Cut Throat Finches is going to space—sort of. Their latest record is a concept album, In Event of Moon Disaster, is the Fort Worth rock band’s follow-up to last summer’s Polite Conversation. Singer Sean Russell believes creating the record, while challenging, also gave the band a fun amount of newfound freedom. Kind of like going to the moon.
The record will release on Friday,
Aug. 16 on Hand Drawn Records with release parties on Friday, Aug. 9 at Double Wide in Deep Ellum at 9 p.m. (3510 Commerce St.) and Saturday, Aug. 10 in Main at South Side in Fort Worth at 9 p.m. (MASS –1002 S. Main St.). Tickets can be purchased online here and here, or in advance or at the door.
“It was our first experience with a concept album, and it ended up being our most collectively creative album thus far,” he says. “When you’re focused on one subject and giving that all of your energy, that allows you to do some of your best creative work.”
The album is inspired by and named after a speech written for President Richard Nixon.The ominous speech was intended for use should the members of Apollo 11 not return from their venture to the moon. The band’s drummer Draya Ruse, a history buff, discovered the speech on the digital archives, and was enthralled by the beauty and surreal nature of this strange artifact from history.
“We imagined it like the way they tested the moon landing–little snippets of timeline infused with feeling,”
Russell says. “It kept growing and growing, and we enjoyed the process so much that it became a full-length album.”
The seven-track album includes snippets from the speech, too, with Danny Balis of The Ticket fame
contributing a 60’s PSA-style voiceover. While the real speech was never used, Russell admires what the speech—and the moon landing—say about America. “As we learned more about this moment in history, we saw how the mission was a uniting force; it was a sign of what we were, and what we could be again.
Like their last record, this album is colored by the tumultuous political times in which we live. Russell refers to the band’s last couple of records as “two sides of the same coin.” It’s also a giant leap forward for the band, which hopes the concept album as appeal beyond lovers of rock, space and their last work. “We want to have that one song that just takes off,” Russell says. “Our goal is always to reach a wider audience, and to make music that means a lot to a lot of people.”
In Event of Moon Disaster will be available for purchase on vinyl pressed locally at Hand Drawn Pressing, iTunes and streaming on Spotify and across all major streaming platforms on Friday, Aug. 16. The group was nominated for 2019 “Rock Band of the Year,” “Album of the Year,” “Best Live Act,” and “Video of the Year”at this year’s Fort Worth Weekly Awards.
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