What does that mean?’” It’s an attempt to put words to that strange place we all exist in, that place between the richness. “We started writing this record two weeks after my son was born, and it’s a really great way for him when he’s older-and when I’m gone-to say, ‘My father wrote this in the first year of my life. It was important for me to capture that perfectly paradoxical feeling,” says Flynn. But it’s also the richness of life and the richness of death. “My son’s name is Richard and my father’s name is Richard, so it’s literally between the two of them. And that experience colors the journey he goes on throughout the album. He’s a different person than he was on Springtime & Blind, because he’s now a father himself. Meanwhile, Costa and Nealon give the songs a propulsive heft, allowing a track like “Million Times” to dart into unexpected territories without ever feeling alien.īut at the center if it all is Flynn. The guitar riffs of Dow and Henery are their most anthemic and combustive yet, making songs like “The Years,” “Get My Mind Right,” and “Down University” not just serve as the backbone for Flynn’s personal ruminations, but empathetic, emotional musical stabs that hit the listener just as hard. Take it or leave it, but it will be part of this dude as long as he’s got a pen in the hand.”īetween The Richness explodes with an energy that usurps that of Springtime & Blind. So what if I want to write another record about how I feel about the loss of my father? Will people be like, ‘Pick another topic, dude.’ So, the opening track is called ‘Grief Motif’ because it’s the idea that this is an eternal struggle that will never go away. It just so happened that I ended up getting married, I had a child, and it was around the 10-year anniversary of my father’s passing. “These massive things happened in my life between the first record and this record.
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But astute listeners will notice a major difference this time: Flynn is singing about himself. So when it came time for Fiddlehead to work on a second record, people weren’t just curious what the songs would sound like, they were curious what they’d even be about.īetween The Richness effectively picks up where Springtime & Blind left off, as Flynn dives headfirst into that same subject. Springtime & Blind was a hit for many reasons, but chief among them was Flynn’s open-hearted exploration of his father’s passing, which saw him use his lyrics as a means of relating to and understanding his mother’s grief. “Kids were singing along in a very desperate way and we realized it wasn’t just resonating with us, it was resonating with these people in a really meaningful way,” says Flynn. Those five songs established what Fiddlehead would be, a band that merged elements of post-hardcore, post-punk, and classic ‘80s emo into something that felt distinctly theirs.Īfter the release of their debut album Springtime & Blind, the band did some weekend-long tours, and saw that their music was hitting people harder than they ever expected. Drummer Shawn Costa and bassist Adam Gonsalves-who has since been replaced by Casey Nealon-linked up with them and, all together, they wrote what would become the Out Of The Bloom EP. Flynn and his then-roommate, guitarist Alex Dow, decided to work on some songs, and with Basement having just broken up, guitarist Alex Henery entered the fold. Formed in what singer Pat Flynn describes as “a deeply, deeply, laughably depressing part of my life,” Fiddlehead was born with modest intentions. But, if we’re being totally honest, they weren’t supposed to make their first record either. It took 30 years to return to the farm, and it was worth the wait.UK/EU Customers: Order this product from our UK Store by clicking here.įiddlehead wasn’t supposed to make a second record. Think of it like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a low-budget, cult legend.
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