Eraserland, the new studio effort from Strand of Oaks, will be issued via Dead Oceans on March 22. The Timothy Showalter-led project unveiled the LP’s third single “Keys.”
Showalter shared the following about the tune that he wrote for his wife:
“I’ve tried ever since Strand of Oaks started to properly write or express my love for my wife and best friend Sue. We’ve grown up together and without a doubt you would have never heard of me if it wasn’t for Sue. She worked two jobs at the beginning of Oaks just to make sure I could get plane tickets to some tour I would inevitably lose money on and for six records she was the first to ever hear any song I’ve ever written. In a way everything that I’ve written is a love song for her.”
I was a lonely and aimless kid when we first met and it was her unconditional support that gave me the courage to pursue this dream. But Keys is a song about the future and realizing with more years the aspects of life that truly matter and what seems so important in the moment just slips into dust. If you listen to the second chorus you will hear the best and only take we could find where both me and my producer Kevin could get through without tears. ‘I’ll buy us a trailer down in the Keys,’ may be the most honest and true realization I’ve ever expressed to my love. I truly hope anyone listening is loved by someone like I have.”
The 11-track effort features Showalter backed by My Morning Jacket members Carl Broemel, Tom Blankenship, Bo Koster and Patrick Hallahan. Listen to “Keys” below:
