- 2023-01-26
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MUSIC
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Sad Boys Club Announces Debut Album “Lullabies From The Lightning Tree”, Shares New Song “To Heal Without a Scar (Is a Waste of a Good Wound)”
London-based alt-rock band Sad Boys Club, consisting of Jacob Wheldon (vocals), Pedro Caetano (bass), Chris Holmes (guitar) and Tom MacColl (drums), announced their debut album “Lullabies From The Lightning Tree” would be released on May 5, 2023 via Modern Sky.
From the album, the band released the first single called “To Heal Without a Scar (Is a Waste of a Good Wound)” on January 25, 2023.
The track was written by Jacob Wheldon, and Pedro Leite who also produced it.
The accompanying music video was directed by Becky Garner and Oska Zaky.
Jacob Wheldon said of the song, “Sometimes I can have a hard time acknowledging life as reality, maybe I just don't want to. It often results in bad consequences for myself and those around me which I then use songs to somehow justify - some might argue that makes me a toxic narcissist (/man), I'm not sure I'd disagree. I'm working on it. A lot of this album is about working on whatever 'it' is. Getting better? It fell out at the end of a particularly bad period of writer's block and unblocked a majority of the writing on the record so feels like the only place to begin.”- The debut album comprises 10-track, produced by Pedro Leite.
The album not only marks a journey of four friends, but a generational rallying cry for self acceptance and love for those lost in the quagmire of their mid-to late twenties.
As Milan Kundera writes in his 1984 classic “The Unbearable Lightness Of Being”: “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” Kundera's comical scepticism of life is an ever present theme for Sad Boys Club on their debut outing. -
Photo by Nicholas O'Donnell - source : Apple Music
