Kent Corley and Brad Prenda of the band Winfield stopped by Live & Local recently, following the release of the band’s new album “III” – their first release in 5 years.
The fittingly-titled “III” is the third release for Winfield, a hard-rocking post-punk quartet that got its start in 2017 – when Corley put out a call for bandmates on Craiglist and Prenda responded.
“We hit it off really well immediately,” Prenda remembers, “and I think we just kind of realized we’re probably good for each other.”
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From there, Corley and Prenda recruited drummer David Bunch and powerhouse vocalist Victoria Roy – and named the band Winfield after discovering that both Bunch and Roy, by sheer coincidence, shared that as their middle name. The band made an immediate splash in 2018 with their debut album “Giant”; that album’s lead single “Daisy Ridley” (nothing to do with its namesake) later made Chapelboro’s list of the 100 greatest local songs of all time, but the depth of the full album made it instantly clear Winfield wasn’t going to be a one-hit wonder.
“(That) first record (was) a little poppier, a little more accessible,” Corley says. “I think this (new) record really reflects the times that it was written in. There’s a darker tone that feels a little more – I don’t want to say claustrophobic necessarily, but definitely a little ‘closer’ than our previous records.”
That new record dropped in late March, co-produced and engineered by Scott Solter (St. Vincent, Superchunk) and James Phillips (Bombadil). Winfield celebrated with an album-release show at Yonder in Hillsborough.
“That was one of my favorite shows we’ve played in a long time,” Corley says. “People were moving around and dancing and having a good time. And it was good to actually have a release show. We didn’t have one for our second, for obvious reasons” – it came out in 2020, at the height of the pandemic – “so it was nice to finally have that experience again.”
Kent Corley and Brad Prenda stopped by Live & Local to discuss the new album and play three tracks, one each from Winfield’s three releases: “Run,” “Giant,” and “Contusion.” Listen:
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