Published on July 10th, 2021 | by Darren Paltrowitz
0Jimmy Gnecco On The New “Ours” Album, Life As An Independent Artist, New Jersey, Trixter & More
To most, the story of Ours starts with the group signing with Dreamworks Records after a very competitive bidding war in the early 2000s. Yet the roots of Ours go back many years earlier as Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco was writing some of the material which Ours later recorded in the early 1990s. Ours would later sign with producer Rick Rubin and American/Columbia Records after releasing 2 albums via Dreamworks, while Gnecco’s discography also includes a collaboration Brian May of Queen for the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack, songs licensed to NCIS, CSI and the movie Zero Dark Thirty, and touring alongside the likes of Lana Del Rey, A-Ha, The Wallflowers, Blue October and The Cult.
The latest full-length album from Ours is self-titled, a follow-up to 2018’s New Age Heroine, which was the successor to 2013’s Ballet The Boxer. The long-announced final chapter of the trilogy, Ours was originally planned to be titled “Spectacular Sight” and was released on May 15, 2021. Ours comes exactly 20 years after the release of the first Ours album, Distorted Lullabies. While an original work in its own right, if you have enjoyed any other titles within the Ours discography, then the group’s newest album will definitely be up your alley. In other words, you can expected the layered productions, soaring vocal melodies and epic song structures from prior Ours studio efforts on Ours.
On July 9, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jimmy Gnecco via Zoom, as embedded below. We not only spoke about the new Ours album and the August 2021 tour dates planned in support of it — Gnecco will be joined on the road by keyboardist April Bauer, drummer Chris Iasiello, guitarist Mikey Iasiello abd bassist Carmelo Risquet — but also life during COVID-19, musical influences, his New Jersey roots and his creative process. More on Ours, tour dates included, is here, here, here and here.