Painkillers Brian Fallon

• 1 A Wonderful Life 03:11
• 2 Painkillers 03:07
• 3 Among Other Foolish Things 03:00
• 4 Smoke 03:44
• 5 Steve McQueen 03:22
• 6 Nobody Wins 02:48
• 7 Rosemary 03:40
• 8 Red Lights 03:37
• 9 Long Drives 03:35
• 10 Honey Magnolia 03:29
• 11 Mojo Hand 03:30
• 12 Open All Night 03:37
• Total Runtime 40:40

Info for Painkillers

Randvoll mit überdimensionalen Hooks und noch größeren Refrains, erscheint in diesem Jahr mit „Painkillers“ das erste Soloalbum von Brian Fallon – dem Sänger und Gitarristen von The Gaslight Anthem, der in den letzten Jahren neben den massiven Erfolgen mit seiner Band auch mit Projekten wie The Horrible Crowes und Molly & The Zombies für Furore gesorgt hat.

"Painkillers": Emotionaler Tiefgang und packendes Storytelling von Brian Fallon: Auf „Painkillers“ vereint der Sänger und Songwriter Country sowie Folk mit der Energie von Hardcore und Punk. Aufgenommen hat Brain Fallon sein neues Album in Nashville mit Butch Walker, der u.a. schon für The All-American Rejects, Frank Turner oder Pete Yorn produziert hat. Außerdem standen ihm in den Taxidermy Studios die Bassistin Catherine Popper und Schlagzeuger Mark Stepro zur Seite. „Das Schreiben und die Aufnahmen zu diesem Album waren mit das Beste, was ich je erlebt habe. Alles an diesem Album fühlt sich zu 100% richtig an“, sagt Brian Fallon über sein Solo-Debüt.

Bereits mit seiner Band The Gaslight Anthem feierte Brian Fallon in den letzten Jahren weltweit große Erfolge und schaffte 2010 mit dem Album „American Slang“ den internationalen Durchbruch. Seitdem gehören die Indie-Rocker zu einer festen Größe im Musikgeschäft und tourten in den letzten Jahren u.a. an der Seite von Bruce Springsteen sowie Rise Against.

Ihre letzten beiden Alben „Handwritten“ und „Get Hurt“ knüpften an die Erfolge an und eroberten hierzulande die Top-3 der Albumcharts. Jetzt setzt Brian Fallon seine musikalische Reise mit seinem Solo-Debüt „Painkillers“ fort.

Brian Fallon
A singer and songwriter whose music fuses the urgency of punk rock with the passion and songcraft of heartland rock, Brian Fallon rose to fame as the leader of the band the Gaslight Anthem before moving on to a solo career. Brian Fallon was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on January 28, 1980. Fallon's mother had been a professional musician, performing with a folk group, but Brian's early musical efforts were as strongly informed by punk and alternative rock. Under the name No Release, Fallon recorded his first album in 1997, a 16-song cassette-only released titled The Coffeehouse Sessions. Not long after, Fallon joined a ska-punk band called Surrogate McKenzie, who dropped four self-released cassettes between 1998 and 2000. In 2001, Fallon launched a new band, the short-lived Amping Copper, who released a self-titled six-song EP before fading out. After producing a solo EP, Cincinnati Rail Tie, in 2004, Fallon founded a new group, This Charming Man, with Fallon on vocals and guitar along with Michael Volpe (lead guitar), Chris Clementi (bass), and Mike Leboeuf (drums). This lineup cut an EP, Every Little Secret, that was released in 2005, but the band soon began to splinter, and Clementi and Leboeuf left the group late that year, with bassist Alex Levine and drummer Benny Horowitz taking their places. When Volpe left This Charming Man in early 2006, guitarist Alex Rosamilia came aboard, and the group changed its name to the Gaslight Anthem. In May 2007, the Gaslight Anthem released their first album, Sink or Swim, and the group quickly developed an underground following that gave way to mainstream acceptance with the release of 2008's The '59 Sound. Bruce Springsteen, whose music was a major influence on the Gaslight Anthem, not only gave the band a spot on the bill at his 2009 Hyde Park concert in London, but at the Glastonbury Festival later the same year, Springsteen joined the Gaslight Anthem during their set and he brought Fallon onstage to join him for part of his headlining performance. In 2010, the Gaslight Anthem released their third album, American Slang, and the following year Fallon launched a side project, the Horrible Crowes, featuring himself and guitarist Ian Perkins, who worked as a guitar tech with the Gaslight Anthem; the first Horrible Crowes album, Elsie, arrived in September 2011. With 2012's Handwritten, the Gaslight Anthem rose to major-label status, signing a deal with Mercury Records, though a corporate reorganization would move the group to Island Records for 2014's Get Hurt, a song cycle informed by Fallon's divorce. During the downtime between the two albums, Fallon teamed up with guitarist and singer Brian McGee, bassist Catherine Popper, and drummer Randy Schrager for another side project, Molly and the Zombies; Fallon has said they intend to release no studio material, though the band made several live tracks available online. In July 2015, after the Gaslight Anthem completed a tour of Europe, the bandmembers issued a statement declaring they were on indefinite hiatus, and three months later, Fallon announced he would soon be entering the studio to record a solo album. "A Wonderful Life," the first single from Fallon's solo project, was unveiled in December 2015, and the full-length album, Painkillers, dropped in March 2016. (Mark Deming, AMG)

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