"The Soundtrack to a Modern Day Re-make of The Breakfast Club:" Justin Geller Enlists Pissed Jeans Drummer Sean McGuinness for Remote Places' Nights & Weekends EP (Box Theory Records)

"It's a song about someone who is tired of being taken advantage of by the free spirit they're in love with. They're trying to deal with the fact that they're not OK with being just a part-time lover. It sounds like

Ultravox

or a happier version of

The Cure

or any 80's band that [loved] string synthesizer sounds,"

Remote Places

founding member

Justin Geller

revealed within a recent

Tell All Your Friends

press release. Geller, a long-time member of genre-eschewing two to five-man

Philly

-based group

Pink Skull

, has likened his upcoming

Nights and Weekends EP

to "the soundtrack to a modern day re-make of

The Breakfast Club

" and has already drawn comparisons to

New Order

, The Smiths,

The National

, Washed Out, and

Wild Nothing

. Geller and bandmate

Julian Grefe

released four sprawling full-length albums and countless EP's and 12-inches further blurring the lines between glitchy lo-fi

House

,

Psychedelic/Krautrock Indie Dance,

and finally, dark, primal

Acid House

-influenced production work as

Pink Skull

, as well as two ambient LP's attributed to their

Clean Plate

side project.

Esteemed

Los Angeles

area radio station

KCRW

premiered

Remote Places'

debut single,

"Places You Go,"

last week on which

Justin Geller

is assisted by Grefe on guitar,

Mikele Edwards

on vocals-piano,

Mike Hammel

on bass, and

Pissed Jeans

percussionist

Sean McGuinness

manning the drumkit. Grefe, Edwards, Hammel, and McGuinness additionally appear throughout

Remote Places' Nights and Weekends EP

, which was co-produced and recorded by

War On Drugs

and

Kurt Vile

-affiliated engineer

Jeff Zeigler

. "

Mark Robinson

of

Teen Beat Records

and

Unrest/Flin Flon

was contacted to see if he could help establish a visual direction for

[Nights and Weekends]

, and also signed on to produce the first video," which will likely be a

Cure

meets

The National

-esque accompaniment for

"Places You Go."

Justin Geller

's debut "solo" project as

Remote Places

,

Nights and Weekends EP

, will see a release on

Philly

-based

Box Theory Records

this upcoming May 13th and stay tuned to this space for an upcoming interview exclusive to

The Witzard

, coinciding with the EP's imminent release.