For Immediate Release:

October 2, 2024

AVANT-POP PERSONA GEORGE STEEL MAKES A CASE

 FOR THE PRESIDENCY WITH NEW SINGLE - LISTEN

“THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT” 

ACTS AS A FAUX PATRIOTIC LOVE LETTER TO AMERICA 

WITH DIGICORE LYRIC VIDEO - WATCH

FINAL PREVIEW OF DEBUT ALBUM

DESIRE ON THE RANGE

ARRIVING THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2024

Photo credit: Blake Nelson [Download Hi-Res Artwork]

Following last night’s Vice Presidental debate, the rugged, avant-pop brainchild of Michael Quint, George Steel is excited to share the final preview from his debut record, “The Next Great American President.” Embodying the entire psyche of Steel, today’s ballad digs deep into how difficult it can be to loved. Featuring production from collaborator Ernesto Grey (prod. for Font, Farmer’s Wife), the song captures the strife Steel carries inside as he chases a utopian ideal that can't break out of his own ideological scaffolding. His debut album, Desire on the Range, arrives this Friday, October 4, 2024, with an album release show at New York City’s Bowery Electric the day after.

“I was in love in America. It's a love song," explains Michael Quint. “How can you love anyone here? It makes perfect sense.”

“I wanted to take the sentiment of the lyrics and translate them into a production that felt equal parts faux-patriotic and melancholic," says producer Ernesto Grey. “I sampled directly from military marches with the intention of channeling a traditional marching band into a buzzing mix of emotions.”

The lyric video “The Next Great American President” also premieres today, which details what we can expect from a George Steel presidency and acts as ‘the presidential campaign moodboard.’ Made by creator Kevin Jay Z, the video captures the times we are living through, along with what we can expect from President George Steel.

LISTEN TO “THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT”

WATCH THE OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO 

FOR “THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT”

The final offering from the upcoming album, “The Next Great American President” introduces listeners to Steel’s deeply emotional side, showing off a soft interior behind the literal steel exterior. Last month’s single “Pleasure is the Place” anthemically embodies all the hallmarks of the George Steel aesthetic–a theatrical and Americana-obsessed rock star. Though sonically broader than Steel’s debut “Not a Cowboy,” the desperation of wishing pleasure could cure everything fits right into the George Steel psyche with his ostentatious vocals. The aforementioned debut single premiered last month, complete with a DIY-style music video that introduced listeners to the man himself. The soon-to-be-released debut album, Desire on the Range, promises to be just as glorious in its sound.

LISTEN TO “PLEASURE IS THE PLACE”

LISTEN TO “NOT A COWBOY”

WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “NOT A COWBOY”

With the imminent release of Desire on the Range, Quint and his band: pianist and arranger Nico Fennel, cellist Evan Rycebusch, guitarist Jack Rush Kelly, bassist Alex Kan, drummer Seamus Holland, and vocalist Frances Hoggard, are actualizing the character of George Steel and establishing themselves as a live band. With many more character-driven performances to come, see below for information on their upcoming album release show.

★ GEORGE STEEL LIVE ★

OCTOBER

5 - Bowery Electric - New York, NY (album release show)

GEORGE STEEL

DESIRE ON THE RANGE

Release date: October 4, 2024

Desire On The Range artwork [Download Hi-Res]

1. The Next Great American President

2. Pleasure Is The Place

3. Not a Cowboy

4. Wrong (feat. Lady Dan)

5. Times Square Nuclear Zone

6. Sunday Service

7. Tease The Horse

8. Not A Saint

9. Irene

10. The Range

George Steel started as a voice. While working on a nondescript pop song with a friend, an improvised bass riff gave way to a style of singing Michael Quint had never explored before. The voice had a weight and depth, a theatrical heft, that birthed the persona of George Steel. Quint entered into a contentious relationship with Steel, attempting to figure out who he was and what he had to say. To facilitate the process Quint reached out to Ernesto Grey, a producer he had previously worked with in Austin, Texas. During a phone call outside of a Blink Fitness, a raucous Quint explained his vision of George Steel to Grey, and Grey, willing to entertain him, invited Quint to fly out and record. In early 2023 Quint and Grey began to establish a new sonic world that built character-based avant-pop out of folk and Americana roots. The duo took inspiration from the richness of Scott Walker’s voice and the theatricality of Orville Peck and Walt Disco, while drawing from (and subverting) the sonic and lyrical absurdities of Kirin J. Callinan and Father John Misty. 

With the help of over 20 musicians from Austin (including members of Font, Lady Dan, and Loveme) George Steel’s debut album, Desire on the Range, became real. Steel’s life took shape—a snake-oil selling American rock star, a mythic man born outside of a Gun Barrel City strip mall— Steel is a totemic purveyor of music to die joyfully to. Starting his career as a run-of-the-mill folk singer, divine punishment for his hubris left Steel with hands of steel. Now less than human, Steel sings with an unmatched conviction about love in a world collapsing under its own exuberance.

The space between Steel and Quint allows for earnestness, and Grey’s experimental and open production plays with this. These are songs that find ecstasy in the follies of Americana: the wild pop anthem “Pleasure is the Place" gives us a glamorous Steel desperately wishing that Pleasure could cure us all, and on the country song “Wrong” Tyler Dozier of Lady Dan points to a falseness in Steel’s heart. “Sunday Service,” an aggressive pop track, exposes and explores the dark sides of Steel’s ego. “Irene” a Black Country New Road inspired ballad, has Steel singing to Saint Irene about his confused memories of once being her, and his desire to go back and heal Saint Sebastian, whom she is fated to save. It’s a gleefully diverse sonic portfolio, held together by Grey’s production and Quint’s bold vocal style and lyrics.

Quint, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, brings the character’s tensions to the stage as he embodies Steel and delivers truthful, intense performances with his “backing band:” pianist and arranger Nico Fennel, cellist Evan Rycebusch, guitarist Jack Rush Kelly, bassist Alex Kan, drummer Seamus Holland, and vocalist Frances Hoggard. As they get ready for the release of Desire on the Range, Grey and Quint have enlisted Fennel (who has also produced for Quiet Light) to begin work on a self-titled sophomore album. 

Photo credit: Blake Nelson  [Download Hi-Res]

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Press contact:

Kenzie Davis, Big Hassle Media

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