Spanish Love Songs Release Two New Songs

Late last week, LA’s Spanish Love Songs  released two new songs into the wild. The first, Phantom Limb, is a b-side from last year’s Brave Faces Everyone, while the second is a cover of Death Cab for Cutie‘s Blacking Out The Friction. Singer Dylan Slocum explained the reasoning behind leaving Phantom Limb on the cutting room floor of Brave Faces Everyone saying:

We wrote 13 songs for the album. Recorded 11. And 10 made the cut. Phantom Limb is that extra song (and weirdly, it had this title before being left off). We all love the song. Thematically it ties into the story of the record well but when we received the final mixes back and I started sequencing the album in my head, I just couldn’t hear a place for it in the context of the entire album. Whether it’s foolish or not, I still believe in “the album” as a form, so I decided to cut the song.

It’s less of a throwaway b-side and more of a companion to the album. And for a song about loss & missing someone dearly — listening to it after a year indoors, away from everyone I love, I think it might have aged even better by not coming out with the original.”

For Blacking Out The Friction, the band selected that track to cover thanks in part to their  Patreon members which was set up during lockdown.  Each month they would do a poll for songs for the band to cover from their various locations across the US & this was one of the choices.

Both songs can be heard below or on any streaming platform here.