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It’s been almost a decade since the boys from Shark? released new music. But three years ago, they found time to get away to a cabin in the Catskills, and recorded themselves jamming over the course of a weekend, the band members switching instruments constantly.
Lead singer and songwriter Kevin Diamond took the best parts of those jams and stitched them together into a number of songs, then recorded vocals and overdubs in his home office in Beacon, NY to finish them.
Those Frankenstein songs came together into a record. That record is called A Simple Life.
Lead single, “King of the Chaff" is about as classic a Shark? song, at least thematically, as it comes. Reminiscent of early Shark? live set staple "I'm An Animal,” It has a similar semi-slacker loser attitude, though here it is filtered through twenty years of jobs, marriages, children, mortgages, car payments, and more. The capitalist machine has chewed them up and spit them out. No longer yearning to be the wheat, they just wanna be the best chaff they can be.
And that sort of sums up the entire record. Acceptance of where we are in life. Finding happiness with the ones we love, finding peace in the space we can make for ourselves. Wanting less. Struggling more than ever but being thankful for what we have. Call it a mid life crisis record if you'd like, but hopefully one with an ultimately positive outlook on it all.
Lead singer and songwriter Kevin Diamond took the best parts of those jams and stitched them together into a number of songs, then recorded vocals and overdubs in his home office in Beacon, NY to finish them.
Those Frankenstein songs came together into a record. That record is called A Simple Life.
Lead single, “King of the Chaff" is about as classic a Shark? song, at least thematically, as it comes. Reminiscent of early Shark? live set staple "I'm An Animal,” It has a similar semi-slacker loser attitude, though here it is filtered through twenty years of jobs, marriages, children, mortgages, car payments, and more. The capitalist machine has chewed them up and spit them out. No longer yearning to be the wheat, they just wanna be the best chaff they can be.
And that sort of sums up the entire record. Acceptance of where we are in life. Finding happiness with the ones we love, finding peace in the space we can make for ourselves. Wanting less. Struggling more than ever but being thankful for what we have. Call it a mid life crisis record if you'd like, but hopefully one with an ultimately positive outlook on it all.
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