Til september vender Will Butler tilbage med sit andet soloalbum Generations – førstesinglen ’Surrender’ ude nu
På de fem år, der er gået siden Will Butler udgav sit solo debutalbum Policy, har han turneret verden rundt, både som soloartist og med Arcade Fire. Herudover har Butler udgivet sit Friday Night-livealbum, indspillet og udgivet Arcade Fires #1 album Everything Now, taget sin masters degree i offentlig politik fra Harvard, og brugt tid med sine tre børn.
Samtidig har Will Butler også fundet tid og inspiration til at skrive og indspille sit nye album Generations, der udkommer d. 25. september på Merge / Playground Music i Norden.
Sammen med annonceringen af det kommende album, udgiver Butler i dag sin første single ’Surrender’ med en selvinstrueret musikvideo, der kan ses her:
Om sangen fortæller Will Butler:
”“Surrender” is masquerading as a love song, but it’s more about friendship. About the confusion that comes as people change—didn’t you use to have a different ideal? Didn’t we have the same ideal at some point? Which of us changed? How did the world change? Relationships that we sometimes wish we could let go of, but that are stuck within us forever.
It’s also about trying to break from the first-person view of the world. “What can I do? What difference can I make?” It’s not about some singular effort—you have to give yourself over to another power. Give over to people who have gone before who’ve already built something—you don’t have to build something new! The world doesn’t always need a new idea, it doesn’t always need a new personality. What can you do with whatever power and money you’ve got? Surrender it over to something that’s already made. And then the song ends with an apology—I’m sorry I’ve been talking all night. Cause talking like that, man, not always useful.”
Generations er indspillet og produceret af Butler selv i sin kælder i Brooklyn. Albummet blev færdiggjort i marts 2020, da New York lukkede ned pga. pandemien. Halvdelen af det kommende album er mixet i Montreal af tekniker Mark Lawson, der længe har arbejdet sammen med Arcade Fire. Den anden halvdel er mixet af Brooklyn-produceren Shiftee.