As years go, 2020 hasn’t been all that hot. Not to us, not to most people. Environments like this – once the basic set in the hierarchy of needs is met – usually kick us into creative ways to vent our experiences.
Yell at the world, if you will.
So when self-quarantine and masks and economic problems and injustice and riots and Murder Wasps came, the brothers let it out in new ways, and a new set of tracks was pushed out: A fleshed out and conceptual whole. Backbeat-heavy, sometimes danceable, hopeful chord progressions laced with a bit of the craziness that is this time we live in.
This is the downcast album we thought – we hoped – the brothers would never produce. But we’re nothing if we don’t have a smile on, so it’s got one. Maybe not that genuine, but it’s there. It’s Happy To Be Here:
Hitting the streaming platform of your choice 7/24/20.
But before that – One of the tracks – Grouse – has been single-ized:
You can pre-save it if you want to be ready the moment it’s available. Do that here.