Exitmusic is thrilled to announce their sophomore album The Recognitions out April 20 via new label home felte. The Recognitions is available to preorder now at Bandcamp and follows upExitmusic's critically acclaimed debut Passage which gained notice from the likes of NPR Music,Pitchfork, Interview Magazine, NME and more. Today, Exitmusic have shared the album's first single, “I'll Never Know” with NPR Music and the song is streaming to share at Soundcloud.
While many couples can trace the real time rise and fall of their relationship back to social media feeds and harried phone calls, Aleksa ll and Devon Church have channeled the highs and lows of their storybook courtship into something else entirely: the explosive, discomforting confessionals of Exitmusic. The mercurial project started the year they got married (2004) and all-but-imploded during their recent divorce, but not before the duo wrapped its most fully realized collection of beautifully damaged music yet titled The Recognitions.
It wasn't easy, though, for the band has always had to balance its writing and recording sessions withPalladino's career as an actress in such acclaimed television shows as Halt and Catch Fire, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire. Not to mention such art-house films as Storytelling and Sidney Lumet's (see also: Network, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men) final movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Aleksa is presently filming a role alongside Robert De Niro on Martin Scorsese's The Irishman while Devon is working on a solo record.
“Our relationship finally cracked when Aleksa took a break from recording to work on a film in Iowa,” explains Church. "It takes place on a lake so deep, indigenous people believed it had no bottom, and was a portal to the spirit world. When Aleksa returned from shooting, I could tell immediately something major had shifted. She described an experience of standing up in a boat on the lake and seeing her reflection in the water, and having the realization that we had only been living on the surface of life-that there were fathomless depths to be explored if we were able to set each other free.