Indie-pop out The Lives Of Famous Men have announced End Times Elevator Music, due 24 April. To celebrate the album announcement, the band have released “Lost In The Branches.”
Frontman Daniel Hall discusses the new song:
“Lost in the Branches” is about algorithmic culture and how all-consuming it’s become. I think back to how the music scene felt in our early days as a band—physical, communal, artist and audience intermingled—and how flat and diffuse things feel now by comparison. I thought trees were an apt metaphor, both for something organic and rooted in place, as well as the cold logic of nodes and branches that decide everything from the songs we’re fed to the news we’re targeted with. And there’s a similar tension in the instrumentation: for a song that pines for the analogue, we created textures that were distinctly electronic—layering synths, sidechaining the drums, and processing the guitars so they had more of an ethereal quality. The effect is something that feels very immediate to me, a sense of being immersed and unmoored.
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
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