The Surprise Years chief Dan Campbell is bringing his folk-punk challenge Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties again for a brand new album. In Lieu of Flowers, due out on April 12 by way of Hopeless Data, continues the story of Campbell’s alter ego Aaron West, established on 2014’s We Don’t Have Every Different and 2019’s Routine Upkeep. Right here’s extra from the press launch:
The brand new album picks up the place Routine Upkeep left off, ranging from the solo excursions that Dan went on shortly after its launch — onstage, he talked about leaving the band to take care of his grieving sister Catherine and nephew Colin, however that solo touring felt like shit. The band quickly obtained again collectively — as documented on their Dwell From Asbury Park album recorded over the course of two December 2019 reveals.
Within the interceding years, Aaron is compelled to lastly are likely to the injuries he’s ignored for over a decade, and that brings us to In Lieu of Flowers.
It’s a triumphant sort of melancholy that colours this whole document as Aaron learns that issues don’t go away simply since you ignore them. Its message is pushed house because of the 16-piece band that helped deliver it to life with guitar, accordion, keys, banjo, pedal metal, trumpets, trombone, saxophone, cello, and violin.
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The primary single is the anthemic, country-tinged title monitor, which makes use of that 16-piece band to nice impact. Watch the accompanying video beneath.
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties will have a good time the discharge of In Lieu of Flowers at Asbury Park’s Asbury Lanes on April 11, which can also be with Lake Saint Daniel and By no means Higher Child. Tickets are on sale now, and for many who can’t make it in particular person, it’ll additionally stream dwell.
In Lieu of Flowers tracklist
1. “Smoking Rooms”
2. “Roman Candles”
3. “Paying Payments on the Finish of the World”
4. “Monogahela Park”
5. “Alone at St. Luke’s”
6. “Whiplash”
7. “Spitting within the Wind”
8. “I’m an Albatross”
9. “Runnin’ Out of Excuses”
10. “In Lieu of Flowers”
11. “Lifeless Leaves”
