"Can’t Pretend," the third single from Graham Hill’s upcoming album, Isotropes, is a somber duet with vocalist Maggie Koerner, whose resume includes The Revivalists and Galactic. The aching, shimmering ballad has a cinematic lilt, as two souls yearn for connection while pondering the world’s fate. “Should I say hello / or wave goodbye?” What begins as a simple question becomes a haunting refrain, apropos in our modern age of uncertainty. As the song builds toward hope, the final lyrics call back to the precipice of despair: “The first thing that we share may be the end.”

Isotropes

Can't Pretend

Roman Ruins - Can't Pretend (feat. Maggie Kroener)

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Written and performed by Quid Quo
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Recorded July 2022 by Gordon Baker at Goobyland Recording
Mastered by Phil Petrocelli at petrocelli-audio.com
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Bathroom Selfie Backgrounds

Graham Hill has long shown interest in the convergence of music and architecture, and his third album as Roman Ruins feels like a groundbreaking ceremony. On Isotropes, Hill is crafting songs that can be lived in. After nearly a decade since his last solo release - time that included touring and recording as the drummer for Beach House - Hill is building around melodies that embed themselves; creating familiar, inviting spaces amidst arrangements that conjure chaotic beauty of the outside world.

Hill has teamed up with several New Orleans-based artists, including vocalists Maggie Koerner (Galactic) and Alexis Marceaux (Sweet Crude), as well as Oscar-winning producer Donald Markowitz and multi-instrumentalist Paul Provosty (Deltaphonic, Flow Tribe). 

Each song on Isotropes has distinct properties—not unlike a piece of terracotta or chunk of metal—unique in shape, but with internal consistency. As a whole, the album creates a walkable field of tunes that evoke a desire to connect and welcome, while calling to the wheel of anticipation > elation > melancholy that propels into hope, rolling all the way home.

Ascendancy

Roman Ruins - Ascendancy (feat. Alexis Marceaux)

Written and performed by Quid Quo
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Recorded July 2022 by Gordon Baker at Goobylalnd Recording
Mastered by Phil Petrocelli at petrocelli-audio.com
Artwork by Quid Quo

Tires

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Recorded July 2022 by Gordon Baker at Goobylalnd Recording
Mastered by Phil Petrocelli at petrocelli-audio.com
Artwork by Quid Quo

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