Cody & The Blackouts weave irresistible, melodic pop-rock with insightful, inventive lyrics in genre-defying songcraft—and it’s only the Los Angeles, CA-based group’s sophomore album.

Leader Cody Hudock grew up in Los Angeles with a father and older brother who were both songwriters, and Cody gained some early performance experience playing keys in his older brother Jordan’s popular LA indie bands. In 2014 Hudock linked up with multi-instrumentalist and composer Jordan Bennett to collaborate on The Great American Album. Together, they recruited drummer Brent Stranathan and bassist Will Weissman to round out the lineup. When they entered the studio to record in 2017, they found the final piece of the puzzle: Hudock’s wife Joanna, whose distinctive, expressive voice effortlessly raises the songs’ emotional stakes.

The band had been playing together regularly for just over a year when they set out to record Gold. “We had gotten so tight as a band, that we decided we would look to record an album by tracking as much of it live as we could, and sure enough we knocked out the bulk of the tracking in just three days,” says Hudock. Following Bennett’s move to Atlanta, the band was fortunate to add seasoned session guitarist/songwriter Jimmy Holman into the fold.

Hudock told Elmore “This song is one of the few ways I’ve been able to put my expensive degree in History to use… I’ve always been fascinated by these specific moments in time where a fresh idea “clicks” with the collective, and seemingly raises us all up to a higher vibrational energy. In the song I picked three distinct points in history that forever changed our tastes and comprehension of the world: Gutenberg’s printing press, which heralded the start of the Modern Era, Freud’s psychodynamic theory, which birthed modern psychology, and the Beatles, whose unique style and orchestration inspired and continues to inspire so much of popular music.”

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Hudock and multi-instrumentalist Brent Stranathan launched Cody & The Blackouts in 2017. Gold finds Hudock and Stranathan joined by guitarist Jimmy Holman, bassist Will Weissman, vocalist Joanna Hudock, as well as former band member and longtime collaborator Jordan Bennett on guitars and other instruments. The album was produced by Ethan Kaufmann (Avril Lavigne, Wild Party) and Brent Stranathan, and mixed by veteran Capitol Records engineer Chandler Harrod (John Mayer, Neil Young).

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