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Nomadic indie rock project Paper Anthem releases second single ‘21st Season,’ from upcoming sophomore album entitled To All the Sailors We’ve Lost (out 13 September on Sophrosyne Sounds). Following the success of the LP’s single ‘Aquatic,’ a debut which was drowning in reverberated electric guitars and dark piano, singer-songwriter Joseph Hitchcock introduces a more eloquent flavor in ‘21st Season’ with warm acoustic guitars and an urgent drum pattern blanketed with stirring, dramatically delivered lyrics.
“[It’s] sort of an adaptation of an unproduced script I wrote,” Hitchcock explains. “It’s about a man who begins to involuntarily time travel after a storm in the Bermuda Triangle. He pops in and out of random time periods. In one of them, he thinks it’s over and has time to start a family and have children, and then he’s taken away from them again... He’s just trying to find a way back to his son.”
Recorded along with ‘Aquatic’ at Donut Time Audio—the home studio of Bay Area art rockers Everyone Is Dirty, who lend their producer/guitarist Christopher Daddio’s many talents to the impassioned track—and mixed by Kristofer Harris (Belle and Sebastian, Clock Opera), ‘21st Season’ builds to a thrilling conclusion with a bridge—partially improvised live in the studio during a crucial take, says Hitchcock—and a final chorus, hopefully reuniting the narrator with his long-lost family before it’s too late.
lyrics
Seventeen seasons, seventeen seasons
I'm through with this
Eighteen seasons, nineteen seasons
I'll cling to this
Twentieth season, twentieth season
I've grown in tens
Twentieth season, twentieth season
This will be the end
I'm on a horse with a sword in hand
I'm riding to my final stand
If ever you are nearby
I'll find you in the end
In time
Twenty-first season, twenty-first season
We're on the mend
Twenty-first season, twenty-first season
Counting the dead
I'm on a horse with a sword in hand
I'm riding to my final stand
If ever you are nearby
I'll find you in the end
In time
credits
from To All the Sailors We've Lost,
track released March 29, 2019
Joseph Hitchcock - vocals, backing vocals, piano, organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Christopher Daddio - bass, organ, electric guitar, percussion
Tony Sales - drums
Written by Joseph Hitchcock.
Produced by Christopher Daddio.
Recorded by Christopher Daddio at Donut Time Audio in Oakland, CA. Additional piano recorded by Chris Moore at East Hall Recording in Fayetteville, AR.
Mixed by Kristofer Harris at Squarehead Studio in Kent, England. Mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Mastering in London, England.
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