Sarah and the Sundays dive deep into the emotional core of their achingly intimate, vulnerably triumphant third album ‘Like a Rattling Canine’ – a uncooked and resonant indie rock reckoning of rising pains, heartbreak, identification, and self-discovery, and the delicate threads that tie us to ourselves and one another.
Stream: “The Cue” – Sarah and the Sundays
This time round, we actually needed the songs to remain true to their core feelings and values, letting the music convey the message simply as loudly because the lyrics.
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Life doesn’t include a guide, however Like a Rattling Canine positive appears like one band’s try to make sense of the chaos.
Sarah and the Sundays’ third studio album is a visceral outpouring of emotion and self-exploration – a set of uncooked reflections and hard-earned realizations delivered with equal elements grit and style. Written throughout a wintry retreat in rural Connecticut and recorded at residence in Austin, Texas, Like a Rattling Canine captures a band absolutely of their aspect, shedding previous expectations and embracing their most susceptible, unfiltered selves. The result’s a cathartic, emotionally resonant indie rock file that speaks to confusion, loss, heartbreak, disillusionment, and the quiet triumph of persistence.
I assume I didn’t discover the shift
I wouldn’t have been so good
Final noticed you at Barton
All the things felt alright
As a lot as I hate your guts
I consider you on a regular basis
You bought beneath my pores and skin
I allow you to
How asinine
When will I study?
It’s all the time the identical
It’s not enjoyable anymore
I don’t like this type of ache
– “The Cue,” Sarah and the Sundays
Launched February 7th through Westward Recordings/AWAL, Like a Rattling Canine is the sound of Sarah and the Sundays coming into their very own. From the opening pangs of “The Cue” to the haunting, cinematic shut of “Ignore Me,” the five-piece of Liam Yorgensen [lead vocals, guitar], Brendan Whyburn [vocals, guitar], Quinn Lane [drums], Miles Reynolds [keyboard, guitar], and Declan Chill [bass] channel rising pains and interior turmoil into poignant, passionate powerhouse performances. They lean into discomfort and doubt, creating area for listeners to really feel much less alone in their very own experiences. There’s no pretense or polish right here – simply fantastically messy humanity, delivered with searing honesty and unapologetic coronary heart.
Like a Rattling Canine follows 2021’s sophomore LP The Dwelling Finish, which Atwood Journal beforehand praised as “a radiant and defining musical journey brimming with vitality, ardour, private development, and indie attraction.” That album discovered Sarah and the Sundays balancing existential nervousness with buoyant, vivid indie rock – a balancing act between gentle and darkish that solidified their voice and imaginative and prescient (and a knack for pairing emotionally weighted lyricism with fascinating, cathartic melodies). If The Dwelling Finish was a snapshot of youth in transition, then Like a Rattling Canine is a doc of what comes after – the reckoning, the reflection, and the hard-earned self-awareness that comes with time, distance, and expertise.
“Like A Rattling Canine took form over the course of a yr or so,” frontman Liam Yorgensen tells Atwood Journal. “With the recording course of for our final LP The Dwelling Finish being a condensed fourteen days, we needed to take a slower, extra methodical strategy to this file. All through the entire course of we tried to present the mission the time and area it wanted to naturally take form. From writing the file over three months in rural, wintery Connecticut, to monitoring the album at residence in Austin, we actually needed to create this album in our personal time and on our personal phrases. All of that culminated in a few of our most trustworthy, genuine work thus far.”
Sharing such an intimate area collectively over these lengthy, darkish, and chilly months allowed the band to attach on new, deeper ranges, leading to a few of their most susceptible and emotionally pushed songwriting thus far. Thematically, Like a Rattling Canine is a file of uncooked, unvarnished humanity and unfiltered feeling.
“We went into this file with out harboring a lot of a holistic view of the ultimate product,” Yorgensen explains. “If something, we actually needed the songs to talk for themselves. Up to now, we’ve made lots of unhappy songs sound joyful and vice versa. This time round, we actually needed the songs to remain true to their core feelings and values, letting the music convey the message simply as loudly because the lyrics. It was a really cathartic course of to dive headfirst into varied feelings, as a substitute of making an attempt to subvert the listener in a technique or one other.”
I’m no Casanova
I don’t know what they informed ya
However I’m right here
I’m paying hire
Typically I nonetheless play fake
And in my head
I’m completely the particular person I ought to be
However outdoors
I’m a tragedy
I’m not confused
I simply don’t know what to do
And god it’s priceless
I’m leaving lifeless
I really feel like I’m delusional
And in the identical breath
I take advantage of to admit, I,
I inform a lie like common
However don’t get me improper
It’s all that I need
I’m simply afraid that
I’m not what you thought and I
Received’t ever be
– “Casanova,” Sarah and the Sundays
For Yorgensen and his bandmates, this file is definitely essentially the most mature launch of their ten-year profession.
“I believe this album provides the listeners a glimpse into the place we’re all at in our lives proper now,” he says. “From our ever-changing musical tastes, to rising into maturity within the trendy age, this file appears like essentially the most trustworthy factor we’ve made as a band thus far. Whereas our earlier albums had been extra deliberately impressed sonically, Like A Rattling Canine is actually simply us making songs we would have liked to make. The album marks us as a band stepping out on our personal and abandoning lots of the comparability, judgement, and expectation that’s formed earlier releases.”
Simply calm down, clench your fist
Simply neglect it, reminisce
Simply double down, reassess
Do your worst, strive your greatest
It’s not that onerous, simply surrender
You might be God, you’re not sufficient
I like you so, I’d take your life
It’s best to go, keep the night time
I don’t get why
I don’t get something in any respect
You should be drained
Of me shaking like a canine
And I believe twice about
Most all the things
However nonetheless I can’t recall
I don’t get why
I don’t get something in any respect
– “You Should Be Drained,” Sarah and the Sundays
The band candidly describe Like a Rattling Canine as melancholic, trustworthy, and uncooked. The album’s title was really the unique working title of observe six, “You Should Be Drained” (whose refrain consists of the lyric, “You should be uninterested in me shaking like a canine”), and whereas the music finally received a brand new title, that phrase caught round.
“I believe all of us actually favored the way it felt, and as we mulled over the file and its themes, the title began to make increasingly more sense for the album as a complete,” Yorgensen displays. “It denotes a sure animalistic, instinctual emotion that’s littered throughout the file. Lyrically, instrumentally, thematically, and tonally, ‘Like a Rattling Canine’ simply felt proper.”
These visceral feelings are palpable from the second the album takes off with “The Cue,” an electrical introduction that rises from a comfortable begin to a stirring, spirited roar because the narrator realizes a beloved one has moved on with out providing closure. “I believe I deserved a kinder goodbye, guess I’m unworthy not less than in your eyes,” Yorgensen sings, his voice scorching on the mic as he effortlessly embodies a painful second of fracture, frustration, remorse, and regret. “I want I by no means took the bait, want I by no means received excessive; ought to’ve washed you away whereas I nonetheless had time. I imply take a look at me now, I want I may cry. Get all of it out, go on and discover the subsequent man, I ought to’ve washed you away…” Seldom does select to embrace the “higher to have by no means beloved in any respect” maxim (most people go for “higher to have beloved and misplaced,” in my expertise), but within the warmth of heartbreak, all we would like is that reversal – of fortune and misfortune alike.
So begins an album that leans into life’s greatest feelings with an unapologetic perspective and daring, brash sounds. Like a tinderbox, Like a Rattling Canine typically feels prefer it’s one lit match (or painful reminiscence) away from going up in flames, which it does with fiery finesse (and fantastically so!) on a number of events. Songs like “Afterlife,” “Pipe Down,” “You Should Be Drained” (a private favourite), “Crystal Ball,” and “Coverage” stand out for his or her marriage of unfiltered self-expression with seductive, soul-stirring musicality. Reality be informed, each considered one of these twelve songs is price its weight in gold: Finest skilled in full, Like a Rattling Canine unravels like a confessional journal or a coming-of-age movie, every observe including a brand new layer of depth, emotion, and that means to a file that calls for, and deserves, to be felt from begin to end.
Sarah and the Sundays’ band members have loads of private highlights as effectively. “All of us love ‘The Cue’! It was a music that type of went over our heads after we first demoed it, however as soon as we revised it after which lastly tracked it, it shortly emerged as considered one of our favorites,” Yorgensen smiles. “One other is ‘Afterlife.’ It is a deeply private one and was one of the crucial cathartic songs we’ve ever made as a bunch. ‘You Should Be Drained’ can be considered one of our favorites. The instrumental on this one is simply so mesmerizing whereas the vocals really feel hauntingly intimate.”
Additional lyrical highlights embody the refrain of “Afterlife” – “If grief is part of love, then I’ll love no extra, I’ve had sufficient” – and the refrain of “Candy Tooth,” which Yorgensen affectionally calls a ‘quite unhappy, however good one’: “You both get previous or die younger, and in some way they each really feel like shedding.”
Talking in previous tense
Splitting up ashes
Into the brand new yr
What can I do right here?
The place was my warning?
Early that morning
I want I had seen her
I want I could possibly be her
If grief is part of love
Then I’ll love no extra
I’ve had sufficient
I cannot watch my mom cry
I cannot discover the after life
I’m not as positive as I was
That I’m not afraid
Of the top of me
I’ll stay and die this approach
– “Afterlife,” Sarah and the Sundays
In the end, Like a Rattling Canine is as a lot a time capsule as it’s a lifeline – a file born of introspection, honesty, and the type of emotional transparency that solely comes from deep belief and collaboration.
“We hope listeners can discover some solace in these songs,” Yorgensen shares. “Making this file was a deeply emotional course of, and we hope that a few of that shines by way of the music. Life could be extremely making an attempt at occasions, and hopefully this file affords some comfort to listeners going by way of the numerous trials life has to supply.”
“Now that the file is out, we primarily simply really feel lots of aid. Making and placing out this file has been such a turbulent course of. It’s actually gratifying to have this physique of labor as a time capsule of a yr or so of our lives.”
Sarah and the Sundays have by no means sounded extra positive of themselves, even within the throes of uncertainty – and in embracing life’s messiness, they’ve made one thing really unforgettable.
Expertise the complete file through our beneath stream, and peek inside Sarah and the Sundays’ Like a Rattling Canine with Atwood Journal because the band take us track-by-track by way of the music and lyrics of their third studio album!
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Crystal ball
Present me that there’s
One thing else coming
Doesn’t should be higher
It simply must be completely different
Know all of it
You’ve received one thing else coming
You simply should be higher
You simply should be completely different
Get me out of this physique bag
Take me again to the life I had
Or present me one thing I may by no means think about
Simply get me out of this f*ing visitors
I don’t wanna be awake for much longer tonight
I don’t wanna be problematic
I don’t actually wish to be in love anymore
However I don’t know if I can stay with out it
– “Crystal Ball,” Sarah and the Sundays
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The Cue
“The Cue” chronicles the emotional journey of realizing somebody has left you behind with out closure. Not fairly indignant, however considerably resentful, it contemplates the remorse one has when issues flip bitter and you want you by no means began within the first place.
Afterlife
“Afterlife” is a music about struggling to search out items of your family members on the earth after they’ve handed away. It’s dramatic, it’s sorrowful, and it explores the concept of considering your individual mortality after experiencing loss for the primary time.
Casanova
“Casanova” is a music about imposter syndrome, feeling such as you in some way discovered your self ready you don’t deserve, and also you’ll quickly be came upon. It’s self-reflective however nonetheless light-hearted.
Pipe Down
“Pipe Down” touches on the expertise of shedding the connection you as soon as had with mates as you develop in several instructions. It weighs the strain between admitting fault and nonetheless pleading for communication to deal with interpersonal points which can be obvious however going unstated.
Candy Tooth
“Candy Tooth” is a mirrored image on the elements of your former self that stay inside you, and the distinction between your naivety and your newfound reflection on mortality. The music captures the confusion related to loss and the way projecting that have onto your individual life can go away you questioning what lies forward.
You Should Be Drained
“You Should Be Drained” reveals the ebb and circulation of the human expertise because it occurs in each day life. As one ages into maturity, it may be completely complicated to make sense of the world round you, and “You Should Be Drained” follows this expertise all the way down to the narrator evaluating themselves to a cowering canine.
Crystal Ball
“Crystal Ball” is a plea to the mystic to deliver change. It finds the narrator at their wits finish, feeling caught and hopeless, prepared to take something aside from what they’ve. It’s a uncooked, trustworthy description of the depths of despair and woe.
Wanting Useless on the Operate
“Wanting Useless At The Operate” is a cheeky dig at one’s self for promising to raised their habits and nonetheless falling into the identical unhealthy routine come sport time. The refrain lyric “I assume I’m beneath my spell” finds the narrator theorizing there should be mystic intervention contemplating how troublesome they’re discovering easy life-style adjustments.
Pores and skin and Bone
“Pores and skin and Bone” is a music about realizing you’re not in the suitable place whereas concurrently struggling to establish the higher course. It describes the depth of feeling such as you’re falling behind, bottling up resentment in the direction of your individual confusion and circumstance, realizing a greater actuality exists someplace.
Coverage
“Coverage” captures the frustration of feeling powerless within the face of systemic points and distant management. Impressed by the political local weather and the disenfranchisement felt by many younger folks, it’s a heartfelt critique of these entrusted with our greatest pursuits but stay out of attain. Each pressing and introspective, the music resonates with anybody questioning the methods meant to guard their future.
Stop
“Stop” is a private reflection on efforts whose rewards don’t fulfill the vitality put ahead. It touches on the issue in placing your self on the market and never discovering fairly what you anticipated when you do. Moreover, the music dives into the self doubt induced by such experiences and the way it can shortly discourage you from making any additional makes an attempt.
Ignore Me
“Ignore Me” is a cinematic and dramatic telling of the lack of management and the way that have can internally invalidate one’s emotions and perspective. It finds one questioning their sanity after shedding management and relinquishing themselves to one thing better after they understand they’ll’t keep themselves the best way they need to.
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