TRACKLIST:1. Save the Baby2. 20223. Park Lodge4. Blue Iris5. Paranoid6. Somewhere7. Cowboy Bebop8. Can’t Have It9. Jimmy Neutron10. 10th And J 211. ApartmentI wanna wake up brand new Enumclaw lead-singer/guitarist Aramis Johnson sings to beginSave the Baby, their massive-sounding debut full-length, out October 14th via Luminelle Recordings. The album is a swing for greatness; a collection of life-affirming and deeply personal songs about the importance of chasing after your dreams.Not since Nirvana irrevocably changed the rock music scene over two decades ago has there been such unequivocal excitement for a band from the South Puget Sound. Enter Tacoma,WAs Enumclaw, whose early singles Fast N All and Free Drop Billy conjured a swirl ofbreathless praise from fans and choice publications likePitchforkandThe Faderbefore striking a single note in front of a live crowd.Even though they hail from the home of grunge, their influences stretch a bit further; the group isalready well on their way to becoming the best band since Oasis, their earliest motto. Aramissays the band led by the Gallagher brothers is a clear inspiration, given their rise from a working-class background, and not just because his own brother is in the group as well.Says Aramis, In the lineage of rock, Oasis is the last band to go from some random dive bar to a stadium. And if were not selling out stadiums, were not doing it how I wanted to do it. Theemotional stakes of being a massively popular rock band are incredibly clear for Enumclaw who came from a modest and sometimes harrowing upbringing in Seattles sister city, Tacoma.Aramis describes Tacoma as an inescapable component of the bands identity. I honestly thought I was going to move to New York last April, he says. I was gonna take a break fromdoing music stuff, to live in a big city and try becoming a photographer. But the band [and itsgrowing profile] ended up keeping me here in Tacoma.His father passed away from sickle cell anemia when he was just 10-years-old, his mother walked for miles to a job at Subway, and his family subsisted on food provided by EBT cards.His best friend when he was younger was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I feel like if I were the one who had gotten sick, he would have handled it better than I did, he says, the aforementioned survivors guilt heavy in his voice.Those personal experiences heavily colorSave the Baby, titled for the dreams hes preserved since he was a young child to make a mark on the world. Its an album about the importance offollowing your dreams, in spite of romantic relationships going sour and the pressure that comes with being a young Black man who grew up with a fair share of hardships, and about theimportance of following your dreams. On the second verse of Park Lodge, Aramis sings about the survivors remorse of a friends mental health deteriorating as his own rock music stardomwas on the ascent. Its about the feeling of being stuck in Tacoma, he says. Just like a lot ofpeople in the Black community feel like they have to make it out through sports or rapping, I have to make it out with the band. I feel like this is our and the bands only option to do something in a real way with our lives.