Everybody is Coming Down

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Omaha, NEs The Good Life returns this summer with their rst album in eight years, Everybodys Coming Down. Call it a soundtrack to Mans 21st century existential angst, the album poses cosmic queries, contem -plates regrets, questions self-worth, and examines the possibility of living in the moment, when memories are all that we truly take with us. And in some ways, thats the sweet spot front man and lyricist Tim Kasher inhabits: trying to make sense of this world of ours, and how and why we navigate it the way we do. Everybodys Coming Down moves in a new direction musically and, in contrast to The Good Lifes earlier releases, is very much a rock record. It is also the rst that truly embodies the band as a whole, more so than any previous album. In blending elements of drummer Roger L.

Lewiss love of classic rock, multi-instrumen-talist Ryan Foxs chaotic approach to melody, Stefanie Drootin-Senseneys propulsive, tuneful bass parts and colorful vocal arrangements, and Kashers deft, complementary song writing, the band sparked a vibrant evolution in sound. The gentler, folk-driven pop/rock for which the band is beloved remains (sonic sister album bookends 7 In The Morning and Midnight Is Upon Us; The Troubadours Green Room), but it is now mixed amongst guitars lines that unspool in a blaze across songs that hit harder and more viscerally (Every -body, Holy Shit), as well as moments of distorted psychedelia and moody ambience (Flotsam Locked Into A Groove, Diving Bell, How Small We Are).

Kasher began writing songs for a new album in October 2013, and the quartet balancing their busy lives and multiple projects reconvened from July to December 2014 to nish writing what became Everybodys Coming Down. With the help of Ben Brodin in Omahas ARC Studios, The Good Life started recording in January of this year and nished the album in their respective homes. The band then turned to John Congle ton (St. Vincent, Baroness, Angel Olsen, Cloud Nothings) to mix the album at his Elmwood Recording in Dallas, TX, looking to his experienced hand and uninhibited style to maintain and further realize the albums untem pered, vital sound. And vital it is: Everybodys Coming Down might not crack the ever-elusive code to our universal wonderings, but itll make you think, illuminate a new or alternative perspective, perhaps salve a lonely ache of isolation. Because we are, ultimately, all in this together forever coming down