Canterbury, UK. “Living the dream – You can have everything in life you ever wanted and dreamed of… and it does make you happy most of the time.”, says the band is the song about. “People making their lives look like a fairy tale and insanely happy… and then when you run into them they’re actually having a really bad time.”
Inspired by anxiety and depression this high energy song kicks ass but tells an important message at the same time: Being stuck between living the dream and feeling out of place, between feeling great and being envious.
“It was something a bloke I used to drink with would say, he’d have a really positive story always ending somehow on a downer.”, singer Dan Goatham (also known for being in SNUFF) “And he once said “well, it ain’t all peaches and cream.” So I stole it.”
The hammond organ on the song is played by Simon Short, known for his apperance in the Seattle based band The Drowns.
Samiam su bili jako popularni devedesetih, barem su se ovdje među punkerima koji vole melodični punk u Hrvatskoj slušali rado i često. Ja moram priznati da sam tada imao problem s njihovim albumima, jer su mi bili jednostavno prespori i previše pop punk u odnosu na brže kalifornijske melodic punk bendove koje sam tada slušao, no sada mi leže i više nego ikada ovakvi bendovi i bio sam se jako obradovao kada se bend ponovo okupio i počeo svirati i najavljivati novi materijal. Evo nam novog albuma koji sadrži dvanaest pjesama pop punka, ultramelodičnog i senzibiliziranog, no dovoljno čvrstog da to bude onaj pravi punk rock sa srcem i dušom. Ima nešto laganijih pjesama kao što je odlična ‘Monterey Canyon’, ali pjesme poput ‘Crystallized’, ‘Shoulda Stayed’ ili ‘Scout Knife’ savršeno odgovaraju raspoloženju u kojem se nalazite i ovaj album sa svojim odličnim gitarskim melodijama uz ponešto post punk utjecaja, još boljim vokalnim melodijama i backing vokal harmonijama će stvoriti sunčan dan i kada je sivo i oblačno. Odličan povratak benda koji je utjecao na mnoge, pa i mene.
Bloodstrings release their new album ‘Heartache Radio’ on 16 June via Dackelton Records / Broken Silence.
On this musically and lyrically extremely diverse album, the punkabilly foursome presents a new side: instead of zombies and demons, there are political, socially critical, anti-sexist themes. The demons still exist, but they live in us, our society and our spirits and attitudes. But it is also about the themes known from the Bloodstrings: love, depression and alcohol: the desire to break out.
An album like a radio playlist, in which singer Celina, bassist Nick, guitarist Manni and drummer Patrick pour out their hearts once again. ‘Heartache Radio’ was produced by the DONOTS at Heavy Kranich Studio in Münster.
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