News From The Week That Was
I’m not going to waste too much time with a regular weekly update as we have a big announcement! We’ve talked about it for a while now, and it is finally set to be released. On Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, Songs About Crying will go live to the world.
In the meantime, starting next week, we will be featuring one of the tracks with a ‘history of’ on the song as well as an audio preview. Every Tuesday (I’ll be doing it Monday night, but at different times, so Tuesday it will be guaranteed to be here), there will be a new track, its history, meaning and a chance to hear it before the album comes out. The album cover that you see is essentially a negative of Dandelions – for an idea of why and what’s coming, see the History of “Songs About Crying” below.
A History of ….
Songs About Crying
When we started writing back during the pandemic, we were finding that our songs fit into two general categories – “angry” and “sad”. Originally, we were going to put it all together on the first record, but as we got down to the nitty gritty, it became apparent that the two types of songs really didn’t fit together on one album. We made the decision at that time to split it into two records – the heavier, more upbeat stuff became Dandelions and Failure, and what was left over, we were going to turn into “Songs About Crying”. Much like not every song on Dandelions ended up being angry, not every song on Crying is sad, but there is a unifying theme.
Some of these songs are as old as the first songs from Dandelions – a lot of it was written simultaneously. A few of them are as new as being first conceived less than two months ago, so this really has been a work in progress for more than two years.
If you are expecting more of what happened on Dandelions, you will want to adjust your expectations. As I mentioned a few weeks back, this will be ‘your mom’s favourite Fighting Whiskey album’. For everyone who has ever said, “Scarfo, why don’t you play more piano?” or “Boyne, try and do something a little more serious”, this is the album for you.
Stay tuned next week for information on the first track, “Shivers and Shakes” … fun little video teaser below. Okay .. maybe not fun, it’s just Scarfo playing one of the parts on the piano for less than a minute, but it’s fun to us.
Three Things I’ve Learned This Week
- If you are going to buy groceries for your vegan friend, they’d best be sexy groceries.
- I need to start ignoring my phone on Friday afternoons.
- Learning a Harry Chapin song teaches you an important lesson – Harry Chapin was a dick.