Love Axe Shares "Blue Skies Above" Ahead LP Optimism Paranoia Desperation Abolition

"Before Nixon and Reagan broke unions and pushed a conservative agenda that’s now in full bloom, the rallying cries against social injustice were sung by folk singers; Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and more were pro-union, anti-war, anti-fascist, and pro-civil rights. Their weapons of choice were often an acoustic guitar, 3 chords, and the truth.

It’s in this intersection of quiet and rage that we also find producer and genre-melting songwriter Christopher Hatfield on the fifth Love Axe album, Optimism Paranoia Desperation Abolition.

Kai ka sani da Love Axe (kowane lokaci wani band, amma mafi girma Hatfield tare da abokan ciniki tun 2015), OPDA zai iya rage ka a matsayin wani style left turn; ba ne indie rock da kuma power pop ilimin da yaushe na farko release kamar Phenomenomenons (2011) da South Dakota (2015). The funky, Prince-meets-Weezer (wuri, amma ya yi aiki!) workouts na THE FOOD (2021) da kuma da futuristic synthes da ke ƙirƙirƙirar Linear Valley (2022) suna da yafi, kuma. A ƙaunar su ne wani abu mai ban sha'awa: wani softly strummed nylon-string guitar da kuma daidaita adornments (clarinet, piano, pedal karfe, wasu bas da kuma a nan da kuma a

"Na rubuta wannan rubutu kamar yadda za a gyara da kuma rage duk da abin da kammala abin da na san game da abin da lalle ne da wannan duniya yana iya a lokacin da farko Trump gabatarwa. Kuma na iya kawai ya yi wannan saboda shi ya shigar da - na san cewa kana so ka iya gyara jima'i da jima'i ba tare da manufa na lokaci ko jima'i tsawon lokaci," Hatifield ya ce.

But it’s 2025, and here we are, once again, in the clutches of fascist billionaires, hellbent on revenge and destroying the planet. Hatifeld continues, “So this now feels, very sadly, much more relevant to our world than it did when I finished it.”

Yana ya ce, amma, cewa matsala za su iya taimakawa mai kyau art - kuma shi ne matsakaici na OPDA. A cikin nuni songs, Hatfield ya tafi mu a kan wani daidaita, tsawon tafiya ta hanyar daidaitacce tsari, ci gaba da sauke yadda za mu samu a nan a farko da kuma yadda za mu yi mafi kyau da shi yayin da mun duba dukkan (duba da ƙaunar da matasa da kewaye a kan kafofin mu, kamar wani m gaban a kan reg). OPDA ne mai saukewa da aka samar a cikin hudu sassa: har ila yau, shi ya yi amfani da lantarki daga ƙaunarka zuwa ƙaunarka zuwa ƙaunarka, duk da aka kafa a kan soundtrack a cikin cewa fans na Willham Oldham, Wil