“FOREVER COMING DOWN” SONG PREMIERE VIA CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
WEST COAST TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
NEW ALBUM EVERYBODY’S COMING DOWN OUT 8/14/15 VIA SADDLE CREEK
The Good Life debuted “Forever Coming Down,” a new song off upcoming album Everybody’s Coming Down, this morning via Consequence Of Sound and the bright, freneric track can also now be streamed and shared via YouTube: https://youtu.be/JmdS_kkdCj0. The band’s first release in eight years, Everybody’s Coming Down will arrive in stores on August 14, 2015 via Saddle Creek and is available in multiple formats for pre-order via the label’s webstore: http://saddle-creek.com/store/687. The album can also be pre-ordered via iTunes, where additional album tracks “Everybody” and “The Troubadour’s Green Room” – which premiered on Pitchfork and Stereogum, respectively – come as instant grat downloads with purchase.
The Good Life – Tim Kasher, Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, Ryan Fox, and Roger L. Lewis – have also announced additional tour dates across western North America this November. The dates begin on November 6th in Fort Collins, CO and continue through November 27th in Kansas City, MO, and include a November 18th show in Los Angeles, CA. A current itinerary is below.
Everybody’s Coming Down marks a vibrant sonic evolution for The Good Life. The album fully expresses the band perhaps more so than any previous release, combining and reflecting each member’s nature and strengths: drummer Lewis’s love of classic rock, multi-instrumentalist Fox’s chaotic approach to melody, Drootin-Senseney’s propulsive yet tuneful bass parts, and Kasher’s deft, complementary song writing. Viscerally hitting songs like rollercoasting anthem “Everybody” and the boisterous “Holy Shit” sit alongside psychedelic-tinged rock like “Flotsam Locked Into A Groove” and the ambient, atmospheric “Diving Bell,” as well as The Good Life’s now-known lyrical, folk-indebted pop (“The Troubadour’s Green Room,” “Midnight Is Upon Us”). Lyrically, Everybody’s Coming Downis an engrossing, contemplative mix that touches on existential and cosmic queries, ruminations on regrets and self-worth, and the power of memory versus experience.
The Good Life’s last album, Help Wanted Nights, was released in 2007 and earned the band press attention from outlets including Alternative Press, The AV Club, Big Takeover, CMJ, Paste, Pitchfork, and Under The Radar, among others. After touring in support of the record, and playing a handful of June 2010 shows, the band dispersed to focus on other projects – Cursive and solo albums for Kasher, Big Harp for Drootin-Senseney, the bands Conduits and Oquoa for Lewis, and solo material and a tape label, Majestic Litter, for Fox – but always planned to regroup for another album. Everybody’s Coming Down was written mainly in late 2014, and The Good Life played a few shows that August, October, and December to road test some of the new songs. Recording began in January 2015 at Omaha’s ARC studios and finished in the quartet’s respective homes, which are scattered across the US: Chicago, IL (Kasher), Omaha, NE (Lewis), Los Angeles, CA (Drootin-Senseney), and Portland, OR (Fox). The band then traveled to Dallas, TX to mix with John Congleton (St. Vincent, Baroness, Angel Olsen, Cloud Nothings) at his Elmwood Recording.
The Good Life tour dates:
AUG. 15 OMAHA, NE MAHA MUSIC FESTIVAL
AUG. 17 SIOUX FALLS, SD ICON*
AUG. 18 ST. PAUL, MN TURF CLUB*
AUG. 19 CHICAGO, IL LINCOLN HALL*
AUG. 20 FERNDALE, MI LOVING TOUCH*
AUG. 21 CLEVELAND, OH GROG SHOP*
AUG. 22 WASHINGTON, DC ROCK & ROLL HOTEL*
AUG. 23 PHILADELPHIA, PA UNION TRANSFER*
AUG. 25 HAMDEN, CT THE BALLROOM @ THE OUTER SPACE*
AUG. 26 BOSTON, MA THE SINCLAIR*
AUG. 27 NEW YORK, NY BOWERY BALLROOM*
AUG. 28 RICHMOND, VA STRANGE MATTER*
AUG. 29 CARRBORO, NC CAT’S CRADLE – BACK ROOM*
AUG. 30 ATLANTA, GA THE EARL*
SEPT. 1 ORLANDO, FL THE SOCIAL*
SEPT. 2 TALLAHASSEE, FL CLUB DOWNUNDER*
SEPT. 3 BIRMINGHAM, AL SATURN*
SEPT. 4 NASHVILLE, TN HIGH WATT*
SEPT. 5 ST. LOUIS, MO OFF BROADWAY*
SEPT. 6 IOWA CITY, IA GABES*
NOV. 6 FORT COLLINS, CO LYRIC CINEMA CAFÉ*
NOV. 7 DENVER, CO LARIMER LOUNGE*
NOV. 9 SALT LAKE CITY, UT URBAN LOUNGE*
NOV. 10 BOISE, ID NEUROLUX*
NOV. 12 PORTLAND, OR DOUG FIR LOUNGE*
NOV. 13 SEATTLE, WA THE CROCODILE*
NOV. 14 VANCOUVER, BC FORTUNE SOUND CLUB*
NOV. 15 BELLINGHAM, WA THE SHAKEDOWN*
NOV. 17 SAN FRANCISCO, CA GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL*
NOV. 18 LOS ANGELES, CA TROUBADOUR*
NOV. 19 SANTA ANA, CA CONSTELLATION ROOM*
NOV. 20 SAN DIEGO, CA THE CASBAH*
NOV. 21 PHOENIX, AZ VALLEY BAR*
NOV. 22 ALBUQUERQUE, NM SISTER*
NOV. 24 AUSTIN, TX THE MOHAWK*
NOV. 25 DALLAS, TX CLUB DADA*
NOV. 27 KANSAS CITY, MO THE RIOT ROOM*
*Big Harp supports
