Chosen by Monk
The Girls Against Boys frontman is determined to #MakeItToForever with the release of his debut solo album at the end of this month, and he makes his intentions clear and sets out his routemap to fulfilling them with this, the title track:
Scott spoke is about the background to this solo venture:
In a way, all relationships are simply conversations. Some are brief flashes, sparks, which may extinguish as quickly as they began. Others last longer, or pause for years – only to pick up again where they left off. Some maybe never end.
Years ago our band Girls Against Boys had one of those – once in a lifetime dream-like shows in Athens, Greece which for me epitomized a moment in time. Later, I decided to go back and make a record there – in this place which holds an almost mythological meaning to me.
To record music in a city which is more or less a dream is affecting. One is out of place – a visitor- time traveler. Visiting scenes. Alienating and yet comforting. These songs are about memories – romances – ideas – which remain alive and ever changing. The reality of experience itself blurred by time.
Music is of course also a conversation- between riffs, motifs- questions and answers. And more questions. Jokes, language, flirtations. Atmosphere.
Ultimately, the longest conversation we may ever have is with ourselves. Sitting with a notebook, watching the street life – mopeds & graffiti. The memories we carry become treasures – worlds to revisit which are still alive. And like cities and songs they don’t stop living.
The biggest part of who we are is perhaps what we remember.
- ‘Make It To Forever‘ is released via God Unknown Records on Friday 30 January.
- Scott McCloud plays two solo shows, at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on Wednesday 25 February and Leith Depot in Edinburgh on Friday 27 February.
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