![]() Is that energy a reflection of how you’re all feeling being back together and making music as an original group again? STEREOGUM: I listened to “Love Lounge,” and I thought it was one of the most energetic Live songs I’ve ever heard. So, yeah we’re getting some miles in for sure. ![]() We had committed to that before the Counting Crows tour came up, so we had to jump over and do that. We’re in Austin, Texas today, we play here tomorrow night … We popped over to Holland for one festival show, at a festival called Bospop. We called up Kowalczyk to talk about what’s next for Live, the “tiny little Oprah moments” in reuniting with the band two years ago, and that time in the ’90s when Michael Stipe just called to say he loved “Lightning Crashes.” (Lead guitarist Chad Taylor has memorably referred to the band’s time with Shinn as something out of The Twilight Zone.)īut now the middle ground between light and shadow has cleared, and all Kowalczyk wants to do is move forward with his friends, each of whom he met when they were just middle school kids in York. But it’s not a time they look back on fondly. Of course, in Kowalczyk’s absence, Live did release a full-length without their longtime singer in 2014, The Turn, featuring replacement vocalist Chris Shinn. Not only are the foursome readying an EP release, but they’ve recently put out a vigorous new single, “Love Lounge” - the first music featuring Live’s original lineup since 2006’s Songs From Black Mountain LP. ![]() Instead, the singer, who is perhaps best known for gravelly rock-radio staples like “Lightning Crashes” and “I Alone,” is beyond psyched to be back - back on tour (in addition to the festival circuit, Live is hitting the road with Counting Crows) and back in the studio. It’s been nearly two years since the York, Pennsylvania native reunited with the band that made him a ’90s hard-rock icon, and if there are any lingering hard feelings around their years-long separation (he famously split from the group in 2009), you would never know it. Kowalczyk has plenty of reason to feel kinetic these days. In fact, Kowalczyk sounds downright refreshed. But the Live singer doesn’t sound tired at all. Immediately before that, it was back to the States after playing a festival in Europe. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.Įd Kowalczyk has just flown from Denver to Austin. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. Pale blue colored iris presents the circle ![]() Before the doctor can even close the doorįorces pullin' from the center of the Earth again
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