Townies – ‘Of This I Am Certain’

The wait is finally over… Townies debut album Of This I Am Certain is now available everywhere!

Everything we’ve tried to write just didn’t do the album justice. So, we’ve asked the band to send us over a little bit about the album and what it means to them.

Stream the new album – here – and read through what they wrote below. Enjoy!

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From Townies:

OTIAC is the ten proudest songs in Townies’ discography. Townies are three best friends who make music in their free time while working full time careers in Los Angeles, meaning that a ten-song endeavor would take a long, long time to execute. We promised each other from day one to appreciate the process; whether it was leaving a rehearsal thinking our newest idea for a song was utter garbage, or getting the email back from Joe Reinhart that he would fly to LA to record with us (we had joked for ages about getting him work with us, thinking it was a total pipe dream), to feeling like my eyes were going to melt from their sockets as I stumbled into my corporate job after 6 14-hour sessions at Balboa Studios, wondering if these songs could ever possibly mean anything to anyone. 

The biggest challenge was finding a way to make this album flow when each song felt so different from one another. This album is like a love letter to all of our musical influences - how The Menzingers make the simplest songs feel so relistenable with big melodies, but never betray their punk roots; how Macseal keeps you on your toes because you never know how they might alter the rhythm on a familiar progression the next time around; how Pinegrove and Brand New assign lyrical interpretation to the hands of the listener, while still communicating the essential themes as clear as day…

We hope that OTIAC can serve a purpose for those in search of one. We hope that the same track that feels so gut wrenching and personal to one listener can be a windows-down singalong to another. It’s strange being a twenty-something in this day and age; you have just enough of a worldview that everything should make sense, but for some reason you can’t help feeling helpless. We treated this album, from day one to day 700, as the only album we might ever have the chance to make. There is nothing that we would change, and I am so glad that you get to hear it.