The Wonder Years Band Release New Single Album, OLD FRIENDS LIKE LOST TEETH

Sep 23, 2022 musiccorners

The Wonder Years Band – Ahead of the release of this Band’s long-awaited new album, The Hum Goes On Forever, the Pennsylvania pop-punk unit has just released their new amazing single. Old Friends Like Lost Teeth was chosen as the new single, officially released on August 31, 2022.

Vocalist Dan Campbell said of the meaning behind the song: “As much as I try not to think about the loss, I can’t stop myself from thinking about it, writing about it, and singing it.”

“This is a song for another friend who died too soon and about how I wish I could keep myself from opening the stitches, about how I knew it would be painful to play live, and how powerless I was to do anything else,” he continued.

The Hum Goes On Forever album will be released on September 23, 2022, through Hopeless Records. While the single Old Friends Like Lost Teeth also has an official music video that has been released on YouTube. Old Friends Like Lost Teeth music video by Benjamin Lieber as creative director and editor.

The song has a heart-wrenching push and pulls, as vocalist Dan Campbell reflects on another friend leaving too soon.

Meanwhile, The Wonder Years Band highly anticipated seventh studio album, The Hum Goes On Forever, finds the band facing an onslaught of things beyond their control. The content is a scenario that is further compounded by the fact that it is also the first album they have made since Dan Campbell officially became a father.

Between the logistics of a pre-vaccine pandemic, anxiety, postpartum depression, legacy trauma, and a band seeking their deeper existential purpose. The Hum Goes On Forever album is undoubtedly the most challenging record The Wonder Years have ever set. And, while it may take them a long time to get there, the music the band produces speaks for itself.

Named for a poem in the booklet for their Sister Cities (2018) album, The Hum Goes On Forever is a self-referential masterpiece that finds The Wonder Years at their absolute and decisive peak. This is a representation that reveals how the six members of this band grew together as musicians. They know when to hold back and when to explode, filling the space and void needed to create a record that reflects the heart-wrenching urgency at its core.

The Wonder Years Band’s New Album Tracklist

Doors I Painted Shut
Wyatt’s Song (Your Name)
Oldest Daughter
Cardinals II
The Paris of Nowhere
Summer Clothes
Lost in the Lights
Songs About Death
Low Tide
Laura & the Beehive
Old Friends Like Lost Teeth
You’re the Reason I Don’t Want the World to End

To prevent forgetting, You should also know that The Wonder Years Band has released several singles throughout 2022. All of those singles lead to the Wonder Years new album which will be released this September.

One of the singles from The Wonder Years, which was released at the end of last July, was titled Low Tide. This song is a self-reflection taking stock of fear and anxiety in the passing months of the pandemic. The band’s new hit will appear on their much-anticipated seventh studio record, The Hum Goes On Forever.

Lead singer Dan Campbell described the band’s new song as his “pandemic depression anthem”. Written in snippets over several months, Low Tide’s single captures a fraction of the many questions and fears that have crossed their minds—and possibly several other artists and creatives—over the past few years.

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“It’s looking for a semblance of normalcy through a small, newly formed ritual. Not sure if I’ll ever be able to do what I love again, or whether live music will return. It decides to give up and then decides not to give up and then decides to give up again in alternating intervals,” said Dan Campbell.

“It was watching an old movie and subconsciously thinking, ‘Oh my God, where’s your mask?’ when people are in public because deep anxiety is now within me that may never really go away. You know, all the normal stuff.”

Several other singles were also released by The Wonder Years, Band such as Summer Clothes in May, Oldest Daughter in April, as well as the single for the Christmas song, Threadbare, which was released in November 2021—although it was not included in the tracklist of their new album.

With the release of The Hum Goes On Forever album this September, The Wonder Years Band has scored seven full-length albums following six others, starting with getting Stoked on It! (2007), The Upsides (2010), Suburbia I’ve Given You All, and Now I’m Nothing (2011), The Greatest Generation (2013), No Closer to Heaven (2015), and Sister Cities (2018).