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Introducing: Heart Bones’ (Har Mar Superstar + A Giant Dog) “Open Relations”

Sean Tillmann (Har Mar Superstar) and Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog) come together for a super-duet-group.

10:00 AM EST on December 5, 2019

Sean Tillmann, better known as Har Mar Superstar, got to know Sabrina Ellis — who fronts both A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit — when they toured together a couple of years ago. They knew pretty quickly that their voices would mesh nicely, particularly on ‘70s-style duets. The duo visited each other’s home bases — Minneapolis and Austin — and came up with a debut full-length called Hot Dish, which will be out in February of 2020. Talkhouse has the exclusive listen to the first track, “Open Relations.” Tillmann told us about it:

“Me and Sabrina are co-writing everything, and we’ve tried to explore many different facets of interpersonal relations, which is a great way to make duets happen. This song is kind of a character who’s in a committed relationship but that wants to go open. It’s the woman that’s wanting to go into the untethered dating world. It’s a pop-song juxtaposition partly about a person being afraid of the loneliness that they could end up being trapped by, by the other person’s freedom. And it’s set to a pop melody, so it tugs at both heartstrings.”

(Photo Credit: Jackson Schwartz)

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