EXCUSES EXCUSES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM “LISTEN UP!” DUE AUGUST 26
EXCUSES EXCUSES ANNOUNCE UPCOMING ALBUM LISTEN UP! DUE AUGUST 26TH VIA KNOWN ACCOMPLICE
RELEASE GRITTY NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “MEANING OF LIFE”
UPCOMING SHOWCASE FOR CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK ON JUNE 8 AT THE GARRISON
(Toronto, ON – May 30, 2022) Rock trio Excuses Excuses have been steadily releasing new tunes throughout the year, including “Listen Up” and “Far From Perfect,” and today they announced those two tracks will be appear on the bands upcoming full-length Listen Up! due August 26th via Known Accomplice. Giving another taste of the new album, the band have released a gritty new track called, “The Meaning of Life” – check out the video here.
Listening to the lyrics, it’s obvious that this song tackles some bigger issues. Lead singer Kyle Wilton explains, “‘Meaning of Life’ is a dialogue of internal conflict showing the emotions of guilt, anxiety, and remorse that many young people feel as they discover lives of their own and consequently grow further apart from things and people they cherish.”
The band are also gearing up to perform at Canadian Music Week on June 8th at The Garrison, apart of the Known Accomplice showcase. These guys are a must see live act. Buy tickets here.
Despite being young and uncompromising, Excuses Excuses is far from anything you’ve seen before: within the blistering heat of their frenzied live shows is a rare tenderness and an attention to the finest details of the songs. No subject matter is off limits for Excuses Excuses, from tackling the social issues of mental health (previous single “Listen Up!”), to the hardships and loneliness faced by musicians as they devote their lives to the very thing that gives them meaning (“Meaning of Life”), there is more to these songs than just three chords and their ferocious attitudes. “We’ve really honed the craft of taking the energy that we want to exude in a live setting and injecting it into good, pop songs,” Wilton continues. “And that makes it something unique. It makes people feel like they can express themselves more openly when they’re feeling you give the energy right back to them.”
Packed with raw passion, energy, and a hint of grit; the trio, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Kyle Wilton, bassist Trevor Bowman and drummer Jason Nicoll, is driven to empower millennials to find strength in self-expression and individualism, and encourages people to live their lives to the fullest potential in our restrictive, modern society. The band has developed their positive anthem rock akin to peers such as PUP, The Flatliners, and The Dirty Nil, while taking notes from all of your favourite stadium rock bands like Green Day, Billy Talent, & My Chemical Romance.
LISTEN UP!
August 26th, 2022
Say
Listen Up!
Feeling Sorry
My Nicotine
Wasted Alone
Break Down The Silence
Meaning of Life
Hardship to Sail
More about Excuses Excuses:
Rock and roll: young hearts, alive, wild, and free, under the lights of a club stage, in front of decibel-bending amplifiers, behind a wall of shaking fists and shouting friends, conjuring the spirits, cleansing with fire. Like an untamed and ferocious animal, you can feel and hear it all wash over you like waves from your place in the crowd. It is here that Excuses Excuses are most at home.
Unlike some of their contemporaries however, Excuses Excuses don’t rely on just their energetic spirit alone: Excuses Excuses expertly pairs their unconfined, youthful energy with a pop sensibility and a focused sense of attention to the most subtle details of meticulously catchy songwriting.
“I was always very attracted to high energy music, and that started with Sabbath,” recalls singer and guitarist Kyle Wilton, reminiscing of rifling through a dusty record collection, the spirit of rock and roll at his fingertips, right there for the taking. “But all of our songs really mean something very specific, and although we want people to interpret them however it makes sense to them, you’ve got to communicate those emotions in a way that people are going to feel.”
Despite being young and uncompromising, Excuses Excuses is far from anything you’ve seen before: within the blistering heat of their frenzied live shows is a rare tenderness and an attention to the finest details of the songs. No subject matter is off limits for Excuses Excuses, from tackling the social issues of mental health (“Listen Up!”), to the powerful negative impacts of mass media (“Feeling Sorry”), to the hardships and loneliness faced by musicians as they devote their lives to the very thing that gives them meaning (“Meaning of Life”), there is more to these songs than just three chords and their ferocious attitudes. “We’ve really honed the craft of taking the energy that we want to exude in a live setting and injecting it into good, pop songs,” Wilton continues. “And that makes it something unique. It makes people feel like they can express themselves more openly when they’re feeling you give the energy right back to them.”
Excuses Excuses come armed with a lawless desire to make a true believer out of everyone—and that means everyone—in the room with their jaw-dropping intensity and melody-heavy songs. From the veteran jaded rocker in the front, to the fading bartender claiming to have “seen it all,” to the star-crossed lovers soon to meet in the front row: all are tender prey, fair game, and converts in the making. “That’s where we live, on the road. That’s the best way to express our music,” Wilton admits earnestly. “The emotion is so much more and speaks a whole new volume to the story when somebody can perform it to you as opposed to you just listening to it. That’s the best way for us to communicate our songs to the world, is to show them.”
Rock and roll is a weapon, a promise, an energy, and it captivates and inspires, pulling us within the fiery whirlpool of its deadly spell. Carrying that torch into a new era of young, sweaty, and overdriven rock and rollers, yet standing apart from those that have come before them, Excuses Excuses come armed with generations of melodies, influences, and inspirations to draw from.
TOUR DATES
June 8 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison (Canadian Music Week)
June 18 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwell’s Block Party
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