Chamberlain guitarist/songwriter Adam Rubenstein will end a 10-year hiatus from solo releases this summer with the Aug. 14 arrival of Firebreak on Spartan Records. The album is led by the single “Still,” which chronicles the Indiana-reared musician’s decision to relocate to Ohio after having spent more than two decades in New York.
“It’s a song about moving and starting over, and coming to terms with the anxiety around that – building new relationships, and maintaining existing ones,” says Rubenstein of the track, which is dappled by pedal steel contributions from Travis Talbert (Mavis Guitar, Wussy).
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Since 2016’s Nightly Waves, Rubenstein resumed performing live and recording with Chamberlain, the influential Indianapolis outfit that largely stopped working in the early 2000s after morphing from the high school-era hardcore band Split Lip. Still, solo material accumulated in significant quantities, and Rubenstein eventually hit the studio with a core band featuring longtime collaborator Pete Wilhoit (Fiction Plane) on drums, bassist Jeremy Nesse and Matchbox Twenty multi-instrumentalist Matt Beck.
Recorded and mixed by Derik Lee, the material on Firebreak ruminates on fatherhood, living in Donald Trump’s America and Rubenstein’s renewed connection to his cousin, late Bar-Kays keyboardist Ronnie Caldwell, which will also be the subject of the upcoming documentary Soul Sound ’67. The guest artists reflect both key early inspirations such as Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, who shows off his signature ftetwork on “Don’t Mean Much,” and musicians inspired by Chamberlain such as Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, who harmonizes beautifully on “Choosing Sides.”
“Although Firebreak is primarily a solo effort, it feels a bit like scoring a new film, where I feel extremely lucky to have so many incredible co-conspirators,” admits Rubenstein, who had the chance to play with Reid, bass virtuoso MonoNeon and lone surviving Bar-Kays member James Alexander in Soul Sound ‘67. “Frankly it’s flattering that musicians I respect so much take an interest in my songs in the first place.
Rubenstein is planning a handful of fall shows in support of Firebreak, with details to be announced.
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