Radio Waves (Tone Tree) marks a big milestone for an artist who’s been an all-around mannequin of self-sufficiency. For his fifth studio album, the Bones Of J.R. Jones’ Jonathon Linaberry cleared the inventive decks, hiring an out of doors producer for the primary time. Because it seems, the one he picked was an ideal match for his newest nostalgia-laced batch of tunes. A Grammy nominee for his work with Feist, Robbie Lackritz does moody and hypnotic higher than most, and he permeates Radio Waves with an uncanny sense of time and place: a definite ’80s/’90s vibe. For Linaberry, these had been the times when an album might change your life. And whereas Radio Waves could not change your life, it is going to transfer you in surprising methods.
Right here’s extra from Linaberry on the album’s 11 tracks.
—Hobart Rowland
1) “Automotive Crash”
“As we become older, we notice that life and love will at all times be superbly imperfect. It’s a catastrophe. It’s a automobile crash. However it’s one thing I wish to suppose we at all times yearn for. There’s some a part of us that wishes it to harm. If it hurts, you already know it means one thing—and that’s all we ever actually need.”
2) “Savages”
“‘Savages’ is about discovering your self out all evening within the July warmth below the town lights, at a home occasion or getting misplaced with your folks and being fully enveloped in that second. It’s surrendering to that feeling, letting your self really feel wrecked, gut-punched, impressed and bleary-eyed. It’s about eager to disappear proper then and there within the hopes that point stops.”
3) “Coronary heart Assault”
“This one at all times felt just like the loneliest observe on the album. For me, it’s about coping with the expectations of household, family members and simply life typically.”
4) “Shameless”
“I believe all of us battle with the ‘what might have been’ query. What boastful idiot can’t look again and surprise? I’m simply attempting to acknowledge that on this music.”
5) “Catching You”
“Right here I’m lacking days of staying out on wild nights … of not caring, of being a stranger in a room.”
6) “Ghost” (That includes Two Runner)
“Younger loves. Younger mates. Simply youngsters making foolish guarantees to one another.”
7) “Losing Some Time”
“It’s about fulfilling a job for somebody you like deeply, however you acknowledge that life is simply too sophisticated to name it what it really is.”
8) “Hills”
“I had a neighbor set hearth to an enormous brush pile in his yard. It burned for days. His spouse had simply died, and it felt like an effigy to me. I imagined him working by his loss and carrying on along with his farm work. This music is about dwelling in a city the place you see this hearth on the hill that burns and burns … and everybody imposes their very own that means on it.”
9) “Drive”
“I’ve spent so a few years of my life driving myself round, taking part in my songs. Numerous cities, numerous late nights, attempting to get house as quick as I can. Generally I do really feel like I lose time. It’s the tediousness and monotony of the touring life, doing the identical factor each evening. I suppose that is my modest try to precise my darker emotions on being a touring musician.”
10) “The Satan”
“It’s recognizing that perhaps the one you like is the worst factor for you as an individual, that perhaps they symbolize the weakest level in your character. However you already know you’re going to like them anyway.”
11) “Begin Once more”
“The repetitious arguments, the identical highs, the identical lows, the acknowledgment of adjustments wanted after which doing it over again. This music is in regards to the hope of beginning over—that perhaps tomorrow can be completely different if we simply put these emotions to mattress tonight.”
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