Austin, TX-based rock & roll collective Holy Roller Baby have released their first new original A-Side since the launch of their 2020 debut album ‘Frenzy’ with a swagger-filled single “How To Love a Ticking Time Bomb.” The track is the sort of high energy, electric sex that the band has been known to traffic in.
Holy Roller Baby frontman/founder Jared Mullins was inspired to write the track after witnessing a woman dying in front of him during a flood.
“I saw her die, I was there,” shares MULLINS. “I was driving in the country during a very bad thunderstorm–the kind you’re normally supposed to take cover for. I didn’t. I was dumb. I kept driving even as the water on the road piled up and eventually became too much for myself and a batch of equally arrogant drivers who thought they could weather any storm. Eventually the water levels rose so much it flooded my car as I came to an underpass. The bridge water was high and as I came to a stop, I saw in the distance that a few other drivers were helping a woman who couldn’t get out of her car. That image has stayed with me for a lifetime. I’ve never forgotten that image and I’ve never forgotten the way this song made me feel–wild, alive, and helplessly human at the same time. Every time it comes on, I think of the woman in the water.”
Holy Roller Baby enlisted producer/engineer Ian Davenport (Radiohead, Band of Skulls) and Casey Di Iorio to record “How To Love A Ticking Time Bomb” at Valve Studios (Blues Traveler, Bowling For Soup) in Dallas earlier this year. Ahead of its digital release (January 26th), the collective will release an accompanying visualizer.
Holy Roller Baby have spent the past few months in the UK with Davenport at Radiohead’s Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire working on their sophomore album due out later this year. Stay tuned for more information in the coming months.
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