Your new favorite sad boy electro artist Lakelend releases a one take stripped back version of his debut single ‘Fall Down’. On the reimagining of the track Lakelend’s had this to say.

“The song is one that sits really close to home for me, about heartbreak and hanging up the gloves on first love. I really wanted to express that raw sincerity and journey, which I think is perfectly captured in the stripped version” Lakelend explains.

For those new to the Lakelend fan club ‘Fall Down’ was the debut single for the Melbourne artist. Formerly a member of Rock / heavy band Storm The Sky, his new project sees him flex his production and songwriting chops while still toeing the line of his emo roots.

ICYMI you can listen to the original below. He’s got plenty more songs in the works so keep him at the top of your ‘ones to watch’ lists.

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NOFX / FRANK TURNER

SPLIT COVERS ALBUM

‘WEST COAST VS. WESSEX’

OUT JULY 31, 2020

Today Frank Turner releases a new version of NOFX’s ‘Falling In Love’, the latest single to emerge from forthcoming split covers album ‘West Coast Vs. Wessex’. Due for release via Fat Mike’s own Fat Wreck Chords label on July 31, 2020, the project brings together for the first time ever the long-running Los Angeles punks and the London-based singer and ex-Million Dead frontman, for many years now both friends and fans of each other’s music.

Turner’s new interpretation of ‘Falling In Love’ takes the album closer from NOFX’s 1997 album So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes into stark, affecting territory with a near unrecognisable vocal. Speaking about the approach behind his version of the track, Turner notes; “When Mike asked me to do a covers split with NOFX, I was blown away, and immediately knew that one of the songs I’d do would be ‘Falling In Love’. I’ve long thought it was one of his best compositions, it’s a beautiful lyric and melody, and I wanted to come at the song in a way that would lay that bare and highlight the beauty of the writing. I think it came out pretty good.”

It’s not often the leader of one of your favourite bands ask you to do a split album, one where his band covers the songs you’ve written. It’s the enviable situation Frank found himself in last year, when Fat Mike approached him to propose just that. The fruits of this project, ‘West Coast Vs. Wessex’, captures NOFX filtering five songs from Turner’s sizeable solo back catalogue through their singular sensibility, with Turner reciprocating to record five of his personal favourites from NOFX’s 37-years-and-counting career. But these aren’t simply double-time versions of Turner’s folk-punk tunes or acoustic re-workings of NOFX’s iconic SoCal punk anthems – both took time to play with the possibilities each other’s music presented.

“I listened to all his records, and I picked the ones that I thought I could make more interesting,” notes Fat Mike. “What I did is change a lot of chords. Frank, he beats me in the singing department. So I can’t sing better than he can, but I can maybe throw in a melody here or there or chord that he hadn’t thought of.” Turner took a similar approach. “I didn’t want to just do straight covers of anything. I wanted to try and pick songs where I felt like me and my band could bring something different to the table,” he says. “But it did strike me that it would be cool to demonstrate to the casual NOFX fan, who doesn’t know who I am, that I am actually a fan. I didn’t just go to Spotify and pick the five most-listened-to songs.” For the record, only one of his choices appears on Spotify’s top five for NOFX: ‘Bob’, which Turner here transforms into a wistful country song.

“Everything he picked was from the ’90s, so I took that as it’s okay to mostly do his early stuff too,” says Fat Mike, who channeled ‘90s NOFX for their interpretations, transforming ‘Thatcher F*cked The Kids’ into a jaunty companion to ‘Philthy Phil Philanthropist’. Turner and his band, The Sleeping Souls, recorded their songs between their rehearsal space and during tour commitments, whilst NOFX recorded at Fat Mike’s Six Floggs studio, with production by the D-Composers (Fat Mike, Johnny Carey, BAZ Bastien, Yotam Ben Horin).

In ‘West Coast Vs. Wessex’, the Frank Turner-Fat Mike Mutual Admiration Society has produced 10 hooky re-imaginings of each others’ music – the novelty may pique listeners’ curiosity, but it’s the songs that will keep them coming back.

NOFX VS FRANK TURNER – WEST COAST VS WESSEX OUT FRIDAY JULY 31 West Coast Vs. Wessex track-listing 1.Substitute 2. Worse Things Happen At Sea 3. Thatcher Fucked The Kids 4. Ballad Of Me And My Friends 5. Glory Hallelujah 6. Scavenger Type 7. Bob 8. Eat The Meek 9. Perfect Government 10. Falling In Love

“songs meant to buoy and reassure” — American Songwriter

“Johnson has the uncanny ability to take hyper-specific life experiences and transform them into universally relatable songs rife with lessons learned and stories told.” — Atwood Magazine

Josiah Johnson – a former and founding member of the Billboard chart-topping band The Head and the Heart – is announcing his debut solo album today, titled Every Feeling On A Loop. It will be released via ANTI- Records on September 4.

On lead single  “Nobody Knows” Johnson sings for people to have courage in sharing and receiving the truths of their hearts. The messages, like the man himself, are a welcome breath of air.

Directed by Hannah Welever, watch the song’s new music video HERE.

“A lot of the growth documented on this album is about taking responsibility for how I’m showing up in the world, and that song was about taking responsibility for how I care for myself,” Johnson says. “Part of my experience with addiction was that I was having a hard time, but I wasn’t raising my hand to get the help I needed.”

Like many musicians before him, Johnson turned to drugs to cope with the burnout and anxiety that came with his early years in The Head and the Heart. Too many long nights and too few emotional tools – twin flames that burned at both ends. And Johnson collapsed into ash. In the midst of writing The Head and the Heart’s third album, Signs of Light, Johnson checked into a rehab facility. When he checked out, though, his work hadn’t properly been completed. He tried to get back into the studio with the band, but eventually was told, “We love you but we can’t have you here right now.”

With time, though, came clarity. Although the music came regularly, Johnson still allowed himself to fantasise about a life never returning to professional music. He still contemplates earning a degree in social work. Yet, the songs kept bubbling up. On Every Feeling on a Loop, lush musical arrangements and harmonies support Johnson’s baritone crooning. At times, the songs sound like prayers. At others, his exuberance feels like the euphoria he’d always sought, this time hard-earned and wiser. He says he feels like a new person making it, charting his journey out of the dark into the wide awake of the morning, using the magic that was his all along.

Growing up curious and bright in an insular, conservative community, Johnson says he learned early on to discern which parts of himself were welcome and which were not. Though he felt love in that community, it was a smaller love than what he needed. Now, though, after years of self-study and self-healing, bolstered both by music and the love from friends and family, Johnson is ready to pen the next chapter of his life.

“I’ve learned to love my process,” Johnson says. “I’ve learned to love when I’ve taken the long way and where I get to admit mistakes. Humility and uncertainty are welcome. Being seen for who I am and where I’m at is my priority. And I am exactly where I am supposed to be. The result of that new courage bears out in how I’m able to be a better friend to the people I love. That’s the gift.”

TRACKLIST:

1. False Alarms
2. Woman In A Man’s Life
3. Nobody Knows
4. I Wish I Had
5. Rise Up
6. I Had A Choice
7. Waiting On You
8. Hey Kid
9. Same Old Brick
10. Grandma
11. World’s Not Gonna End
12. Solve Problems