{"id":2127645,"date":"2025-10-31T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2127645"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:08:31","slug":"cult-loved-minnesota-duo-now-now-drops-surprise-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cult-loved-minnesota-duo-now-now-drops-surprise-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult-loved Minnesota duo Now, Now drops surprise EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not heard from in seven years, Twin Cities indie-pop duo has suddenly emerged again. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Childhood pals KC Dalager and Brad Hale \u2014 who made it to the late-night TV circuit and hit the road with Paramore as Now, Now in the mid-2010s \u2014 have dropped a new EP, \u201c01,\u201d<\/a> their first new music since the 2018 album \u201cSaved.\u201d The four-song collection hit Bandcamp and streaming apps Wednesday without advanced warning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe aren\u2019t the type of band that can just churn things out for the sake of churning them out,\u201d Hale said in a statement explaining the wait for the new EP. \u201cWe really have to be in a very specific place to start making new music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They apparently got to that place after working on numerous other projects. Dalager issued a solo album in 2023, \u201cThink I\u2019m Gonna Die.\u201d The singer and Hale also have been heavily involved in writing and producing with their Minnesota homie Ber for her series of recent EPs. On the side, Dalager also became a sound meditation practitioner, and Hale got more into audio mixing as well as graphic design for other artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The duo reconvened as Now, Now<\/a> in Hale\u2019s basement studio in Minneapolis and touched on various ends of the group\u2019s old sounds, from the jangly opening track \u201cTalk to God\u201d \u2014 offering echoes of Death Cab for Cutie, whose ex-guitarist Chris Walla signed the duo to his label Trans Records in the early 2010s) \u2014 to the more digi-poppy, Sylvan Esso-like songs \u201cIsn\u2019t It Funny\u201d and \u201cAbout You.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So far, the EP is the only thing on the Now, Now docket. No live shows are on the calendar at the moment. Here\u2019s hoping this is the beginning of a new beginning of an old friendship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.startribune.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not heard from in seven years, Twin Cities indie-pop duo has suddenly emerged again. Childhood pals KC Dalager and Brad Hale \u2014 who made it to the late-night TV circuit and hit the road with Paramore as Now, Now in the mid-2010s \u2014 have dropped a new EP, \u201c01,\u201d their first new music since the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2127646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cult-loved-Minnesota-duo-Now-Now-drops-surprise-EP.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127647,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127645\/revisions\/2127647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}