Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s Fake Band Blue Jean Committee Share "Gentle and Soft"

Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's Fake Band Blue Jean Committee Share "Gentle and Soft"

Last year, Fred Armisen released a collection of 7″ singles by some of his fictional “Saturday Night Live” bands. One of those bands, the Blue Jean Committee, is a blue-eyed soul band composed of Armisen and former “SNL” co-star Bill Hader. Armisen and Hader are releasing the Catalina Breeze EP via Drag City on November 20, and today, they’ve shared a new song from it called “Gentle and Soft”. Listen to it above.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Armisen talked about the song’s genesis:

The main idea of the band was that they were gentle and soft, so I listened to SiriusXM’s ‘The Bridge’ a lot. Everyone is so smooth and gentle, and they play a lot of the band America and Seals and Crofts and bands like that. I wanted that sound, very smooth and purposefully soft sound that also works as rock. To me, that reminds me of California and the early ‘70s. So the best way to do it for us would be to just spell it out and call the song ‘Gentle and Soft.’

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