vampr users, guitarist Bradley Kearsley and singer/guitarist Ben Koppenjan, recording their debut single “Afterlight” with Grammy-nominated producer Billy Mohler.
One new member – bassist Spencer Layne – and a $400 Craigslist van later, the brilliantly named band hit the road, bringing their California cool aesthetic and classically retro sound up and down the coast. In this live setting, free-wheeling and bereft of perfectionist attitudes, the quartet began laying the foundation for their long-awaited debut full-length album, Bloom.
Talking about their upcoming album, Koppenjan says, “We were all trying to come out of adolescence and find ourselves. The message we came up with was, ‘Like a flower, you too shall bloom.’ We were all blooming into ourselves and finding our sound at the same time.”
The new single offers another look at the band’s debut album Bloom, due out February 26, 2021, via Pure Noise Records. The album puts the quartet’s sandbar psychedelic sound on full display creating something that’s both nostalgic and fresh and is available for pre-order here.
Check out the music video for “Dreaming Still” below:
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