CURRENT SWELL annunciano il nuovo album! “When To Talk And When To Listen” esc …
‘WHEN TO TALK AND WHEN TO LISTEN’
ESCE IL 12 MAGGIO 2017 SU NETTWERK / BERTUS IL SESTO ALBUM DI STUDIO DELLA BAND CULT DEL FOLK-ROCK CANADESE. IL DISCO È STATO PRODOTTO TRA NASHVILLE & VANCOUVER DA JACQUIRE KING (KINGS OF LEON, TOM WAITS, NORAH JONES, MONSTERS AND MEN)
Melodie tra il cantautorato eccellente e vibrante musicalità. Come il buon rock’n’roll dovrebbe, When To Talk And When To Listen, abbraccia tutti gli aspetti della condizione umana: da un cuore spezzato e un amore respinto del primo singolo “It Ain’t Right” a canzoni che parlano della perdita dei proprio cari. Questi i temi che formano il nucleo emotivo dell’album.
“Anyone can make an album,” says guitarist Dave Lang. “But we knew this record had to be good.”
Artista: CURRENT SWELL
Titolo Album: WHEN TO TALK AND WHEN TO LISTEN’
Release date: 12 MAGGIO
Etichetta: Nettwerk Music Group
Distribuzione: Bertus
Tracklist: 1. Marsha, 2. You Got It Easy, 3. It Ain’t Right, 4. When to Talk and When to Listen, 5. Woman in White, 6. Staying Up All Night, 7. Use Me Like You Do, 8. Thief of Joy, 9. Like I Fight for You, 10. The Time and the Weight, 11. Marsha Reprise
credit Michelle Dowdy
Every song has a story. With Current Swell’s forthcoming release, When To Talk And When To Listen (out May 12 via Nettwerk Records), these stories cut deep.
Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Cold War Kids, Of Monsters and Men, James Bay) produced the album over four weeks in two vastly different locales: Nashville and Vancouver. During the first night at Nashville’s famed Blackbird Studios, King cut short the sessions and told the band to come back when they had something worthwhile to say. A blunt, band-only meeting quickly cured what ailed them. The four friends returned the following day ready to create. “He said we’d finally tapped into that spark he heard in the very first demos we sent him,” recalls lead singer Scott Stanton. “And we knew he was right. It helped create trust. He knew as much about the songs as we did.”
Like all good rock ‘n’ roll should, When To Talk And When To Listen touches on all facets of the human condition, from the heartbreak and spurned love of first single “It Ain’t Right” to songs about the loss of parents that form the emotional core of the album. “Marsha” is about the inner dialogue Stanton often has with his mother, a piano teacher who died at 46 of breast cancer when he was in Grade 9. “She is still part of me in a way, so I often talk to her when I need advice,” he says. “I feel like my mom would be really proud of it.”
Band member Dave Lang wrote title track “When To Talk And When To Listen” when his father-in-law was nearing the end of his life. Lang and his wife were getting ready to welcome their first child around the same time, which felt like a cruel twist of fate. After taking stock of the reality he was facing, Lang says the words came pouring out.
Current Swell has a proven track record – two singles from 2014’s Ulysses hit No. 1 on iTunes Canada’s rock chart, both landing Top 10 on the commercial rock charts in Canada. “For Ulysses, we jammed all the songs, went in the studio and played them,” Stanton says. “For this, we started from scratch. We dissected everything. Out of any album we’ve done, this one really captured what I was hearing in my head.” “It Ain’t Right” is an apt example. Stanton infuses the album’s lead single with a keen eye for relationship details, the band rumbling away beneath him as it reaches an apex. “I thought you were different,” Stanton sings, highlighting the narrator’s serious interconnectivity issues. “I thought you were cool, but it ain’t right.”
The group as whole found a new level of confidence on the recording. Some of that can be credited to King, who pushed Current Swell to find a new side of their artistic selves, Stanton says: “He was like a coach.”
A solid fanbase has taken the group across North America several times and into countries such as Brazil, where a pair of headline tours brought them to thousands of rabid fans. “We’re very comfortable in certain parts of the world with our success,” Lang says. “But I know this record is one that can take us to new places.”
Now, it is time for Current Swell to push back. Lang says the group will take its music to the world this year, showcasing the heart and soul it took to create When To Talk And When To Listen.
“Anyone can make an album,” he said. “But we knew this record had to be good.”
Members: Scott Stanton (lead vocals/guitars), Dave Lang (vocals/guitars), Ghosty Boy (vocals/bass), Chris Petersen (drums)
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