This February found Kpop group ONEUS making a long anticipated return to the United States for their Blood Moon tour. Head below to see photos from the show.
UK alternative rockers Deaf Havana are returning with one stunner of a fourth album, All These Countless Nights.
After three years, and a struggle with communication and money that almost tore the band apart, theyâre dishing out twelve powerful, diverse tunes, a stunning display of the beauty that can come out of lifeâs hardest times.
This album is not a happy one. A dark cloud hangs over these songs, unforgiving and unshakeable. Their words are angry and sad, and that is by no means a bad thing. Â A nearly palpable pain resonates loudly from their carefully crafted lyrics, and with that pain comes a level of honesty worth respecting. And this pain, this honesty gives listeners who may be going through a hard time of their own something to relate to, a piece of music to lean on.
A reoccurring theme within the album is the heavy use of alcohol vocalist James Veck-Gilodi struggled with in years past. Listeners gain an inside look at this uphill battle through dashes of this subject tossed into many of the albumâs tracks, such as album standout, âFeverâ - âI was beat down and drunk as hell when I lost my home. I guess I knew what was coming for me then,â Veck-Gilodi croons over gritty basslines and crashing cymbals.
Other standout songs include âTriggerâ, its beat worthy of all of the foot-tapping and head-bobbing listeners can muster, and its words ridden with anxiety; and âHappinessâ a piercing acoustic number. â...Because it eats away at everything, but mostly love, and the strength we built between us.â
All in all, All These Countless Nights is an album worth the unsureness that lead up to its creation, worth its three-year wait, and most certainly worth a listen.
On Friday, Griz brought a sold-out party to Detroitâs Masonic Temple for the first of his two-day annual holiday event, Grizmas. Support acts included Big Wild, Gosh Pith, and Flint Eastwood.
On Thursday, Our Last Night and Hands Like Houses came through Pontiac, Michigan on their Face to Face tour, featuring support from The Color Morale and Out Came the Wolves.
In the world of alternative pop and rock music, so saturated with up-and-coming acts, itâs becoming more and more difficult to find a band that brings something new to the table.Â
But something new has crash-landed in the form of Double Dare, the debut album from Houston trio Waterparks.
This album is a bright, warm burst of energy. Itâs one heaping helping of fun. And itâs certainly much more than meets the eye. Though so many of the songs carry the bouncy, unwavering energy so often equated with this band, these tunes arenât all cheer beneath their shiny surface.
âGloom Boysâ says it best: âI like happy songs that sound nice, even with their words like dog bites.â And boy, have these boys found ways to make words like dog bites sound nice.
Above anything else, Double Dare is a dose of unfiltered, refreshing honesty. Vocalist Awsten Knight tells it like it is, whether âitâ involves love, and the loss of it â " âNobody wants to hear you cry about your breakup, so drop it.â Well, that's fine too, because I'm fucking sick of talking about it.â (âPlum Islandâ) â a war within oneâs own head â âDaylight savings gives me time to think, which is the last thing that I want since I don't drink. So I can't numb my feelings to avoid my thoughts.â (âDizzyâ) â or even the Millennial generation in America â âWe're justice warriors when we're bored, you see? Buying bracelets and then channeling. It's basically tradition to lust for what you're missing.â (âMade In Americaâ)
But on no other track will listeners find honesty more piercing than that in âLittle Violenceâ. One of the albumâs standout songs, itâs round after round of lyrical lashes aimed primarily at the fake side of the music industry, one giant musical middle finger to those who wouldnât give them the time of day until they gained traction in the scene: âEverybody wants to be friends. (Now that's convenient.) Where were you last year before we hit the high gear, when nobody cared?â
As well as honesty, this debut offers enough variety to appease all sorts of listeners. What struck me as inconsistency upon my first listen, I quickly grew to see was versatility. Splashes of punchy pop rock such as âHawaii (Stay Awake)â are mixed in with sugary sweet pop tunes like âTake Her to the Moonâ, its electropop nature reminiscent of Cobra Starship in their glory days. The album also contains the bandâs first acoustic track, â21 Questionsâ, Knight singing of a relationship that seems built to spill at any moment: âBut then what? You dropped your guy and took me on, it's everything I wanted. But then what? Would you get tired of my time?â
Double Dare carries a consistent strength throughout it. Its brilliant thirteen tracks allow no room to doubt that Knight, guitarist Geoff Wigington, and drummer Otto Wood put everything they had into every second of each track. This passion, combined with their fresh sound in a music scene packed with been-there-heard-thats is all the indicator needed â Waterparks is about to take things over.
Catch Waterparks out on Sleeping With Sirensâs End The Madness tour. Dates can be found here.
On Friday, Sleeping With Sirensâs End The Madness tour came to Grand Rapids, Michigan, featuring support from Waterparks, Tonight Alive, and State Champs.Â
Last night, From Indian Lakes brought a stunning show to Detroit, with support from Wild Wild Horses, and Made Violent. Head below to see photos from the show.
On the Burgettstown, PA date of the Vans Warped tour, we had the chance to sit down and talk to half of the Australian band making massive waves in the alternative music scene, With Confidence - Guitarist and backing vocalist Inigo Del Carmen (pictured left), and drummer Josh Brozzesi (pictured right).
We chatted about Warped, their debut album, and the impact they want to have on the world.
Head below the cut to read.
Remember the Night Media: How has Warped tour, and touring in America in general been?
Josh Brozzesi: Great. Warped culture is sick. We wake up every day, we have a schedule that we get, we nap, we eat great food. At night, all the buses are parked together, and everyone comes out and hangs out, thereâs a barbecueâŠItâs just sick. Itâs like summer camp, but with heaps of cool bands and good music, and just making friends every day. Itâs awesome.
RTN: And how has this matched up to your expectations, whether good or bad?
Brozzesi: Definitely matched mine. Warped for a band that sounds like us is one of the hugest tours to getâŠI always wanted to come and see Warped, so to come play it is way better. Weâre only a third or halfway through, but everyone told us that it would be the hardest thing weâve ever done, and itâs super tough, and youâll break down, and so far itâs been good vibes. Maybe theyâre right, or maybe weâll have the best summer ever.
RTN: But thatâs good, because then at least youâre prepared for the worst, and anything better than that is fantastic.
Brozzesi: Exactly. So far itâs been all positive, though.
RTN: Especially with it being your first time, thatâs incredible. Who have you been checking out and hanging out with while youâre here?
Inigo Del Carmen: Everybody. Itâs just been a huge party. It was the singer of Mayday (Parade)âs birthday the other day, and he got everyone pizza and had everyone around, and behind his bus, and we chilled out. Everyone mingled, and thatâs the best thing about warped, I think. You go to catering, and you can sit with anyone you want, and just start a conversation, and thatâs how you meet new people. You stand in line for hours, and itâs great because you talk to the people around you and get to learn their story, get to know what theyâve been doing, etcetera, and youâve made a new friend. You see those people every day, so you might as well make the most of it.
RTN: It opens up all these friendships that might not have happened, with it being a cross-genre tour, because a lot of times, regular tours are more constraining.
Brozzesi: Definitely learning everyoneâs name has been a challenge for me. Normally my trick is that, if we announce a tour, itâs only with two or three bands, and Iâll follow everyone on social media, so I see their face and their name every day. Thatâs a good way to learn all their names. But on this tour, Iâm meeting people who are out to do photography, or crew, or not-for-profits, and trying to remember everyoneâs name is tricky.
Del Carmen: I just refer to everyone as, âHey, dude!â
Brozzesi: Itâs cool, because everyone you meet, you share a common interest with, straightaway. Weâre all here for music at the end of the day. Weâve got along with everyone so far.
RTN: And thatâs nice, because to a point, you have to learn how to do that in this kind of setting, because it makes it so much easier.
Del Carmen: And you should do that with everyone, because itâs just a good thing to do.
Brozzesi: And to sit on your butts all day and not socializeâŠThatâs not what itâs about. Everyone says, at Warped, thereâs no room for rockstars, and itâs true.
Del Carmen: I mean, people can have a bad or hard day, you want to nap, thatâs fair enough.
Brozzesi: Those days where I get in my little coffin. We sleep in these bunks that have this curtain that you pull, and itâs pitch black, and you put some headphones in, and escape everyone and everything.
RTN: Now that you have a good amount of touring under your belts, both back home in Australia, and overseas, what have been some standout memories while touring?
Del Carmen: Traveling in general. Each time we get to a new state, or country, itâs just frickin awesome.
Brozzesi: On Warped, playing in the rain was a really good day. There was a big thunderstorm, and everyone got moved into the amphitheater, and the bands were just trying to hold their merch tents down, and to pass the time we were just throwing rocks at Monster cans, like a shooting range. We started playing, and the kids were still in the amphitheater â the storm passed, but the warning was still out â so we were literally playing to not a single person, so all the bands came out in the rain and started moshing for us, on our stage, and then Broadside brought over their whole tent, and kids heard the music when the storm warning passed, and we saw kids literally running from the amphitheater to come watch our set. It was a really good day.
RTN: Do you have a particular favorite place youâve been?
Brozzesi: The New York shows, for me. All three were amazing.
Del Carmen: I love going to New York in general, New York City was amazing.
Brozzesi: For the Pokemon.
Del Carmen: Not even, man. There was that, there was Japan, as well. Japan in general is just rad. Iâve always wanted to go to Japan, and New York. Those are my two standout places. Still got more places to go, though.
RTN: What did you do while you were in New York?
Brozzesi: We saw Times Square, we saw Rockefeller. We saw the architecture, ate some good food, and then we hit up a bar.
Del Carmen: I hit up the Empire State Building. I knocked off from the group and was like âYou guys are getting drunk, Iâm gonna go do something.â
Brozzesi: You do photos, a lot, though.
Del Carmen: So I go on up to the top â one of the things I wanted to cross off my list, because we couldnât go to Central Park. But the architecture is beautiful. I loved all the buildings. But I got up to the top and was like âI can see everything.â Itâs so cool.
Brozzesi: Something wicked about the UK â because in Australia, it got colonized by the English in like 17-something-
Del Carmen: Itâs one of the newest countries in the world.
Brozzesi: Yes, so the oldest buildings are literally just over two hundred years old. In London, we go into a pub and we see a sign and itâs like, oh, this building has been around since the 1100âs. They were serving dudes with swords a beer and-
Del Carmen: They were serving them mead.
Brozzesi: Mead, sorry. But there, everything is old so they donât even care about it? If that was in Sydney, it would have security.
Del Carmen: It would have tape around it, and itâd be like âNO ENTRYâ.
Brozzesi: Yeah, and (In England) theyâre like âOh, that drunk guyâs pissing on the side of that castle. Thatâs fine.â So we loved that. That was different.
RTN: So you guys just put out your debut album Better Weather, via Hopeless records. What would you consider your favorite track?
Brozzesi: For me, itâs âKeysâ. Love the lyrics, I think Ini did a really good job on them. Itâs one that we jammed out a bit to. Probably âKeysâ and âKeeperâ.
Del Carmen: I like âKeysâ and âGravityâ, just because the leads in âGravityâ are just so good.
Brozzesi: Such a good guitar solo.
Del Carmen: I love that song, playing-wise.
Brozzesi: Looking forward to playing some of those songs when we get back to Australia, because we only have a twenty to twenty five minute set on Warped, so weâre pretty much playing singles. And because itâs our first time here. Keen to play some of those other songs.
RTN: What about favorite lyric?
Brozzesi: I know Jayden and Luke always say âDespite the weather, it gets betterâ, because I feel like it kind of summarizes the album pretty wellâŠwhatâs the bridge of âKeysâ?
Del Carmen: âYou are more than the photos on the wallâŠâ
Brozzesi: ââŠHold you in our hearts so that youâll never, ever fall. We are the wind that pushes you home, take a part of us so that youâll never be alone.â I like those lyrics a lot. Theyâre the ones I was trying to write down. Someone was like âCan you write your favorite lyrics?â and like ten minutes later, Iâm still writing.
Del Carmen: Thereâs this one in âDinner Bellâ I likeâŠ
Brozzesi: Outro?
Del Carmen: Yeah. âAmongst the stars we are just the specks of dust.â
Brozzesi: We got to do some different stuff on the album, which was neat. Less straightforward than the EPs.
Del Carmen: Thatâs the thing about an album, you get time to explore things, experiment. You have that time to do shit.
RTN: What was the hardest song to write or create for the album?
Brozzesi: What took the longest?
Del Carmen: âArchersâ.
Brozzesi: Oh yeah, because the mixing process took forever. We were all arguing.
Del Carmen: Not writing wise, just the mixing and production of the entire thing takes fucking ages.
Brozzesi: An album is just a series of decisions, and we are a band where everyone has a different opinion.
Del Carmen: And âDinner Bellâ, we went back and forth so much.
Brozzesi: We changed that up heaps of times.
RTN: Thereâs so many decisions you have to make, and so many things you can do with it.
Del Carmen: And that song in general is really different for us, so we were like âShould we put this on?....Fuck it.â
RTN: How would you describe your music without using genres or comparing it to other artists?
Brozzesi: Happy-sounding music with not necessarily happy lyrics?
Del Carmen: Darker undertones.
Brozzesi: We want it to be music that you can bop along to-
Del Carmen: Happy sad boys.
Brozzesi: Yeah! But we want to talk about serious subjects, not just the pop music that has pretty throwaway lyrics.
Del Carmen: Iâd say the happiest sad music you will ever hear.
RTN: And music like that is incredibly impressive, because you donât notice it at first. Youâre like âOh, this is very upbeat, this is awesome,â and you listen, and then it hits you.
Brozzesi: I think thatâs what weâre trying to do, make music that theyâll hear and theyâll like, and maybe later on theyâll be singing along and theyâll be like âOh, fuck, this songâs kind of dark.â
RTN: And itâs much easier said than done, so the fact that you have been able to execute that so well is impressiveâŠHow have you guys come back from times that you didnât necessarily think this whole thing was going to work out?
Del Carmen: Writing, more writing. Weâd go into Joshâs shed and just jam out and thingsâŠget better.
Brozzesi: Before Hopeless or anything, we all knew we wanted to do album next, so we were like, âWeâll write towards an album, weâll figure out money later on. But for two and a half months, weâd meet every weekend right in my shed, and weâd jam. For two and half months, we didnât like anything we were writing, and then finally, he brought in âKeeperâ. And thatâs why we called it âKeeperâ, because that was the first song we felt had something worth going back to, and we never changed the name.
Del Carmen: Initially, I brought it in, and I was like âThis is what the songâs called, weâre calling it Keeper. Cool. Fine.â
Brozzesi: Every time we first start writing a song, it has a casual name. âGravityâ was called âCreepy Riffâ, because, âOh, that first riff sounds creepy!â What were the other ones called? We had heaps. âI Will Never Waitâ was called âThe Pop Punk Punky Songâ. Angry pop punk! Yeah! I forgot how long we had that song, that song changed so much. It used to be like a metal song...Some of the first songs we wrote were pretty entertaining. We went through a big indie phase, me and Ini. For a while, Jayden kind of dropped out of the band â or, not dropped out, but he was busy, but me and Ini would still jam every weekend and we wrote all these indie, Strokes-y, Jungle Giants-y kind of songs. Jayden came back and he was like, âWhat happened?â âWe had fun!â
Del Carmen: âWe wrote an indie song while you were out!â
Brozzesi: There was a song, I wanted it to be on the album. What was it called?
Del Carmen: Rain.
Brozzesi: Maybe weâll do a B-side. Everyone would be like âWhat?â
Del Carmen: Sounds like Vampire Weekend.
Brozzesi: Thatâs something I like about our band. Sometimes weâll write songs where weâre like âOh, this is not really WithConâ but weâll at least muck around with it.
Del Carmen: Pretty sure we wrote a country song one time, like âWait a second, this is country.â
Brozzesi: Kings of Leon is one of our favorite bands, too, and theyâre like, southern rock and roll. We write songs like that, and weâre like, âThis is mad, we can never do anything with it.â We just have fun.
RTN: Itâs interesting, because as you release more work, itâs clearer and clearer that your music is not just standard pop punk, and itâs more than that.
Del Carmen: Thank you.
RTN: People tend to fixate that label on a lot of music that sounds like this, but itâs broader than that.
Del Carmen: Thatâs what we aim for. Weâre trying to be more than a pop punk band. Happy to have the label, for the most part, a lot of our favorite bands are pop punk, but we have influences, so many, outside of pop punk. I canât think of what genre we want to be a part of. We always try and think of this.
Del Carmen: We just want to be accessible by everyone.
RTN: If you canât fit into one, isnât that good?
Brozzesi: It is good. It also sounds kind of douchey when itâs written down, like, âOh, we donât fit into genres.â
RTN: But itâs better this way, because most people will see that something is a certain genre and theyâll shut it down. This is just good music.
Brozzesi: Thatâs my favorite compliment weâve gotten a little bit on this tour, which is like, dudes wearing Slipknot and Suicide Silence shirts come up and being like-
Del Carmen: âDudes, your music.â
Brozzesi: This guy looked like heâd be into cyberpunk, and I was like-
Del Carmen: âYou probably listen to Ice Nine Kills or somethingâ
Brozzesi: Theyâll be like, âI hate pop punk, I never like bands like you, but you guys are good.â Thatâs sick. Thatâs the best compliment ever, so love hearing that.
RTN: At this point in time, music is transcending more than just one genre and itâs a nice time to be listening to music.
Brozzesi: I know when I was like, thirteen, fourteen, I was a Sum 41, Green Day, Blink fan, I like pop punk, and I canât like music on the radio, because music on the radio is so mainstream, Iâm a pop punk guy. But now everyone listens to everything, which is sick. People just identify music as good, and it doesnât matter whoâs singing, or whether itâs a solo artist or a guy or a girl, people just listen to music. Itâs so good. I really like that.
RTN: With all of these unfamiliar faces coming and being exposed to all this, Â how do you promote to people who havenât heard your work?
Brozzesi: Weâve been working the lines pretty hard every day. We go down, weâve got our little boom box, and we play some of our singles, and it kind of sucks, because I have to listen to the same four songs for like, two hours, and Iâm so sick of it.
RTN: But youâll never forget the words.
Brozzesi: Oh, yeah. Jayden might, though.
Del Carmen: I just run up to people and put the most Australian accent on and go like, âOi guys, if ya love Kangaroos nâ Koalas, youâll love our set. Hully gully.â
Brozzesi: They probably walk away and theyâre like âSomeone needs to translate this, whatâd he just say?â
Del Carmen: Nah, but they love it, and Iâm like âSick, theyâre gonna come see us because I said this, great.â
Brozzesi: We chuck up posters all over the place, every morning and walk our signs around. Warpedâs a big hustle, which I really like.
RTN: So whatâs happening with you guys after Warped?
Del Carmen: We go straight to Manila. We play a few dates there, then we go home for a week, only, and then we play Motion City (Soundtrack)âs last few shows.
Brozzesi: Yeah, theyâre calling it quits, which sucks. Huge influence on our band, Luke has a tattoo of one of their album arts. Itâs amazing we get to play their last shows. Iâm really excited, but itâs a bummer because theyâre amazing.
Del Carmen: After that, I think weâre trying to plan some headlines in Australia. Weâll see what happens.
Brozzesi: Everyone in Australia is like âWhen are you coming back, donât leave us. Youâve been gone for four months.â Itâs really cute.
Del Carmen: Yeah, itâs not like we toured a long time, câmon guys.
Brozzesi: The US has been waiting for like three years. My favorite ones are the ones whoâre like, âIâve been listening to Jayden since his Youtube days, and Iâm like-â [cringes] Every time someone says that to Jayden heâll be like, âI wish I could block that out of history.â Put sticky notes on his face, and stuff.
Del Carmen: Ke$ha will never leave anyoneâs memory.
RTN: What are some things you want to try and make happen?
Brozzesi: Definitely just try and travel places we havenât been yet. I know loads of people want us to come to Brazil, love to make them happy.
Del Carmen: Weâre coming to Europe for the first time, with Knuckle Puck and Real Friends.
Brozzesi: Thatâs gonna be sick. Love to do more European dates, and go more inland.
Del Carmen: Letâs play Russia.
Brozzesi: Yeah, I just want to play in weird places and go everywhere. To do music full-time is the main goal. To tour ten months of the year, and then go home and write and do an album, and just repeat. If we can do this thing full-time, weâll be so happy, because we all just quit our jobs to come on Warped.
RTN: With this momentum, it seems definite, in the future. Youâre on a pretty meteoric rise. So, why should people come and see your set on Warped?
Del Carmen: Because we have Australian accents.
Brozzesi: And because a lot of the bands have played before, and you might love it.
Del Carmen: âŠ.Because weâre Australian.
Brozzesi: Just keep pushing the fact weâre foreign.
Del Carmen: I donât know, thereâs this message we like to convey, as well. The whole mental illness thing. The main thing I want to achieve as a band is to have a message, like Tonight Alive â they have such great morals and they have something they stand for. Thatâs what I want in a band as well. We should have a message that helps people. Thatâs what I want to do - If we ever become a big band, then we should be helping the world.
Brozzesi: We want to do good. Thatâs a big part of it.
Del Carmen: Thatâs a responsibility we should all haveâŠbut thatâs just my opinion.
RTN: Itâs nice, because, not to say that there arenât a lot of bands that try to do more, but itâs nice seeing the bands that are trying to do more than just have fun with it.
Del Carmen: Again, I think you have an obligation, especially if youâre that famous, to have some positive impact on the world.
Brozzesi: If you have an audience, and you donât try and do some goodâŠItâs so easy, like, you look at celebrities and they just put out a tweet, or start a charity kind of thing, and theyâll raise millions, and itâs not even them directly raising it, but just them supporting a cause or pushing a cause. You can do it. I think as we develop a bit more, and once we get our shit together, weâll start trying to do some good. I feel weâre getting towards it.
Del Carmen: Slowly.
RTN: And at least you have the goal in mind. Once you think of that, itâs not going to leave your head.
Brozzesi: With that said, I know you can do good at any point. We could all do more. But weâll get to it.
.[Interview conducted by Ciara Glagola and Sarah Adams]
Catch With Confidence all summer on the Full Sail stage at Warped.
LANY is back with their glittering synth pop and warm poems for lyrics in their new Kinda EP.Â
With half of the summer already setting like the sun, this EP drops just in time for your next road trip before the heat dulls to a chill. These songs will bathe you in sunlight and turn you golden from the inside out. Through feel-good vibes, romantics, and smooth beats, LANY tells the story of an adolescent love from beginning to end. âLike you lotsâ is love blooming. âQuitâ is the purgatory between friends and something more, a constant tug of war. âPink skiesâ is the cultivation of love. âCurrent locationâ is watching that love slip through the cracks between your fingers. âYea, babe, no wayâ is reminiscence and allowing that love to sail away. âWHERE THE HELL ARE MY FRIENDSâ is the recovery period from a love lost.
Have you ever felt like you could spread your arms wide out like wings and fly? It's a deep sensation, and for an instance you experience freedom from reality and from the chains of the world. That's the feeling that âpink skiesâ encompasses. It's jumping off a cliff, wind whispering through your bones, and falling straight into the arms of the person you care most about. It is being weightless. It is jumping off a cliff and falling in love. It is painting the sky with sunset hues, dark yellow and light pink and soft blue. It is love. âGet you under pink skies, I know exactly where we should go, âcause I love the way your green eyes mix with that Malibu indigo. Talking under pink skies, I think our hearts are starting to show. And it's better, you and I, under pink skies.â
Despite its fairly upbeat tempo and alluring electronic melodies, âcurrent locationâ is a very melancholy tune. Frontman Paul Klein's soft voice mixed with the ambient background noise is calming in a nostalgic way. The lyrics, however, create a depth in your chest, a longing. It feels like becoming frayed at the edges. "Don't make me look stupid for waiting just to lose you. Love me, can you prove it?"Â When I listen to this song, I'm sitting in the back of a Greyhound bus on a November night listening to the engine purr while tears stream down my face. I'm ignoring the stares of strangers and gazing out the windows watching the skyline and twinkling lights of Chicago fade into the black blanket of the night. I am longing, nostalgic, desperate, and forlorn. It's that sheer yearning for something you can never have, a haunting feeling burrowing between your lungs. This song will make you feel as if you're the one sitting in an airport watching your loved one board their one way plane without a second glance your way. It is beautifully crafted--a serene song with words that will have you falling.
âQuitâ is glossy pink lips breathing warmth onto your skin, murmuring, âIâm here right now, just be here right now with me.â It is laying in bed, tangled up is fresh sheets as the morning sun filters in through the shades and illuminates the specks of golden dust floating through the air. âQuitâ is the serenity of watching a lover slip out of bed to get dressed just to pull them back into the mattress and will them to stay a while longer. Romance and endearment are sewn into the electronic chords and guitars. Affection reverberates through a tranquil voice. âQuit running away.â
Do you ever miss someone you canât allow yourself to miss? When the world is quiet like a ghost town in the middle of the night and darkness surrounds you, that one person youâre still trying to bleach out of your mind slithers their way back into your head and suddenly youâre reliving every moment youâve ever shared with them. âDamn, tell me where we went wrong. Been in love for so long, now it's over. How, how did we get this far and still not know who we are? Is this really over?â âYea, babe, no wayâ is a lonely song about missing that someone you will never know again, watching them turn their back and drift away into a stranger.
Whenever I introduce someone to LANY, I usually show them âWHERE THE HELL ARE MY FRIENDSâ first. It's one of my favorite songs by them due to its catchy glowing synth beat and relatable lyrics. I've had my fair share of Friday nights alone at home hiding behind a laptop screen probably watching Netflix. "I don't know why I don't have anyone on a vacant night. Where the hell are my friends?" The lyrics are slightly dismal if you take a closer look at them, but overall, it is a song that needs to be sung as loud as you can. It will make you dance and smile and laugh, and you will feel a little less alone on those vacant nights.
All in all, this EP is a work of art and a necessity for your summer playlist. Whether at the beach or in the sun, LANY will have the perfect background music for the moment. You will find love again in the words of these songs. Catch LANY on their upcoming The Kinda Tour, where (as the name suggests) they will be performing these romantic melodies live.
Itâs road trip season, and on the June edition of Sarah Adamsâs monthly playlist, youâll find a collection of songs perfect for those hours on the road!
areudirty
jacobvanloon
jbbartram-illu
snowghoul
pixelskylines
gummygunk
discoholicmusic
germansingergirl
kianamaiart
tangentwithtanner