For those unaware, blues-rock outfit The Cold Stares channel Son House, Blind Willie Nelson on cinematic, gospel blues track, Throw That Stone, of which that song will also be featured on the band’s explosive new full-length album Voices, out March 3rd, 2023 via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group.

Self-produced by the band and recorded almost entirely over the course of just two days with engineer Mark Needham (Taj Mahal, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Walk the Moon, Fleetwood Mac), The Cold Stares’ new album stands as the band’s most mature, eclectic collection yet, balancing gritty muscle and tender emotion in equal measure.

The release of Throw That Stone follows previous single The Joy, which draws from Pink Floyd as it revels in the happiness that comes with finding your true soulmate. This song takes a step outside of our normal catalog and tackles the topic of finding happiness after heartache, Tapp explains.

1. Nothing But The Blues
2. Come For Me
3. The Joy
4. Lights Out
5. Got No Right
6. Sorry I Was Late
7. Voices
8. Waiting On The Rain
9. Sinnerman
10. Throw That Stone
11. It’s Heavy
12. Thinking About Leaving Again
13. The Ghost

This brilliantly propulsive, hard rocking, yet soulfully-hued new recording opens on the foot-to-the-floor blues-rock guitar monster Nothing But The Blues and the rhythmically layered Come For Me and they are followed by the mid-tempo The Joy, the down and dirty blues of Lights Out, and then we get the melodic AOR of Got No Right and the veritably shimmering balladry of Sorry I Was Late.

Up next is the aching blues of the titular Voices and their power trio sound then comes to the fore on Waiting On The Rain and they are in turn backed by the cinematic-hued Sinnerman, the Gospel-fueled yearn within Throw That Stone, the album rounding out on the western overtones of It’s Heavy, the slow, yet nonetheless dense roll of Thinking About Leaving Again, coming to a close on the internal balladry ache of The Ghost.

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The Cold Stares - Throw That Stone (Official Lyric Video)