{"product_id":"atlas-genius-end-of-the-tunnel-indie-retail-exclusive","title":"Atlas Genius End Of The Tunnel (Indie Retail Exclusive)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAtlas Genius\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“And we fought with the system\/And it went to our heads\/We tried to be Romans\/Now we’re\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ebeggars instead” “Romans”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor seasoned Australian alternative stalwarts Atlas Genius, their third album – and first in nine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eyears – End of the Tunnel on the Orchard comes after a trying time that included leaving Warner Records and then their adopted base of Los Angeles for home just before the pandemic shut down the world. Whether that’s a light or an oncoming train in their path, the band’s lead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003evocalist\/guitarist\/writer and founding member Keith Jeffery is looking ahead, not over his\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eshoulder, on 11 songs which reflect that turmoil and growth, both personal and universal, over\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe past several years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We’re happy enough just to get this album out, above everything else,” admits Keith, with the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eband in “musical purgatory” due to another aborted label deal. “We have no expectations this\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003etime.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe previously released “Elegant Strangers” is a melodic ode to the drug-fueled L.A. faux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eschmooze culture, “dressed for the morning sun\/Mirrors and razors,” already charting at\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSiriusXM’s Alt Nation. The opening disco-inflected track, “Falling So Hard,” offers a longing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esong for a lover “oceans apart.” It’s a theme explored as well on “Nobody Loves Like You,” with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeith’s falsetto and funky guitar solo underlining a tale of missing someone “half the world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eaway,” a dance-rock track that combines the club floor and the furthest reaches of the arena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe epic orchestral intro to the geo-political tract “Don’t Let Love be a Stranger,” “Can’t Be Alone Tonight” and “On a Wave,” inspired by Keith’s passion for surfing, sport an anthemic melodic drive with whisper-to-a-scream dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s not really about the water, though I used to love to surf,” says Keith about “On a Wave,”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s like riding that emotional roller coaster, trying to maintain your balance despite all of life’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eups and downs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Romans” examines a dysfunctional relationship Jeffery experienced while in L.A. “We were\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eseemingly under control, like Romans, but we were really just bullshitting and using one\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eanother,” explains Keith, a Pisces and admitted “hopeless” romantic. “Animals” and “Do Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis Way” offer thumping, funky odes to unbridled, passionate lust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“’Animals’ is just about the chemistry between people,” observed Keith. “The coy games that\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecouples play, the dance of courtship which results in marriage and kids or is simply a one-night\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003estand. ‘Do Me This Way’ is about indulging in all the wrong shit in L.A., when you should be\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efocusing on what you need to be doing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“All for nothing, all for show\/If all else fails, at least we rode,” “On a Wave”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAtlas Genius started out in Victor Harbor, a tiny town an hour south of Adelaide on the coast of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esouthern Australia in 2011 with Keith and his brothers Michael on drums and Steve on bass and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ekeys along with keyboardist Darren Sell, working out of a home studio they built with funds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efrom playing at local bars. Signed worldwide to Warner Records, Atlas Genius released a three-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esong EP and two full-length albums. The debut, When It Was Now, dropped in 2013, producing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe SiriusXM Alt Nation hit, “Trojans,” the album peaking at #3 on the Billboard Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003echart (where it remained for over 52 straight weeks), and #34 on the Billboard 200, with a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esecond single, “If So,” hitting #8 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Inanimate Objects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecame out two years later, with the first single, “Molecules,” going Top 10 on Billboard’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlternative Airplay chart, where it spent 22 weeks before the band was unceremoniously\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003edropped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We have to remind people that we’re still here,” acknowledges Keith. “I feel very positive about\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethings now. You have to go through a really shit period to appreciate what you’ve got. We’re\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eready to put the past behind us, to emerge from the ‘End of the Tunnel’ into the sunlight. We’re\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eexcited to start playing these new songs for people. It’s about time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is by far our strongest album from front to back, mainly because we had the time to get it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eright. These 11 songs are the best from the more than hundred I’ve written over that time. I’m\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ejust very happy with how it turned out.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndie exclusive \"aqua\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2024-08-23 00:00:00 -0400\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest Sellers: Overstock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Atlas Genius","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079958106305,"sku":"WPJ1J3-P9P9-DV","price":23.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2176\/9085\/files\/atlas-genius-end-of-the-tunnel-indie-retail-exclusive_hNwpU.png?v=1774435787","url":"https:\/\/fsgprints.com\/products\/atlas-genius-end-of-the-tunnel-indie-retail-exclusive","provider":"Feels So Good","version":"1.0","type":"link"}