SELFISH THINGS - neuer Song "Sunlight"
Die kanadische Alternative-Rock-Band SELFISH THINGS spendet "Sunlight" direkt aus Toronto.
Modern, energetisch, eindringlich, catchy und authentisch. "Sunlight" eine Hymne zum Aufwachen.
09.03. SELFISH THINGS – "Sunlight" (FLG Records/OPEN): https://youtu.be/zCgvbHaQ3LY
Sieben Jahre nach ihrem Debütalbum melden sich Selfish Things mit "Sunlight" via FLG Records, zurück.
Frontmann Alex Biro, der seit vier Jahren trocken ist und als Suchtberater und Coach in der Musikbranche arbeitet, hat die meiste Zeit abseits der Band damit verbracht, alte Gewohnheiten abzulegen, zu heilen und an einem Leben voller Akzeptanz und Authentizität zu arbeiten.
Ein Leben, das die universelle Erfahrung von Leid widerspiegeln soll, die als Motor für positive Veränderungen wirken kann.
Biro kommentierte: “I don’t believe in being dishonest in my recovery. ‘Sunlight’ came out of a weekend six months into my sobriety when I’d come to realize that being sober didn’t mean happiness, peace, or calm. They don’t tell you in the hospital that things typically get worse in the first year before they get better. You’re left to take stock of how far you fell from who you were meant to be, and how much you let those you loved (and by proxy, your friends, bandmates, and fans) down in the process of self-immolating”.
“I had never wanted to live and die more at the same time. I had never felt the searing reality of how far I’d fallen from the mountain I’d climbed. ‘Sunlight’ to me is an attempt to triumph over the void of the hole I’d created in my own spirit”, he added. “A meditation on what it means to be painfully human in front of the world. To be fallible, to make mistakes, and to drink the dirtied water from a well you poisoned yourself.”
Originally a moniker for Biro, Selfish Things released their debut EP “Vertical Love” (A Wolf at Your Door Records) produced by James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath, Dashboard Confessional). The release earned the attention of BBC Radio 1’s Dan P. Carter and earned the band a 2017 cover spot on Spotify’s New Noise playlist.
Their 2019 debut LP “Logos” (Pure Noise Records) produced by Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose, Beartooth, Lil Peep) landed the band on multiple Billboard charts before the COVID-19 pandemic cut the album cycle short, forcing the band into hiatus.
In the years since, Biro and bandmate Michael Ticar have collaborated with Juno Award–winning producer Mike Tompa, writing music born from the tail end of addiction and carried into sobriety.
Now four years sober and working in peer support within the touring community, Biro says the band’s return feels less like a comeback and more like a reckoning - a chance to speak plainly about addiction, mental health, and the danger of freezing people at their worst moments.
With “Sunlight”, Selfish Things return not chasing spectacle, but carrying truth - fuelled by the belief that the moments that nearly end us are often the ones that wake us up.
SELFISH THINGS are:
Alex Biro
Michael Ticar
Quelle: cmm-consulting for music and media