The Brook & The Bluff Share New Song 'Baby Blue'
(MPG) Nashville-based indie/rock group The Brook & The Bluff have shared their new single "Baby Blue." The track is the latest to release off their upcoming fourth studio album Werewolf, due out March 6th through Dualtone Records.
With delicate arrangement and gentle grooves over a bed of fingerpicked guitars, "Baby Blue" features tight three-part harmonies woven throughout every verse and chorus, a technique the band had never used before.
"'Baby Blue' is mostly about devotion, maybe almost to a delusional level," stated the band. "It's a bunch of ways to say I'm not interested in going anywhere, that I've been on all the roads and they have the same destination. It's the feeling of certainty you can stay tethered to when you feel like you may start drifting."
"Baby Blue" follows the release of the lead single "Super Bowl Sunday," an anthemic, amphitheater-worthy banger with crashing guitars and earworm hooks anchored by reflective lyrics about masculinity, ego, and the ties that bind. Upon its release, Atwood Magazine called it "Fun, radiant, and irresistibly spirited" while Melodic Magazine raved "True to form, the bright, driving energy of the music contrasts sharply with the bittersweet ache of the lyrics."
Heavily inspired by the band's blistering live show, Werewolf is a transformative album that finds the road warriors turning up their amplifiers, speeding up their tempos, and howling at the moon in four-part harmony. After nearly a decade of moving at highway speed - touring America every spring and fall, earning over 200 million streams, and releasing viral hits and critically acclaimed albums, including 2023's Bluebeard, which Paste hailed as "a triumphant next chapter" and Atwood Magazine called "a spellbinding, soul-stirring journey" - The Brook & The Bluff decided to take a break from the road last year. They stayed put in Nashville, meeting up every weekday morning for band practice. It felt like old times again: four friends working together in one room, rediscovering the raw energy that first took them from the campus of Auburn University - where Settine and Alec Bolton formed the band in 2015, drawn together by their shared roots in Birmingham, Alabama, and a mutual love of timeless pop/rock - to venues across the country.
For several hours a day, they shut out the world and focused on nothing but music. Channeling the southern-fried sounds of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty, Eagles, Little Feat, and other classic rock staples, they wrote songs full of melody and muscle, but with each song delivering a message, too. The direction often found the band reexamining the tropes and tired expectations of manhood in the modern-day south. Other songs canvas similar territory, exploring coming-of-age themes like responsibility and self-assessment over the band's loudest, liveliest songs to date. It's there, somewhere between the loud catharsis of the album's instrumentation and the sharply-written content of the songs themselves, that Werewolf packs its biggest bite.
By the time they headed into the studio with producer Micah Tawlks (Hayley Williams, Mat Kearney, COIN), the quartet had already played each song dozens of times, letting their collective energy fuel the creation process. Appropriately, the studio sessions unfolded like a live show, with everybody playing together in real time. The bandmates sat together in a circle and recorded each song 10 times, bottling the chemistry and charisma of their stage performances into a studio session. The result is both energizing and electrifying - a record fueled by the sharp songwriting and stacked vocal arrangements that have always been hallmarks of the band's catalog, but shot through with the supercharged sonics of their live show.
Fueled by rediscovery, amplification, and a decade's worth of brotherhood, Werewolf is the sound of a rock & roll band reinvigorated.
The Brook & The Bluff will hit the road for a nationwide headline tour supporting the new album starting in March 2026. It'll include stops at DC's 9:30 Club, Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl, NYC's Webster Hall, LA's The Bellweather, and Denver's Ogden Theatre among many others.
Track Listing:
01) Werewolf
02) Get By
03) Can't Figure it Out
04) Super Bowl Sunday
05) Baby Blue
06) 105
07) Gone For The Weekend
08) I'll Have It Down
09) Change My Mind
10) Moving Along
Tour Dates:
03/20 - Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
03/21 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
03/23 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
03/26 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
03/27 - Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company
03/28 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
03/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
04/03 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/04 - Boston, MA @ Big Night Live
04/06 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
04/08 - Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew's Hall
04/09 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre
04/10 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
04/11 - St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall
04/13 - Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
04/14 - Oklahoma City, OK @ The Jones Assembly
04/16 - Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater
04/17 - Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory
04/18 - Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn
04/21 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
04/23 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
04/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
04/25 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
04/27 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
04/28 - Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
04/29 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
05/02 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
05/03 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
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