MP3 Download: Harriet's Debut Single 'I Slept With All Your Mothers'

Harriet, 'I Slept With All Your Mothers'

Emily Knecht

Click to listen to Harriet's 'I Slept With All Your Mothers'

Los Angeles-based band Harriet is gearing up to release their debut EP, Tell The Right Story, on January 31st. Harriet is fronted by former Dawes and PAPA member Alex Casnoff, who was inspired by his experiences as a touring musician when he wrote the band's debut.

The release's lead track is the dynamic, piano-driven "I Slept With All Your Mothers," which Casnoff says, "was sprouted from a lot of conflicted feelings. We were trying to echo that in the music. Mixing pretty ambiance and lap steel with the anxiety of the relentless piano chords and the heavy ending."

Random Notes

Harriet's debut EP Tell The Right Story won't be released until January 31st, but you can download "I Slept With All Your Mothers" for free here.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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