After a nine year lag, it’s time to get back on the wagon with the powerful and long-awaited album Hang from punk rock mainstays Lagwagon.
It’s not that the band broke up or even went on hiatus after releasing 2005′s Resolve. They’ve continued a robust tour schedule, and frontman Joey Cape has released a steady stream of original material as a solo artist and with his other projects Bad Astronaut, Scorpios, and Bad Loud (not to mention cranking out cover albums with his other other project Me First and the Gimme Gimmes).
"I’m writing all the time," says Cape, "but a lot of times it doesn’t feel appropriate for Lagwagon. It’s not who the band collectively is at the time, and the mold is constantly changing. Sometimes it takes a decade for all the stars to align!"
That celestial harmonic convergence finally happened a few years ago when the band was on tour. "The lightbulb over the head came on, and I knew what the record would sound like and what we’d be saying. It’s less of the ’90s punk rock style we’re known for. But this is the record my band wanted and needed to make."
Indeed, the overall sound of Hang is darker and more hard-charging than some of Lagwagon’s best-known work, as they address themes including loss, betrayal, aging, the environment, and the plight of the common man. It’s not a totally bleak picture, though: all that disconnectedness underscores the need to make emotional investments, ensuring that empathy doesn’t in fact become obsolete.
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It’s not that the band broke up or even went on hiatus after releasing 2005′s Resolve. They’ve continued a robust tour schedule, and frontman Joey Cape has released a steady stream of original material as a solo artist and with his other projects Bad Astronaut, Scorpios, and Bad Loud (not to mention cranking out cover albums with his other other project Me First and the Gimme Gimmes).
"I’m writing all the time," says Cape, "but a lot of times it doesn’t feel appropriate for Lagwagon. It’s not who the band collectively is at the time, and the mold is constantly changing. Sometimes it takes a decade for all the stars to align!"
That celestial harmonic convergence finally happened a few years ago when the band was on tour. "The lightbulb over the head came on, and I knew what the record would sound like and what we’d be saying. It’s less of the ’90s punk rock style we’re known for. But this is the record my band wanted and needed to make."
Indeed, the overall sound of Hang is darker and more hard-charging than some of Lagwagon’s best-known work, as they address themes including loss, betrayal, aging, the environment, and the plight of the common man. It’s not a totally bleak picture, though: all that disconnectedness underscores the need to make emotional investments, ensuring that empathy doesn’t in fact become obsolete.
After a nine year lag, it’s time to get back on the wagon with the powerful and long-awaited album Hang from punk rock mainstays Lagwagon.
It’s not that the band broke up or even went on hiatus after releasing 2005′s Resolve. They’ve continued a robust tour schedule, and frontman Joey Cape has released a steady stream of original material as a solo artist and with his other projects Bad Astronaut, Scorpios, and Bad Loud (not to mention cranking out cover albums with his other other project Me First and the Gimme Gimmes).
"I’m writing all the time," says Cape, "but a lot of times it doesn’t feel appropriate for Lagwagon. It’s not who the band collectively is at the time, and the mold is constantly changing. Sometimes it takes a decade for all the stars to align!"
That celestial harmonic convergence finally happened a few years ago when the band was on tour. "The lightbulb over the head came on, and I knew what the record would sound like and what we’d be saying. It’s less of the ’90s punk rock style we’re known for. But this is the record my band wanted and needed to make."
Indeed, the overall sound of Hang is darker and more hard-charging than some of Lagwagon’s best-known work, as they address themes including loss, betrayal, aging, the environment, and the plight of the common man. It’s not a totally bleak picture, though: all that disconnectedness underscores the need to make emotional investments, ensuring that empathy doesn’t in fact become obsolete.
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It’s not that the band broke up or even went on hiatus after releasing 2005′s Resolve. They’ve continued a robust tour schedule, and frontman Joey Cape has released a steady stream of original material as a solo artist and with his other projects Bad Astronaut, Scorpios, and Bad Loud (not to mention cranking out cover albums with his other other project Me First and the Gimme Gimmes).
"I’m writing all the time," says Cape, "but a lot of times it doesn’t feel appropriate for Lagwagon. It’s not who the band collectively is at the time, and the mold is constantly changing. Sometimes it takes a decade for all the stars to align!"
That celestial harmonic convergence finally happened a few years ago when the band was on tour. "The lightbulb over the head came on, and I knew what the record would sound like and what we’d be saying. It’s less of the ’90s punk rock style we’re known for. But this is the record my band wanted and needed to make."
Indeed, the overall sound of Hang is darker and more hard-charging than some of Lagwagon’s best-known work, as they address themes including loss, betrayal, aging, the environment, and the plight of the common man. It’s not a totally bleak picture, though: all that disconnectedness underscores the need to make emotional investments, ensuring that empathy doesn’t in fact become obsolete.
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