Released on December 3, 2024
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- Sometimes
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“When I was 19 years old, I looked to the heavens and asked what I should do with my life,” says Carriers aka Curt Kiser. “I sat on my porch in Cincinnati’s Camp Washington neighborhood and proceeded to write one of the first songs I’d ever written on my own. It’s taken a few hundred songs to feel confident in it, but I’m there now.”
“Sometimes” is Carriers first new music from that massive songbook to be released since 2019’s Now Is The Time For Loving Me, Yourself & Everyone Else (reissued by Brassland in 2023). The track was made in collaboration with Dave Nelson, an accomplished studio player based in upstate New York who has worked with artists ranging from Lonnie Hollie and Joanna Newson, to Taylor Swift and Mumford and Sons. The result is crisp and anthemic — a cosmic swirl of heartland hallucinations, motorik Americana, and plainspoken poeticism in the vein of Tom Petty or Kurt Vile.
Carriers’ music has become something of an Ohio talisman, and Curt a true hometown hero. "I have a beautiful, symbiotic relationship with Cincinnati” he says, with no exaggeration. During the fall 2024 NFL season, the Cincinnati Bengals tapped him to play a set during their Monday Night Football game. He and his dad ("trust me, he shreds”) rocked out in front of 60,000 fans. Shake It! Records, one of Cincy’s most beloved local vinyl shops, is working with Carriers on a series of special vinyl LPs. And his project recently signed to Brassland, an esteemed Brooklyn label co-founded by one of Cincinnati’s most renowned 21st century cultural exports, The National.
Kiser is not oblivious to the realities and hardships of a life spent running down a dream. As he sings on his new track: “Sometimes I get to thinking ‘bout this life / where I’ve ended up and was it right.”
Right now everything seems to indicate that the window of opportunity is cracked wide open.