Brothers In Yarn sit down for a One On One Session in the Garden during The Outlaw Roadshow in New York City on October 20th, 2016. Watch the full session here: https://youtu.be/crZpmBP-hUQ For more info visit:
http://www.Brosinyarn.com & http://theoutlawroadshow.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin Audio Mixing by: Shawn Fogel
Setlist:
The Mind's Editorial
The Silence Of Control
Halfway through the writing of their last record, Searching for Sunlight, Golden Bloom frontman Shawn Fogel found himself with an inconvenient problem: the worst writer’s block he’d ever faced. A friend suggested he read a book to try and shake off the blank page and get out of his own head. Fogel realized it had been a while since he’d sat down and made the effort to read a book: between modern day distractions like Netflix and Facebook, it had become easier and easier to avoid the kind of commitment books require. He decided to make a New Year’s Resolution to read one book a month and write a song about each one. Brothers in Yarn was born.
“Like all good New Year’s Resolutions, I made it six months before I quit,” Fogel laughs. And while it’s easy to laugh with him, it would be a huge disservice not to take Brothers in Yarn, both the band and the EP, Volume 1, seriously. The books did the trick: good art inspired more good art, and Fogel was able to break through his writer’s block. There were no rules about genre or topic, drawing on everything from Young Adult to Nonfiction. “I realized that all of the songs I had been writing for Golden Bloom were about me. Writing about something other than myself was incredibly freeing, and these songs that would become me Volume 1 felt effortlessly written.”
Recorded almost entirely by Fogel in his home studio, punctuated by the powerhouse drumming of Jason Hammel (Mates of State), and mixed by Greg Giorgio (The National, The Head and The Heart), this debut Brothers in Yarn is Fogel’s most adventurous work to date.
