New Knew for you

If an actuary, statistician, or analyst with way too much time on his hands gathered the data and ran the figures, he’d pinpoint what we already knew: It’s tough to make it past three records as a Mile High band. (We lost Hot IQs, Everything Absent Or Distorted, The Pseudo Dates, and Rabbit Is A Sphere before or at the three-album watershed—all in the last year.) Denver band The Knew will try to beat the odds with Pulpería, its third effort—though first full-length—slated for release March 6 at the Bluebird Theater.

The Knew started work on Pulpería last summer with American Relay’s Nick Sullivan at Marcy Sound Studio. Opting to record entirely in analog, messing with the natural reverb and room sounds rather than go at it digitally as it did on previous releases, the band came across new situations not inherent to the laptop studio rig. “About halfway through the mixing process, we got a new board in that was 35 years old,” guitarist Tyler Breuer says. “We found a bag of cocaine in it. Who knows how long that was in there for?”

Following the album release, The Knew will get in the van and head to this year’s South By Southwest, spreading its faux-Southern rock down in Austin. Is a fourth record forthcoming? “Bands come and go all the time. You always hear about some band winning whatever award and then, they’re done,” Breuer laughs. “We’re here.”