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Since the release of Anxious’ debut album Little Green House earlier this year, the band hasn’t spent much time at home. In support of the record, Anxious has toured relentlessly, playing five consecutive U.S. tours in the eight months since the album came out. That busy schedule has meant Anxious has barely had a moment to stop and catch their collective breath, but that frantic pace also inspired them to keep on pushing forward. The result is new single, “Sunsign” a standalone single that builds on Anxious’ sonic signature and expands the band’s sound simultaneously.
On "Sunsign" Anxious–made up of vocalist Grady Allen, guitarist/vocalist Dante Melucci, bassist Sam Allen, and drummer Jonny Camner–takes yet another step forward. The urgency that carried Little Green House is still there, but it’s presented in new, engaging ways. The song has a sprawl that feels like a marked evolution of the band’s sound while retaining all the earnest emotion that fans have come to love. “We’ve gotten a lot of questions around Little Green House if there were conscious efforts to do certain things, and the answer is no, there was no conscious effort ever to create a sound, replicate a sound, any of that,” says Allen, “It was just us trying to create something that we felt was wholeheartedly something we wanted to do. And I think that energy was consistent with us putting these songs together.”
With Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday, The Front Bottoms, Oso Oso) producing and engineering, Anxious are given a layered warmth that suits the band’s growing interests. At times sounding like if The Get Up Kids and Modern Baseball both had studied the Revelation Records catalog, “Sunsign” is a fresh take on the band’s signature sound. “I don’t think Anxious is trying to constrict itself to any binary and is, instead, trying to lead with what feels organic and what we want to create rather than trying to chase something,” says Allen.
Lyrically, the songs taps deeper into the transparently reflective nature that Anxious has always put on display. “Sunsign” grapples with feeling inadequate next to your romantic partner and wishing to be more than you are, all while still remaining true to yourself. It's about the wish to close the gap between distances both real and metaphorical, the perfect emotions for Anxious to explore.
lyrics
not in line with my sun’s sign
i strip skin from my neck while
everything that’s in front of us
is a mess when onset I
see my friends in my cell phone
drawing circles in flesh tones
everything is in front us
could this be just a bad moment?
so well talk and you’ll listen
you’re the feeling i’m missing
am i work when i want help
am i thinking bout myself?
can we shed at the forepart?
can we stand in front of us?
i call you again and you answer the same
common sense gets me so tired
everything gets just so hard
everything that’s in front of us
looks so heavy when I
see my friends in my cell phone
drawing circles in flesh tones
everything is in front of us
calling out in my unknowns
but i’m afraid of growing up and awkward spaces different thoughts but i’m the same and i complain again.
in all the ways you show me up your gentle prose thats somewhat sure that i’m the same and i’ll complain again.
if i keep feeling, you’ll only call me when i stop
