New Album Releases: EVERYBODY'S COMING DOWN (The Good Life)

Artist
The Good Life

Genre:
Rock
Alternative Rock
Indie Rock

Total Time:
36:51

Record Label:
Saddle Creek Records

Format:
CD, MP3, Vinyl

Release Date
August 14, 2015

Order links, audio samples and track list after the jump.

Product Description: Omaha, NE’s The Good Life returns this summer with their first album in eight years, Everybody’s Coming Down. Call it a soundtrack to Man’s 21st century existential angst, the album poses cosmic queries, contemplates regrets, questions self-worth, and examines the possibility of living in the moment, when memories are all that we truly take with us. And in some ways, that’s the sweet spot front man and lyricist Tim Kasher inhabits: trying to make sense of this world of ours, and how and why we navigate it the way we do. Everybody’s Coming Down moves in a new direction musically and, in contrast to The Good Life’s earlier releases, is very much a rock record. It is also the first that truly embodies the band as a whole, more so than any previous album.

In blending elements of drummer Roger L. Lewis’s love of classic rock, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Fox’s chaotic approach to melody, Stefanie Drootin-Senseney’s propulsive, tuneful bass parts and colorful vocal arrangements, and Kasher’s deft, complementary song writing, the band sparked a vibrant evolution in sound. The gentler, folk-driven pop/rock for which the band is beloved remains (sonic sister album bookends “7 In The Morning” and “Midnight Is Upon Us;” “The Troubadour’s Green Room”), but it is now mixed amongst guitars lines that unspool in a blaze across songs that hit harder and more viscerally (“Everybody,” “Holy Shit”), as well as moments of distorted psychedelia and moody ambience (“Flotsam Locked Into A Groove,” “Diving Bell,” “How Small We Are”).

Kasher began writing songs for a new album in October 2013, and the quartet – balancing their busy lives and multiple projects – reconvened from July to December 2014 to finish writing what became Everybody’s Coming Down. With the help of Ben Brodin in Omaha’s ARC Studios, The Good Life started recording in January of this year and finished the album in their respective homes. The band then turned to John Congleton (St. Vincent, Baroness, Angel Olsen, Cloud Nothings) to mix the album at his Elmwood Recording in Dallas, TX, looking to his experienced hand and uninhibited style to maintain and further realize the album’s untempered, vital sound.

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•  Buy the Album from iTunes • 
•  Buy the MP3 from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the CD from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the Vinyl from Amazon.com (Includes Download Card) • 

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TRACK LIST:

1. 7 in the Morning

2. Everybody

3. The Troubadour's Green Room

4. Holy Shit

5. Flotsam Locked Into a Groove

6. Forever Coming Down

7. Happy Hour

8. Diving Bell

9. Skeleton Song

10. How Small We Are

11. Ad Nausea

12. Midnight Is Upon Us

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