New (Important) Music –

September 13, 2019 – “You know they talk about addiction. It’s a progressive disease. It’s not something where you just wake up and you’re homeless and you’re begging for crack or heroin,” Fraites says. 

On the latest album, the band tracks how this disease progresses through three generations. The first includes an alcoholic woman named Gloria Sparks. In the song “Gloria,” Schultz imagines how Gloria’s children see her and how she sees herself. “Gloria being that important and also being that dysfunctional is where the album kind of begins,” Schultz explains. 

The listener can hear these differing perspectives in the music. Schultz says that “Gloria” is meant to represent a conversation between the addict and her daughter.

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