Today And So I Watch You From Afar
(ASIWYFA) premier their new single, ‘Run Home’ with DIY Mag. The track
comes from the quartet’s new album ‘Heirs’, due out 4th May 2015 via Sargent
House - and they have announced they will play the Mandela Hall on June 20th
This will be the band’s fourth full
length album following on from their acclaimed release ‘All Hail Bright
Futures’.
Heirs is a personal and meaningful release. “Its central theme is about the inheritance of ideas,” the band says. “In that we’re all heirs to other peoples’ passion, which in turn inspires ourselves.”
Heirs is a personal and meaningful release. “Its central theme is about the inheritance of ideas,” the band says. “In that we’re all heirs to other peoples’ passion, which in turn inspires ourselves.”
“We started making the album while
touring in 2013,” guitarist Rory
Friers explains. “We would be recording demos
in our hotel rooms, back stage and we would even hire out rehearsal rooms
during days off.”
Being the first album with
guitarist Niall Kennedy (who joined as a touring member in 2012), the band took half a year off from the road and working nearly
every waking moment together in their rehearsal room. Friers and Kennedy, along
with drummer Chris Wee and bassist Johnathan Adger amassed about 30 new songs,
which were then whittled down to 15 tracks. Of those 15, only 10 songs made the
final cut, carefully selecting those that best represented the ideas and
feelings the band wanted to express with the album.
“It’s called Heirs as a tribute to a lot of new people who came into all our lives during the writing and recording of the album — lots of nephews and Johnny had a daughter, Eisa,” Friers explained. “It seems like the songs soaked up all those feelings we had during the writing.
“It’s called Heirs as a tribute to a lot of new people who came into all our lives during the writing and recording of the album — lots of nephews and Johnny had a daughter, Eisa,” Friers explained. “It seems like the songs soaked up all those feelings we had during the writing.
"Because making the album was such an intentionally intense and
full time experience none of us where listening to much other music or even
experiencing much else outside of it. So, it feels like a very pure
representation of what happens when these four people decide to make music
together. It was a very intense time and the record has been shaped by that.”
Listen here to get a taste of the new sound.
Listen here to get a taste of the new sound.
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