BrainGilliams Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 (edited) Life changes. It’s the natural order of things. As you get older, friendships evolve, relationships fade, and surroundings change. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but trying to find your place and a sense of balance in all of life’s changes is something no one really prepares you for. The four members of Cleveland’s Signals Midwest can certainly attest to that. In eight years, they’ve borne witness to graduations and weddings, moves and funerals, new loves and heartbreak. But through it all, the one constant in the lives of vocalist/guitarist Max Stern, bassist Loren Shumaker, guitarist Jeff Russell, and drummer Steve Gibson has been this band. At This Age, the quartet’s fourth full-length album, is both a testament to change and a reflection of a band at a pivotal moment in their lives. When you’re a young punk, the idea of devoting your life to music — writing songs and traveling the country with your best friends — doesn’t seem that hard: Write songs, get in the van, and go. “Will we make any money? Will our jobs still be there when we get back? How will we pay our rent next month? Who cares? As long as we’ve got each other and this band, that’s all that matters.” It’s an ethos that guides many bands in the beginning, but after a while, it’s not an easy attitude to maintain. “I was asking myself questions like ‘How do I evolve as a person but retain what I love? How do I advance through the world but sustain the things that excited me when I was first discovering them?’” says Stern of At This Age. These are the questions that guide the album, which marks some of the band’s most stark and mature songwriting to date. “I tried to approach songs from a few different viewpoints to really explore that world,” Stern says. “This is the first time that I've written songs from a point of view other than my own, across age and gender and identity.” If Latitudes and Longitudes is a document of a band discovering their voice, and Light on The Lake is them honing in on their sound, then At This Age finds Signals Midwest hitting their stride. “It’s a much more stripped-down jammer,” Russell says, “We just had fun. Everything came naturally and it seems like we finally found our stride in the writing process.” And it shows. Produced by Into It. Over It.’s Evan Weiss and recorded at Atlas Studios in Chicago IL, At This Age might be the band’s most stripped-down songwriting, but it’s an album that sounds huge. At times urgent and anthemic, and at others intimate and poignant, At This Age isn’t just an album, it’s a part of Signals Midwest; a cathartic release of angst and anxiety and vulnerability and maturation. It’s their way of communicating with the world and navigating the creeping fear that comes with change. “This band is not only my escape from the mundane activities of everyday life,” Gibson says, “but it’s a chance to get together with some of my best friends in the world and do something that we can all be proud of.” Eight years is a long time. For a band, it’s an eternity. What does the future hold for Signals Midwest? What does the future hold for any of us? Change is perhaps the most unpredictable and inevitable force in the universe: We can’t stop it. All we can do is to try to prepare for it. In the meantime, the best we can do is stop every once in a while to appreciate the people we have in our lives in that moment — it might not last. “It's crazy to think that it's been a constant in our lives for nearly a decade,” Stern says. “That's wild. That's longer than any job or relationship I’ve ever had.” —Matt Cohen Track Listing You're Gonna Be Golden Should Have Been A Painter West Side Summer At This Age Alchemy Hour We Drive Forever Like It's Nothing Autumn Breaks Spillover Who I Was Before We Met Song For Ana Pressing Information First Pressing: 125 Turquoise w/ White Starburst 175 Opaque Light Gray/Blue 200 Opaque Tangerine 500 Black Edited June 25, 2016 by BrainGilliams Shitty Rambo and mesi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesi Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Easily my most anticipated release of the year. Preorders will be up next week. BrainGilliams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prestonlanes Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Can't wait! BrainGilliams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
converge88 Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Very excited. Light on the lake was by far my favorite release of the whole year and this will probably be too. BrainGilliams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesi Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Pre-orders and new song tomorrow! So excited! Edited June 27, 2016 by mesi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xschurzix Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheriver Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 http://www.stereogum.com/1883631/signals-midwest-west-side-summer-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/ items being added to the store right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWindBlower Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 That new song is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheriver Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Preorders up around noon (eastern). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Oh fuck yeah they're repressing Latitudes & Longitudes also and will have a bundle to get that with Light on the Lake. It'd be nice if they did a bundle of all 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Satan and TheWindBlower 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Also 18 minutes ago, TheWindBlower said: That new song is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheriver Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Twitter update: 1PMish now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Dammit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 If anyone wants a copy of Light On the Lake I have 3 for 15ppd each I believe they are orange blue and clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 6 minutes ago, dantheriver said: Twitter update: 1PMish now. Shit... at least I can stop the constant refreshing for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesi Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) It's up Edited June 28, 2016 by mesi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
converge88 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, mesi said: It's up Nothing for me yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Got an /125 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesi Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) http://www.tinyengines.net/products/574498-signals-midwest-at-this-age-pre-order Shirt bundle here: http://www.tinyengines.net/products/574497-signals-midwest-at-this-age-seagull-tee-bundle-pre-order Edited June 28, 2016 by mesi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouLoveHisWife Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Grabbed dat /125. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
converge88 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 /125 acquired Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelansegur Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Two of the 125 go to .. Germany .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Got the /125 of the new album and the /100 & /200 of the previous albums bundle! Edited June 28, 2016 by FiggyPuddling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesi Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Did anyone pick up the second press starburst of Light On The Lake yet and have a picture? I did not find one yet. Edited June 28, 2016 by mesi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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