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Lee Bains + The Glory Fires have joined Don Giovanni Records for an upcoming album to be called Old-Time Folks, which releases on August 5, 2022.

While still half a year away, the band is active now, with a US tour underway (including a busy stop at SXSW) and a new single called "God's A-Working, Man" which is nearly 8-minutes long and captures the group's working class southern rock meets punk aesthetic.

Speaking of the single, Bains says:

In the last couple of years, like a lot of folks I know, I’ve gone through periods of bewilderment and despair about the state of the world, between racist police violence and carceralism, economic austerity and exploitation, gender and sexuality policing, rampant imperialism, the alienation of technology, the ravages of the pandemic. What’s apparent is that the world and its systems can be brutal, isolating, cold, hateful. Folks I look to have suggested I try and look around here in my place, and to look around through time, and look for the ways in which another type of spirit moves through creation. All around is evidence of a liberatory, healing, equalizing, loving, collective, accepting, faithful spirit working through people and places. Those movements unfold through and over generations and decades and centuries. They touch each and every human life. I never fully know where they’re at or where they’re going. But I get glimpses. People working together with that spirit to take care of each other and, in so doing, themselves—to create something on earth as it is in heaven.

The band is scheduled for Tulsa, OK tonight.