WHITE NOISE Noah Gundersen

• 1 AFTER ALL (EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME) 04:02
• 2 The Sound 04:18
• 3 HEAVY METALS 05:31
• 4 Number One Hit of the Summer (Fade Out) 05:08
• 5 COCAINE, SEX & ALCOHOL (FROM A BASEMENT IN LOS ANGELES) 07:08
• 6 BAD ACTORS 03:32
• 7 FEAR & LOATHING 06:13
• 8 SWEET TALKER 05:40
• 9 NEW RELIGION 04:10
• 10 BAD DESIRE 04:13
• 11 WAKE ME UP, I'M DROWNING 06:44
• 12 DRY YEAR 05:11
• 13 SEND THE RAIN (TO EVERYONE) 05:22
• Total Runtime 01:07:12

Info for WHITE NOISE

Noah Gundersen's 3rd studio album White Noise, out September 22nd via Cooking Vinyl, is a complete departure from his previous work as a singer-songwriter.

Two years after the release of his highly acclaimed LP Carry The Ghost,Seattle native Noah Gundersen is ready to debut his newest body of work entitled White Noise, out now through Cooking Vinyl.

White Noise is Gunderson’s first real foray into the UK and his third full-length LP. Noah gained recognition with songs featuring on TV shows Sons of Anarchy, The Vampire Diaries and The Following as well as an Emmy nomination for his Sons of Anarchy co-write Day Is Gone and live performances along side Emmylou Harris, Beck, City & Colour and Josh Ritter.

The conception of White Noise started long before Gundersen stepped into his homemade studio, nestled inside a 1600 square foot loft on the marina in Seattle, Washington. “At the beginning of 2016, I walked on stage and was met with a feeling of overwhelming emptiness,” Gundersen revealed. “I imagined a career playing music I didn’t believe in and was terrified.” After his set, a fellow songwriter expressed a quote to Gundersen from famed choreographer, Martha Graham: “No artist is ever pleased… There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” From there, something awoke in Gundersen that can now be best described as the 13 tracks that embodyWhite Noise. With its wall-of-sound production style and notably mature, almost world-weary lyrical motifs and musings on modern-day culture, this new album represents the culmination of Noah’s writing and production efforts.

“White Noise is a sensory overload,” Gunderson explains. “Fear, anxiety, desire, sex, lust, love. White Noise is the place between waking and dreaming, where the edges blur and the light is strange. It’s a car crash, it’s a drowning, it’s everything all the time.” It is these sentiments that embody the 13 sprawling tracks that embody White Noise. Each song is a journey through rock, Americana, blue collar and folk that tap into those feelings brought about by the sense of dissatisfaction and emptiness that preceded the album’s inception.

„White Noise is a sensory overload,” erklärt GUNDERSEN. “Fear, anxiety, desire, sex, lust, love. White Noise is the place between waking and dreaming, where the edges blur and the light is strange. It’s a car crash, it’s a drowning, it’s everything all the time.”

“Like a cinematic scene reaching its wistful apex” (Consequence of Sound)

“A new energy and the same captivating vocals as ever” (Gigsoup)

“Melancholy, beautiful pop that explores some of living’s hard questions” (Pop Matters)

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Noah Gundersen
For a musician just a few years shy of 30, Noah Gundersen displays a remarkable sense of self-awareness. He’s not really an “old soul,” so to speak—but someone who conveys a keen sort of cognizance of himself in the way one does when the act of questioning belief, of questioning the world around him, has been ingrained from childhood.

Gundersen is the product of a lifetime of pushing boundaries and learning to craft his own perspective. His parents, although devoutly religious, encouraged a questioning of dogma and church hierarchy. They also instilled in him a love of music from an early age. Along with starting Noah on piano at age nine, Noah’s father taught him melody and tracked songs to a reel-to-reel tape recorder while Noah was growing up. Consequently, Noah started writing and recording himself at age 13, diving headlong into music, forming and leading bands, involving himself in the small but vibrant hardcore scene of Centralia, Washington, and writing prolifically all the while. After quitting his day job at 18 and spending a year living out of his car and on couches, playing small bars and coffee shops, Noah began to build a dedicated following and garner interest from the music industry.

Noah’s canon of albums and EPs delineates a clear path of growth from past works like his Family EP and his full-lengths Ledges and Carry the Ghost. Family, released in 2011, proved to be the endeavor that gained Noah’s songwriting skills acclaim on the national stage—the title track was featured on the TV shows Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries, while the song “David” was featured on the show The Following. Noah was also nominated for an Emmy for co-writing the tune “Day is Gone” for Sons of Anarchy. And recently, he’s opened up for internationally acclaimed, genre-spanning artists like Emmylou Harris, Beck, City & Colour, and Josh Ritter.

His later LPs, Ledges and Carry the Ghost, were both self-produced and represent the budding efforts of a musician coming into his own. Ledges was hailed by PopMatters as “fearless and arresting…a record with much broader appeal than its genre tags.” Carry the Ghost, which came out shortly after Ledges, was Noah’s first foray into recording a full band, one of the many steps in arriving at White Noise, which, with its wall-of-sound production style and notably mature, almost world-weary lyrical motifs and musings on modern-day culture, represents the culmination of Noah’s writing and production efforts. Even Magnet Magazine took notice in Noah’s new direction on Carry The Ghost, noting that it “has a darker, somehow even more melancholy vibe that brings Gundersen’s fragile songwriting even closer to Jeff Buckley’s.”

After an intense songwriting and production process, Gundersen’s newest musical offering comes with the release of the first single off White Noise, “The Sound,” July 10th via Apple Mu-sic and Spotify. White Noise is available through Cooking Vinyl on September 22nd 2017.

This album contains no booklet.