Corvair is what happens when you trap two Scorpio songwriters in a house together.

Corvair’s debut album charts a starcrossed love story over three decades, five cities, and six continents. Spanning from atmospheric pop to jangly confessional, chugging groovers to molten guitar anthems, 70s AM to 90s FM, this work is laden with stunning turns of phrase and prodigious melodies, two voices leaping to meet in the ether. Corvair sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard and everything you’ve always loved.

Our upcoming album was recorded in Seattle, with drummer Eric Eagle (Jesse Sykes, Wayne Horvitz) and Engineer Martin Feveyear (Queens of the Stone Age, Presidents of the USA).

Brian and Heather have previously recorded or performed on more than twenty albums. Heather’s musical mainstay was the garage pop band Eux Autres, broadly hailed as a “veritable cult classic” band. Brian is a longtime fixture of the Northwest rock community, having played in vital bands such as Tube Top, Pop Sickle, The Service Providers, and the critically-lauded Ruston Mire, since 1995. Most recently, Brian released his first solo record, Hoffabus and a record with the NW Supergroup, The Service Providers.

www.corvairband.com

Released by:
wiaiwya (UK)Paper Walls (US)
Album release date:
14 February 2021

Unsubtle Lake

Three Stars

Sunday Runner

Sailor Down

Paladin

Oceansided

Green (Mean Time)

Focus Puller

Daily Double

We wrote Flannel Pajamas the other weekend as we were mulling over what this year's holiday is going to be like, separated from friends and family, but still surrounded by so many traditional things--family decorations that have been passed down for generations, the lights throughout the neighborhood, the Charlie Brown album that we never get sick of, ever.

To us, it seemed like the Worst Year Ever had earned a new song in the deep tradition of wistful Christmas songs ("Blue Christmas, “Please Come Home for Christmas"). This year so many of us won’t see the people we love. So "Flannel Pajamas" wrestles with that longing and nostalgia for better Christmases, and then turns to that steadfast companion in holiday times—“the sauce.”

The lyrics veer back and forth between loneliness and wonder:
“Put your star at the peak,
hung up your stocking and
poured some whiskey for me”

And then the chorus declares "I forgot to ask for anything." For the outro, we were trying to enumerate all of the magical elements of Christmas, the things you pull out of the attic that remind you of your family and childhood. And then we alternated those with a few other traditional conduits to Comfort and Joy.

You can stream or buy the single on bandcamp and watch the very hypnotic video on You Tube.

Flannel Pajamas

Corvair is a husband/wife duo from Portland, Oregon. Threading together 70’s pop, 80’s synth rock and 90’s indie rock, influences from The Carpenters to ELO, Cheap Trick to Metric, Corvair sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard and everything you’ve always loved.
 
Naubert and Larimer have previously recorded or performed on more than twenty albums. Larimer’s musical mainstay was the garage pop band Eux Autres, broadly hailed as a “veritable cult classic” band. Naubert is a longtime fixture of the Northwest rock community, having played in vital bands such as Tube Top, Pop Sickle, The Service Providers, and the critically-lauded Ruston Mire, since 1995. Most recently, Brian released his first solo record, Hoffabus and an album as part of the Northwest guitar rock Supergroup, The Service Providers.

Sunday Runner

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