Like, with The Party and Bearer of Bad News, I was getting into writing on piano a lot more.
This one was similar to Darker Days, and I totally want to leave that one behind. Have your previous albums influenced the new avenues of sounds you went for with the new album ?Īndy Shauf: I guess in a way. Sonically, and I could be totally off base here, but I felt there was something shared with The Neon Skyline and Darker Days. Get all the info in our exclusive interview! Andy Shauf © Colin Medley Though he finds no intrigue in his own life, plenty of it surrounds his practices, and Atwood Magazine recently sat down with the Saskatchewan-born artist to discuss the process behind The Neon Skyline (releasing January 24, 2020), what his time in Toronto looked like, and just how good he was at BMXing. It’s already looking to be one of 2020’s most admired albums.Īndy Shauf excels at his craft, and his writing is quite simply nonpareil, no other artist possessing the spark he carries. The Neon Skyline takes a different approach, one that grabs the good with the bad and makes what could be awkward situations into ones where one can laugh at or even cherish the moments that have already passed. Suffice to say, it was not the happiest of times for most, leading to a somber, although gorgeous, album. The Party was an exploration of a single night at one single party that saw rejections, merriment, and even death. After the signing to the Anti- record label, Shauf then released The Party, catapulting him to a new spotlight that lauded his lyrical wit and creative storytelling habits, and rightfully so. The narrative-driven sound behind Shauf’s music began to take shape with 2012’s The Bearer of Bad News, an album whose lilting tones and somber tales of a quaint small town saw a new side to Shauf, one that differentiated itself in both substance and presentation than with his previous album Darker Days. This is made apparent with The Neon Skyline. Personal storytelling is not his preference, so, instead, he focuses on the narratives that happen around him, building worlds that are fleshed out and fully realized in only a matter of minutes.
He has often stated that his own life seldom has any intrigue, leading to quiet moments in the conversations he has, but despite that, he carries a charm that channels into his music in a seamless fashion.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Andy Shauf is a bit of a recluse. Listen to both new songs above and check out Shauf’s upcoming tour dates below.Ġ2/17 - Sheffield, MA Race Brook Lodge *Ġ2/20 - Charlottesville, VA The Southern Music Hall *Ġ3/05 - Oklahoma City, OK Tower Theatre *Ġ3/09 - Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern *Ġ3/11 - Los Angeles, CA Walt Disney Concert Hall ^Ġ3/25 - St.Late nights, awkward encounters, and BMXing: A lot goes into the album-making journey, and Atwood Magazine chatted with Andy Shauf on the process for ‘The Neon Skyline’ and his methodology behind it all. Where after you complete a long and disciplined life, you find yourself holding a bite-sized chocolate bar stapled to an invitation to a Hallowe’en pool party with Satan himself.” So with the lyrics of this song, I was trying to take this cartoon-like simplification of life (and death) and pair it with a cartoon-like version of this Christian hell. A sort of cartoon-like simplification of ancient texts. The Christianity that I was brought up in said that believers went to heaven and non-believers went to hell.
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After a few years of this, my parents realized it was a bit silly to deny us our free candy and let us resume. The church that I grew up in was saying that Hallowe’en was ‘The Devil’s Day’ and that it had its roots in satanic rituals. “When I was young, there were a few years where I wasn’t allowed to celebrate Hallowe’en.
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