Super Reverb is streaming everywhere today.
After 4 years, it's finally here.
Hello everyone,
Today is the day.
Super Reverb, the album I wrote in 2018, recorded in 2019, and had mixed and mastered in 2020 is finally here.
You can listen/buy it on Bandcamp here
I’m really glad that the songs now all get to live lives of their own. If you know me, you may have already heard them when I sent you the Dropbox link at some point over the past couple years. Good news is you can just stream them now.
I don’t really have much to say about this record because I think a lot of it speaks for itself. It’s a kind of auto-fiction that follows the general narrative of Heavy. Both records are very much about grief, but while Heavy was meant to encapsulate the anger that came with it, Super Reverb is meant to be about acceptance. It’s not the initial emotional hit, but the memory that echoes within. I would have called it “Light” but that would have been too on-the-nose. My first guitar amp was my Dad’s 1972 Fender Super Reverb, and while we used a Twin Reverb on the record, I just preferred the name.
Interesting moment happened while recording: When initially tracking drums (which were all written and performed in one day), Marlon asked how I liked the “heartbeat” style kick pattern in the intro of the record that cuts out about halfway through. I started laughing because while he wasn’t aware of this, that moment in the song was the moment my Dad died. It was an interesting little moment of synchronicity.
What I really wanted to express on in the record is the sense of aimlessness that comes from grief: the feeling of being lost that accompanies that of loss itself. One of the mistakes we can make in these times is thinking how we’ll find that sense of direction through another person. This isn’t really the best course of action since it’s just a way of deferring your own desires and process on to someone else. I tried doing that for a bit, and I think I’m still doing it in some ways, but I’m ok with that. These things take time.
Please enjoy the songs. Listen to them. Share them. Learn them. Whatever you like. They’re all yours now.
Piece and Love,
Graham
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