Don’t worry, hungry fans, while that might seem like a long wait, a one-song appetizer, out on October 29, can sate those sonic cravings. A lot of these songs are about grieving before you need to grieve and making your peace with it before anything happens. You reflect on the grim reaper from different vantage points throughout the album. (With Bec Stevens, Antonia & The Lazy Susans), Thursday, October 5th Sean Bonnette described this song in a bio provided by the band by saying “Poetry owes nothing to the poet, music nothing to the musician.” This is the first song on the album and the first single they released, and while it is maybe not the best of the singles and not the best song on the album, it’s a wonderful start to the album. He told us, ‘Write as many songs as you can and send them to me, and I’ll tell you which ones I want to record.’ Since then, I’ve started to adopt that method, not so much worrying if a song is a good song, but just making sure that I write a song. The Daily Texan: You’ve talked about experiencing writer’s block while working on past albums. Have I just been out hip-hopped by you?! Opener ‘Temple Grandin’ is scuzzy yet melodic, while the tense euphoria of ‘Children Of God’ is as beautiful and disturbing as the song’s incredible imagery (choice example: ‘I found a weird calling card in a puddle of body parts inside a bowl of angel hearts that the children were eating’). Sign up to see all their posts in your feed. The final version also features backing vocals by Kimya Dawson. In fact, they’ve built a significant cult following since their inception in 2004, one that knows just how heartbreaking, heartwarming and inspiring their shambolic songs can be. It still features his wonderfully weird turns of phrase and oddball word pairings, but this time, his thematic lens is more directly focused on the inescapable atrocities of the world around him. There are some references in my songs where only one person has actually caught them. The legendary Aussie band went so fat as to congratulate AJJ on their style in the film clip, prompting a very shocked (and concise) reaction from the group’s cellist and tour manager, Mark Glick. Club 54, Launceston, TAS “Ben (Gallaty —bassist and vocalist) recorded and produced this one mainly by ourselves,” Bonnette says. “One thing that makes me rather giddy is that without a label or a producer, our listeners will have no one to blame besides us for the way our sound has changed,” laughs Bonnette. “I was living back in Phoenix, Arizona after living in Chicago for a year with my girlfriend. And then there was a bit of struggle to write, a battle against self-doubt that I eventually won, with the help of [producer] John Congleton. When I was a kid, the Heaven’s Gate cult was a really crazy event in my life. Making this record is also the first time the band has been label-free in a while. You can hear just how fun it was when you listen to it. “But for this one, I was trying to write, and all the bad political shit just kept invading my brain and preventing me from writing that way. — mark glick (@anxietymachine) July 19, 2017. Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our terms of use, our cookies policy, and our privacy policy.