This Friday, November 11, Communist Daughter will celebrate the release of their latest album, The Cracks That Built the Wall, with a show in their Twin Cities home base at Minneapolis’ First Avenue.

Communist Daughter is led by Johnny Solomon of Friends Like These who recorded their group’s debut Soundtrack to the End, in 2010, at a time in his life in which addiction and metal health problems derailed his career. While he faced another personal setback  following the release of Soundtrack to the End he has recovered and is making poignant new music with his band which features his wife Molly Solomon on vocals), bassist Adam Switlick, drummer Steven Yasgar, Al Weiers on guitar and Dillon Marchus on keys.

The Cracks That Built the Wall, is the product of a two-year process in which the band worked with producer Kevin Bowe (Replacements, Meat Puppets) to best capture the personal tone of the material. As one early review of the new record raves, “Though there’s a wide melancholy streak running through these 11 new songs, there’s an air of redemption, too, mixed with the quiet resolve of someone determined not to lose himself again.”

Today we premiere the official video for “Balboa Bridge.” The Band tells us, “Even though we’re from St. Paul, MN, we have some ties to San Diego, so we spend a lot of time there. The song is about a bridge in the middle of Balboa Park in San Diego, so it only seemed right to film the video in San Diego as well. Molly and I were out on an acoustic tour on the west coast when we hooked up with Adam Dunn, a Minneapolis transplant living out there. The song is about dreaming of an escape, the video is an escapist dreamscape…”