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(*both laugh*) is somehow up to 58 episodes, but we're still having fun and some of y'all seem to still enjoy it, so we'll keep rolling! This episode finds us catching up with the great Brian McTernan again. McTernan was the guest on Episode 15 a couple of years ago, in the lead-up to the debut Be Well album, "The Weight And The Cost." Next Friday (May 20th if you're reading this in the future), Be Well is back with a brand new album! It's a six-song EP called "Hello Sun," and it finds the band expanding the sonic palette that I thought they had perfected on "TW&TC." It's really great and personal and haunting and melodic and everything you want form a post-hardcore record (or whatever, I don't get labels) and more. We talk an awful lot about the new album and the musical directions.
In a bit of unexpected synchronicity, May is also Mental Health Awareness Month, and Brian is no stranger to talking about his struggles with depression and alcohol use and more, as is pretty obvious if you listened to the last album. We talk about that, but about how the new album, while "dark," isn't dark for dark's sake; it's written from the perspective of someone who has moved through the darkness and worked towards a newfound light. Thus, "Hello Sun."
We also talked a lot about the newest Hot Water Music Record, "Feel The Void." After having worked on "A Flight And A Crash" and "Caution" and "The New What Next" roughly two decades ago, McTernan found himself both reconnected with the now five-piece band during the early days of the Covid lockdown and at the helm of "Feel The Void." It was a fascinating time in that band's history and produced an important album, and McTernan's work (and point of view) are invaluable. And we talk a lot about their upcoming tour dates, and there are a TON of them on both sides of the Atlantic, including a lengthy run with New Found Glory and a UK/EU jaunt with Hot Water Music and Samiam.
"Hello Sun" on Bandcamp: https://bewellhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/hello-sun
"Hello Sun" US/Canada vinyl on Revelation Records: https://revhq.com/products/be-well-hello-sun
"Hello Sun" UK/EU vinyl on End Hits: https://endhitsrecords.com/products/be-well-hello-sun
Be Well merch store: https://bewell.merchnow.com/
(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021
(*both laugh*) Episode 59: The Venomous Pinks!
(*both laugh*) Episode 57: The Return of Dave Hause!
(*both laugh*) Episode 56: Proper. (the full band!) on their ground-breaking new album, The Great American Novel
Episode 55 of (*both laugh*): Jason Black on the new Hot Water Music album Feel The Void, and the band’s legacy
(*both laugh*) Episode 54: Kristen from Mable Syndrome on our Women’s History Month crossover!
(*both laugh*) Episode 53: Frank Turner on his #1 album, FTHC!
(*both laugh*) Episode 52: Tuna Tardugno of Sweat on the band’s debut LP
(*both laugh*) Episode 51: Sarah Shook!!
(*both laugh*) Episode 50: Hushdrops’ John San Juan!!
(*both laugh*) Episode 49: Josh Freese on his new solo record and SO MUCH MORE
(*both laugh*) Episode 48: The Return of Josh Caterer (Smoking Popes)
(*both laugh*) Episode 47: Jesse Ahern!
(*both laugh*) Episode 46: Lars Frederiksen on his debut solo record, ”To Victory”!
(*both laugh*) Episode 45: Weakened Friends‘ Sonia Sturino on the band‘s new album, Quitter!
(*both laugh*) Episode 44: Franz Nicolay on his debut novel, "Someone Should Pay For Your Pain"
(*both laugh*) Episode 43: Suzi Moon!!
(*both laugh*) Episode 42: Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) on his new solo album, "I Should Be Outside"
(*both laugh*) Episode 41: Nate Cook from The Yawpers!
(*both laugh*) Episode 40: Chachy from Round Eye! (Shanghai freak-punk)
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