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BROOKLYN | MARCH 2, 2022: Brooklyn indie rock artist Isaiah Singer the single “Plenty Of Time” today on all streaming platforms, the latest in a series of songs dealing with the pain of broken faith. The song rocks like the late seventies Stones, with slide guitar licks and the melodic bass line barely smoothing the edges of the snarling vocal and rhythm guitars.
‘“Plenty of Time” came to me early on in the lockdown. There were four of us in a small one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, and suddenly, that was our entire world. Time, or my perspective of time, changed in a big way. I had no time to myself and when I did, I mostly had to keep it quiet. This rock song was the stifled scream beside a sleeping baby and my wife on a crucial Zoom call. It was the first thing I pulled out when I got back into a band session, and the trio ripped through it ten times in a row – it was a cathartic way to finally revisit the joy of playing live together.”
The song started as a sarcastic plea by the artist to survive the pandemic, but alongside that came the recognition of this shocking lack of concern for life and mass disavowal of science and medicine that gained popularity among the ‘True Believers’ of our nation.
“It pushed me to ponder this vicious, vindictive, anti-humanitarian strain in American culture, and my rancor about that permeates this song. By the way, I don’t actually think that existence is pointless, but people sure do expend a lot of mental energy trying to justify their being. In my view, a cold, quiet infinity awaits us all, so why not just try to keep each other warm in the meantime?”
ABOUT: Isaiah Singer grew up surrounded by music: he passed the hat at the cable car turnaround at Ghirardelli Square while his father played the concertina on a slack rope; his mother ran the children’s choir. His early projects included solo folk recordings with harmonica and acoustic guitar, attending open mics around the SF Bay Area.
Fast forward to New York in his 20s, where he found himself playing with Genesis P-Orridge in Psychic TV. Later bands included incendiary garage punk rockers Snatch Attack and the chamber-punk trio (sometimes octet) Freedom Haters, who played one of the last shows at CBGB before it fell victim to the ravages of fashion.
Over the past ten years, Singer has been collaborating with composer/violinist Sean Hagerty and the Third Rail Projects theater company on shows including the ground-breaking off-Broadway immersive hit “Then She Fell” and “Ghost Light” at Lincoln Center.
Recent sync film credits include “Numbers on the Door” which appears in the experimental film “The Night Garden” presently making the rounds of film festivals with Best Experimental Short Film awards from the Roma, London, Toronto, and Tokyo Film Festivals, to name a few.
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