For some people, myself included, sad songs make them happy, and the Everybodyfields embodied every note of that spirit. I lapped up every drop of melancholy on their 3rd LP, Nothing is Okay,but then (everything was not okay and) they broke up.
Jill Andrews whipped up a solid break-up EP right off the bat, but former partner Sam Quinn wallowed in the split a bit longer, releasing his new solo LP, The Fake That Sunk 1,000 Ships, this spring (May 11) via Ramseur Records.
“This album is so down it’s ridiculous,” he said in a press release (via Paste), adding:
If you’re having a good time, you’re probably not doing something right. A happy song can lift you up for three-and-a-half minutes but sad song can make you feel bad a lot longer. It’s real stuff I was going through, a real bad year in my life so I just wanted to hash it out and get over it. It’s real – it’s not about hopping trains or coal mining or making liquor.
As I’ve never made liquor, hopped a train, or mined coal, this appears to be my kind of record. Check out the tracklist below and/or watch Quinn perform the opening track here.
01 Hello
02 Fanboy
03 So Strong
04 Suite Motown
05 Strange
06 Gun
07 Mardis Gras
08 Help Me
09 Late The Other Night
10 River