Blissful electronic pop with quick rhythms and meaningful lyrics aims to uplift, liberate, and heal. We make every effort to ship your order as soon as possible. But Aaron West, person and project, is not a single-serving experience. Price will include a new antistatic sleeve, Japanese outer sleeve & visual inspection. Customers Who Bought This Also Picked Up…. This is his favorite team, a team passed down from his dead father, which he outlines in the song "You Ain't No Saint. "
Dan Campbell has proven himself not only as a musician, but as a writer and performance artist that would make Gerard Way jealous. Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties - Routine Maintenance - LP. The horns and small vocal choirs burst through with clarity. There are dark highways, and lost family, and plumes of cigarette smoke.
— Shane Fairbrother, CEO, Medtainer. In 2019, the band released an album called Road Maintenance. Album Review: Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties – We Don't Have Each Other Music Blogs by 957thespin - November 20, 2020 December 1, 2020 0 When I first listened to this album I thought it had a very early 2000s alternative sound with its more harsh vibe and tone. Just last year, The Wonder Years celebrated their biggest record yet with the transformative "Sister Cities", garnering billboards high atop the Philly skyline and unprecedented high critical praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR Music, Billboard and more. It is much harder, instead, to write about how one becomes responsible for their own pain.
Find information on all of Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties's upcoming concerts, tour dates and ticket information for 2023-2024. Notify me when this item is released / available. Send a request to Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties to play in your city. All products will be shipped via UPS or FedEx Next Day Air. Same Side sounds like waking up from a dream. Hanif Abdurraqib is a writer from the east side of Columbus, Ohio. Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties is the brainchild of The Wonder Years frontman Dan Soupy Campbell. And I would like to close, once again, with generosity. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties is not due to play near your location currently - but they are scheduled to play 1 concert across 1 country in 2023-2024. But I'm really glad I signed up! Conditions: All items must be returned as new in their original packaging, including all accessories and cables. Even so, I can't wait to hear how it ends. But the best gift of the Aaron West project is imagining, for a brief run of songs, a person trying to retool their crumbling life with all they have at their disposal: time, space, regrets, and the ability to write.
The story follows a man named Aaron who, on the band's debut release, "We Don't. With I have been able to reach the managers of various celebrities and influencers that I wasn't able to reach before for product endorsements and placements. 8 God the Billboards. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties are a full-length album and an EP into the story, and the songs weave together, leaving room at the end of Bittersweet to journey back to a more healing space. It is why his approach to Aaron West is so meticulous, with each character — mothers, fathers, and ex-wives — having their own story to weave into the grander narrative of West. Out July 8 via Hopeless Records, Campbell's first solo effort takes on a more folksy soundscape compared to The Wonder Years' "realist pop-punk. " There are thousands of bands that tell stories on their records, but few that follow those stories through until we have something of substance. If he decides to return to this project, it'll be interesting to see where both his and Aaron's lives go from here. At first I was really skeptical about things, I didn't know if the site was trustworthy. Album returns: If you have received damaged, defective, or incorrectly shipped merchandise, please notify Customer Service within 30 days. For all this talk of emotional groundwork being laid, and Campbell thriving, again, off of his ability to unearth the narrative inside of the narrative, it must be said that the songs are also good. At the end of a song, the character can vanish, even if the character is yourself.
But seeing him live, I realized I was only seeing half the show. Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties is an event that should be seen if it's even remotely near you. The album consists of 9 original pieces and one cover song: Going to Georgia. For one person standing alone on stage, her show became louder inch by inch and she crooned into the melting mic, gaining at least one new rabid fan. And sometimes, one person decides to stop choosing. Cold Collective, a mashup of musicians from previously well-known bands such as Transit and Defeater, led the charge. Some are the expected slow and sad, like "Our Apartment, " the first track from the Aaron West debut, 2014's We Don't Have Each Other, the song that sets the table for the entire story, swelling with a dirge of horns while Aaron West describes finding out that his wife is leaving for good. Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties debuted with their album We Don't Have Each Other in 2014. Plastic Eternity by Mudhoney. Campbell's lyrics are the driving force of the record, married to a searing acoustic punk soundtrack on 'Runnin' Scared' (which features arguably the best chorus he's ever written), and ensuring that the gut-wrenching penultimate track 'You Ain't No Saint' is an album highlight. 2 Just Sign the Papers. Want to see Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties in concert? Each song garnered a louder round of applause until they made their exit, taking the noise with them up the dark spiral staircase behind the stage.
But with newer, and fresher eyes on the world. World Wide We by OY. Thank you for everything, Dan. To listen to these albums is to be a witness to a project that is just as much a literary endeavor as it is a musical one. — Matthew Ardill, Comedy Album Book Club Podcast. It's a complete commitment to the craft. It is that which strikes me as the most difficult thing: West pulling his funeral out of his dream-world and making it an inevitability. One might get the sense that Campbell, having built the protagonist of Aaron West, grew tired of West only being a vehicle for suffering. "You didn't come to the funeral, " he sings, after describing his death. Dan Campbell is my honest to God hero, and I'm very ready to have my heart broken (from the singles, I will be). Our pressing is blue and /300. And, even in the days or weeks or months after that moment, your own pain becomes your own responsibility. Standard 12" Jacket w/ Inner Sleeve + Download Card, Color: Translucent Orange. We will gladly replace the merchandise without additional charge, or provide you with a full refund.
It seemed clear that their debut album had been out for less than a month by the people singing along, but for a band taking the stage at 6:30 (I know, right? Try a different filter or a new search keyword. Campbell detailed a concept album called We Don't Have Each Other, which follows the story of a man named Aaron West who, as Campbell puts it, is having a bad year. Overnight Shipping: allow 1-2 business days for delivery. 4 Bury Me Anywhere Else.
7 Runnin Toward the Light. The fall into alcoholism seems to be the main crux of the narrative but in all this is story about a man losing hope and the struggles that come with that. 3 Bloodied Up in a Bar Fight. The Parish at House of Blues. One of our favourite albums of 2019! I really wanted to focus on Aaron growing as a person and understanding how to better cope with tragedy instead of just shutting down and being self-destructive and self-absorbed and self-obsessed. " I don't think this is the appropriate musical outing for crowdsurfing, " Campbell-as-West says.
There is a 15% restocking fee that will be calculated based on the price of the product once the item is refunded. It is a brutal and detailed account of West speaking directly to Dianne, the wife who left him. This man makes me cry with his wordsAsbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents. Info correct on: 24/4/2020. To build a world where they imagine themselves as victims, all of their pain capable of being traced back to someone else. To set up a return for refund please visit. To enjoy a single song is to immerse yourself in the story and experience, the way all good fiction works in chapters. The Subterranean is a small venue by Chicago standards; hidden under the incredibly noisy Blue Line 'L' Train and tucked in the side of a building at a six-point intersection. It won't be this bleak forever... Not always unfixable, but for a moment or a tapestry of moments that feel like a lifetime.
Vocalist Chris Loporto's voice ached with an edge not unlike Polar Bear Club's Jimmy Stadt. The album was inspired by three tragic events of death and divorce that Campbell had to go through the previous year. It was good to hear songs where someone was deep in the shit, with no plans of crawling out. It is equal parts a plea for sympathy, a plea to get her back, and a diary entry meant to be read by no one.