West Texas slowcore purveyors Shallowater are gearing up for the release of their sophomore album, God’s Gonna Give You A Million Dollars, on September 5. Produced by Asheville, NC engineer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Indigo De Souza, Waxahatchee, Hotline TNT), this new collection follows their 2024 debut record, There Is a Well, which cemented them as an exciting new voice in the genre. Their songs are spellbinding and cinematic, filled with clanging dissonance, twangy ephemera, and unfurling post-hardcore rhythms. Dense guitar riffs saddle up next to Americana impulses and billowing reprises, flowing together in a torrent of boundless innovation and adaptation. Basically, it’s the sound of a star going supernova.
On their latest single, the impressively statured “Sadie”, the band dig into their collective experiences with weather anxiety to create a substantial sonic storm capable of beating back the forces of nature. We careen through winding countrysides and deserted backroads before our vehicle is struck by ball lightning – and now the band really lets loose, ripping through sludgy riffs and sizable sheets of rhythmic corrugation. Eventually, the sky lightens, and the clouds stray apart, guiding us back through the lens of our shared experience.
“Growing up in West Texas brings a lot of weather-related anxieties,” the band explains. “Lubbock was completely leveled by a tornado in the ’70s, and the thought of that happening again kept me up many nights when I was a kid. I know tornadoes are pretty cliché but telling us not to write about them would be like telling someone in California not to write about the ocean.”
Listen to the song below
God’s Gonna Give You A Million Dollars is due out September 5. You can pre-order the album here. Follow the band on Instagram.
