
On the appropriately named “Optimism,” Slocum sings, “Help Ultimately, BRACE FACES EVERYONE boldly declares that even though things might beīad, they’re not hopeless. Step-by-step climb we have to work to attain. Happiness and redemption aren’t as simple as a flip of the switch. But just as things didn’t break overnight, Heroin addiction, mental illness or suicide.
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Series full of seemingly imperceptible events that snowball into life-altering issues like To understand that life never goes off the rails all at once. Implores us to harbor less judgment and more empathy, to talk less and listen more. West Valley Recording - seeks to find balance between realism and optimism. Rather, the album - produced by McAulay at Howard Benson’s Same/Doom and gloom under different names.” These are the things that affect us all.īut for all its emotional heft, Slocum doesn’t see BRAVE FACES EVERYONE as a


Because, as he sings in “Beachfront Property,” “Every city’s the They’re all at once personal vignettes and universal truths of life in theĢ010s, the lines blurred between Slocum’s own experiences and those of his friendsĪnd acquaintances. Unfurling heartbreaking tales of addiction, depression, debt and death juxtaposedĪlongside looming societal bogeys like mass shootings, the opioid epidemic andĬlimate change. These are character stories set in small-town America and anxious urban jungles alike, Rigorous touring during the Schmaltz album cycle. Punk fervor, the songs on BRAVE FACES EVERYONE represent the situations SlocumĪnd his bandmates - guitarist Kyle McAulay, bassist Trevor Dietrich, drummer Rubenĭuarte and keyboardist Meredith Van Woert - experienced during 30-some weeks of Menzingers and Manchester Orchestra and filtered through the band’s sweat-soaked Steeped in the same detail-rich storytelling of Bruce Springsteen, The So instead, Slocum decided to look outward for Spanish Love Songs’s third album,īRAVE FACES EVERYONE, due out Februon the band’s new label, Pure (“I don’t want to be theīand where each album is me complaining about myself for 40 minutes,” he says.) It was a catharticĪlbum, one that admittedly took a lot of Slocum’s soul to create. World that seemed to be doing its best to keep knocking him down. Songs that found the singer amplifying his grief while kicking back at a Schmaltz was an album colored by guilt and self-doubt, an insular collection of soulsearching Spanish Love Songs certainly have been heard, from legions of underground audiencesĪt The Fest and South By Southwest to outlets like NPR, who hailed the group’s 2018Īlbum, Schmaltz, as a “wellspring of big ideas, bigger riffs and the biggest possibleįeelings about love, war, fear and existential crisis.” His band, but he could just as easily be talking about himself. The singer and guitarist of LA-based punk quintet SPANISH LOVE SONGS is referencing When you’re young, you just want to be heard,” opines Dylan Slocum. We are devastated and playing for you again soon cannot happen quickly enough.“ This tour has been something we have been looking forward to for some time. Some of our best tour memories are from touring Europe.

Unfortunately, they have not and we have to make this incredibly difficult decision.

We have left it until the last possible moment to make this decision, hoping the impacts to our health would ease. A few members of the band have recently been battling covid. „Unfortunately, we have to cancel this summer’s European tour. Mi | 19:00 UHR ABGESAGT: Spanish Love Songs TICKETS FB-EVENT
