{"product_id":"fiddlehead-between-the-richness","title":"FIDDLEHEAD - Between the Richness","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"827\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"14\"\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/strong\u003e wasn’t supposed to make a second record. But, if we’re being totally honest, they weren’t supposed to make their first record either. Formed in what singer Pat Flynn describes as “a deeply, deeply, laughably depressing part of my life,” Fiddlehead was born with modest intentions. Flynn and his then-roommate, guitarist Alex Dow, decided to work on some songs, and with \u003cstrong data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"397\"\u003eBasement\u003c\/strong\u003e having just broken up, guitarist Alex Henery entered the fold. Drummer Shawn Costa and bassist Adam Gonsalves, who has since been replaced by Casey Nealon, linked up with them and, all together, they wrote what would become the \u003cem data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"644\"\u003eOut Of The Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e EP. Those five songs established what Fiddlehead would be, a band that merged elements of post-hardcore, post-punk, and classic ’80s emo into something that felt distinctly theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"829\" data-end=\"1577\"\u003eAfter the release of their debut album \u003cem data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"888\"\u003eSpringtime \u0026amp; Blind\u003c\/em\u003e, the band did some weekend-long tours, and saw that their music was hitting people harder than they ever expected. “Kids were singing along in a very desperate way and we realized it wasn’t just resonating with us, it was resonating with these people in a really meaningful way,” says Flynn. \u003cem data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1201\"\u003eSpringtime \u0026amp; Blind\u003c\/em\u003e was a hit for many reasons, but chief among them was Flynn’s open-hearted exploration of his father’s passing, which saw him use his lyrics as a means of relating to and understanding his mother’s grief. So when it came time for Fiddlehead to work on a second record, people weren’t just curious what the songs would sound like, they were curious what they’d even be about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1579\" data-end=\"2415\"\u003eOpening with \u003cem data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1605\"\u003eGrief Motif\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1629\"\u003eBetween The Richness\u003c\/em\u003e effectively picks up where \u003cem data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"1677\"\u003eSpringtime \u0026amp; Blind\u003c\/em\u003e left off, as Flynn dives headfirst into that same subject matter. But astute listeners will notice a major difference this time: Flynn is singing about himself. “These massive things happened in my life between the first record and this record. It just so happened that I ended up getting married, I had a child, and it was around the 10-year anniversary of my father’s passing. So what if I want to write another record about how I feel about the loss of my father? Will people be like, ‘Pick another topic, dude.’ So, the opening track is called ‘Grief Motif’ because it’s the idea that this is an eternal struggle that will never go away. Take it or leave it, but it will be part of this dude as long as he’s got a pen in the hand.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2417\" data-end=\"2965\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"2417\" data-end=\"2439\"\u003eBetween The Richness\u003c\/em\u003e explodes with an energy that usurps that of \u003cem data-start=\"2484\" data-end=\"2504\"\u003eSpringtime \u0026amp; Blind\u003c\/em\u003e. The guitar riffs of Dow and Henery are their most anthemic and combustive yet, making songs like \u003cem data-start=\"2603\" data-end=\"2614\"\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"2616\" data-end=\"2635\"\u003eGet My Mind Right\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-start=\"2641\" data-end=\"2658\"\u003eDown University\u003c\/em\u003e not just serve as the backbone for Flynn’s personal ruminations, but empathetic, emotional musical stabs that hit the listener just as hard. Meanwhile, Costa and Nealon give the songs a propulsive heft, allowing a track like \u003cem data-start=\"2884\" data-end=\"2899\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eMillion Times\u003c\/em\u003e to dart into unexpected territories without ever feeling alien.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2967\" data-end=\"3559\"\u003eBut at the center of it all is Flynn. He’s a different person than he was on \u003cem data-start=\"3044\" data-end=\"3064\"\u003eSpringtime \u0026amp; Blind\u003c\/em\u003e, because he’s now a father himself. And that experience colors the journey he goes on throughout the album. “We started writing this record two weeks after my son was born, and I think it’s a really great way for him when he’s older, and when I’m gone, to say, ‘My father wrote this in the first year of my life. What does that mean?’ Lyrically, I tried to show that there were a lot of profound moments in my life, and in the last song, I tried to write what was explicitly a letter to him.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3561\" data-end=\"4346\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThat last song, \u003cem data-start=\"3577\" data-end=\"3593\"\u003eHeart To Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, is emotionally wrenching, as Flynn explains to his son what it means to experience profound joy and life-altering loss all at once. “The name of the record is called \u003cem data-start=\"3761\" data-end=\"3783\"\u003eBetween The Richness\u003c\/em\u003e because it’s important to me to explore the weird feeling of happiness and sadness, because that’s just where I am right now,” says Flynn. “My son’s name is Richard and my father’s name is Richard, so it’s literally between the two of them, but it’s the richness of life and the richness of death. It was important for me to capture that perfectly paradoxical feeling; that was the problem I was trying to solve on this record. And I don’t think I solved it, but I definitely feel less stressed out and befuddled by that weird clashing of happiness and sadness.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RUN FOR COVER","offers":[{"title":"Violet Vinyl LP","offer_id":57903732293977,"sku":"SDZ-44973","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/1002be353ee41e865ac00f0f464ea736.jpg?v=1776959063","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/fiddlehead-between-the-richness","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}