First World Tragedy

1. We Begged 2 Explode 2. Pash Rash 3. Festival Song 4. Staring Out The Window At Your Old Apartment 5. Wave Goodnight To Me 6. To Be A Ghost… 7. Pietro, 60 Years Old 8. I Did Something Weird Last Night 9. Blast Damage Days 10. Bang On The Door 11. Rainbow 12. Planet Luxury 13. HELLLLHOOOOLE 14. June 21st 15. The Fuzz 16. …While You’re Alive 17. Perfect Sound Whatever

Hey there! Today is exciting. Earlier this year me, John, Mike and Kevin finished up a record called WORRY. and we’re finally good to start talking about it and stuff! You can pre-order it from SideOneDummy here: http://bit.ly/WORRYWORRY Thanks!

Jack Shirley recorded this record in April and May of 2016, mostly at a beautiful house in the mountains of Stinson Beach, California. We’d all wake up in the morning, cook breakfast, pick up our instruments and smash everything out in a room together with no headphones on, get frustrated with ourselves, smash it out again, finish up, cook some dinner, drink some wine, talk shit and go to bed. I’d never made a record like this, and upon walking into the house I felt like we were doing some real fancy rock band shit. Really we were just making a mess like always. Then we finished it all up at Atomic Garden recording studio.

<a href=“http://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/album/worry”>WORRY. by Jeff Rosenstock</a>

Without going too crazy explaining everything, I went into this record trying to write something about love, something less negative than usual ha. I got married while writing this record, so it seemed natural. However, it was admittedly difficult. All day every day I felt overwhelmed by tragedy (small and large) around me. Love can be something you share with a life partner, love can be something you feel for your family, your friends, your fellow human being, animals, nature, and on and on. A lot of this record is based around the question of whether or not any kind of love can survive in an environment of competition, greed and hatred - and the resulting exhaustion and complacency.

Which is heavy shit. But I know we’re all feeling it a little bit. I’ll sound like a cliché, fuck it. Music has always gotten me everything bad, so that’s the music I wanna make. So even though it might be typical Jeff Rosenstock bullshit, with this record I was hoping to take that panic, anxiety and dread alongside all the love I truly feel in my heart for the people I care about and shake it all out real loud.

Thank you John DeDomenici, Kevin Higuchi and Mike Huguenor for making music with me. Thanks Jack Shirley for recording it, and James Brown for filming stuff. Thanks Baby Pony Food for the sick video below. Thanks to the 100 people who showed up to sing gang vocals on this record. Thanks Side One Dummy for being very patient with my occasionally inconvenient punk heart.

To get the rest of this unending thank you list, please pre-order the record here haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: http://bit.ly/WORRYWORRY but honestly I don’t love the vibe of trying to craft social media messages to sell shit, editing to hopefully skirt algorithms that are designed to prevent you from selling shit without spending money on ads or whatever… so thank you for making it through the long-form announcement of the record WORRY. Hope to see y’all out there.