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Recorded with Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Merce Lemon) at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC, the album is a gorgeous crystallization of a long winter in the upper Midwest with music that could thaw even the iciest heart.
Based in Milwaukee, WI, the three songwriters and longtime friends in Bicentennial Drug Lord, John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse), have forged an inventive blend of indie rock (Iggy Pop), modern Americana (This Pabst Blue Ribbon), and Ocean Rain era Echo & the Bunnymen (The Gates of Headley Grange). Following up the band’s 2021 EP BDL, the songs on YOU ARE NEVER ALONE burst with lush guitars, catchy choruses, heartbreaking, introspective, funny and literary lyricism, and fabulous and epic outros. The album both acknowledges and breaks with tradition and is ultimately a hopeful take on the spirit of community that is created by a disparate group of people in similar circumstance unwittingly building a life together.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Even if sometimes your only companions are the ghosts from your past and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Recorded with Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Merce Lemon) at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC, the album is a gorgeous crystallization of a long winter in the upper Midwest with music that could thaw even the iciest heart.
Based in Milwaukee, WI, the three songwriters and longtime friends in Bicentennial Drug Lord, John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse), have forged an inventive blend of indie rock (Iggy Pop), modern Americana (This Pabst Blue Ribbon), and Ocean Rain era Echo & the Bunnymen (The Gates of Headley Grange). Following up the band’s 2021 EP BDL, the songs on YOU ARE NEVER ALONE burst with lush guitars, catchy choruses, heartbreaking, introspective, funny and literary lyricism, and fabulous and epic outros. The album both acknowledges and breaks with tradition and is ultimately a hopeful take on the spirit of community that is created by a disparate group of people in similar circumstance unwittingly building a life together.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Even if sometimes your only companions are the ghosts from your past and Pabst Blue Ribbon.