Lonely The Courageous have simply launched their model new album ‘What We Do To Really feel’, and it’s up there with their most formidable and atmospherically beautiful items of labor so far.

Following on from 2021’s ‘The Hope Record’, a report that served as a bridge between chapters for the band, it feels just like the quintet have discovered their true footing as soon as extra. That comes by pushing all the pieces you beforehand thought you knew about Lonely The Courageous into locations you by no means imagined them to tread. Incorporating spacey synths, dramatic strings and loads of effervescent stress into their sprawling but intimate playbook, the result’s extraordinary.

An album that focuses on the issues that make us glisten to the heat that this life gives, it’s a reminder to do what makes you are feeling unimaginable, maintain on to those that carry out the perfect in you and never waste a second on one thing that doesn’t remind you the way particular day by day may be.

To delve deeper into the interior workings of how such an inspirational report got here to be, we had a bit chat with vocalist Jack Bennett and guitarist Mark Trotter…

ROCK SOUND: What does it imply to have an album like ‘What We Do To Really feel’ out on the planet now?

MARK TROTTER: “Nicely, it’s a launch. It’s a launch within the sense that it’s out now. We’ve pulled the covers off, and we are able to get on with it. That’s the primary factor. We will get on the market now, play these songs to individuals and see what they suppose. I’ve mentioned this earlier than that we don’t write for anybody else however us, however it’s nonetheless thrilling to see all people’s response to what we now have made. There’s an entire new wave of feelings that comes with that. Apprehension, nerves, pleasure, all the pieces. It’s thrilling, and it feels good.”

JACK BENNETT: “It’s humorous as a result of I noticed anyone had shared one of many songs from the album they usually had been in Jakarta. It’s bizarre as a result of I seen they did it when it wasn’t even out on our aspect of the world but. That’s fairly wonderful, although, isn’t it? We all know that completely different individuals will take various things from completely different songs, and I really feel just like the report is a little bit of a grower. Subsequently, I hope meaning it can get up longer. All of the albums I like from any time have at all times been growers. I’ve by no means appreciated my favorite albums from the beginning. The way in which the band writes stuff and the way we put it collectively makes it unattainable for me to know what’s going to resonate.”

MARK: “Yeah, I’m completely with Jack there. You’ll be able to’t work out what persons are going to resonate with merely since you’re not them. All you are able to do is put it on the market. The principle factor for me is that somebody is taking one thing from that, and that’s the strongest factor about music. You’ll be able to actually be wherever on the planet, and anyone might resonate with what you’re doing. No matter language or house, it’s nonetheless this particular factor. By way of that music and thru that feeling, you’re by no means actually alone. Another person is experiencing one thing that you’ve got, and that’s extremely particular.”

RS: In some ways, what you might have created with this report is extra of an environment. One thing to get misplaced inside. It’s wonderful so that you can have carried out that regardless of by no means really being within the studio as an entire band creating this. It should be fairly a aid and validating to know that from a special manner of doing issues, you had been capable of get such a outcome…

MARK: “A extremely good buddy of mine gave the best praise on the album after they mentioned they consider it’s our most mature report. That’s not within the sense of us being outdated. It’s extra within the sense that it’s not designed simply to tear your face off. That’s not who we’re as individuals or what we aspire to take heed to. This album is a mirrored image on who we’re and who we wish to be. My favorite information are those that also, after ten or 20 years, you continue to discover issues and bits that you just by no means seen earlier than. If we are able to do this, then we will likely be actually completely satisfied.”

JACK: “I actually like the most recent Sam Fender report, however on the time when it was launched, I assumed it was good. Nevertheless, the extra I listened to it, the extra I realised simply how significantly better it was than I first thought. There’s masses extra stuff occurring than you first suppose, within the manufacturing, the lyrics, and all the pieces. I’ll take heed to that now and know these songs is not going to be dated. To have any songs on this album not date in the identical manner in a world the place songs get performed after which moved on from could be wonderful. I really feel that is an album in a non-album-based world.”

RS: Everyone within the band has been doing their very own factor over the previous couple of years. The band hasn’t at all times been entrance and centre, from different careers to beginning households to constructing companies. All of the completely different experiences and emotions conjured from these different issues have allowed your time with the band to be much more potent and private…

MARK: “The previous few years have intensified this, however all the principles are out the window at this level. That’s at all times been our manner. It’s all bollocks, in spite of everything; it is best to at all times be taking part in and doing no matter feels proper. There are occasions on this report the place I felt psychological for enjoying one thing, however that’s the purpose. That’s what my physique is telling me to do and what my ear desires to listen to, in order that’s what I’m going to do. There was no aware effort to say what we might and couldn’t do. Fuck that, do no matter feels proper. You find yourself with one thing that’s trustworthy and truthful.”

JACK: “I’ve discovered that there are people who find themselves nonetheless discovering out what I sound like as a human and what my voice is ready to do. That feels fairly mad to me. Somebody wrote a remark questioning if one thing I had sung had been carried out by anyone else, so it wasn’t even a destructive factor. It reveals me that in my strategy to this report, I haven’t gone, ‘Alright, that is my stage. These are huge notes, and I’m simply going to go for that. There are bits the place there are elements that aren’t onerous to sing in any respect and others which can be actually onerous to sing. It simply reveals that everyone was ready to carry all the pieces to the desk. This mad mash of issues that shouldn’t conventionally work, however ultimately, it’s the issues that make me wish to take heed to this.”

RS: What are the issues that stick out for you from the moments you spent within the studio bringing these concepts to life? Contemplating to your elements, Mark, it was simply you and Jack within the studio over a weekend attempting to get all the pieces down while you possibly can. What was that have like?

MARK: “Recording, and even simply selecting up a guitar, is my completely satisfied place. That’s the place I’m virtually myself, and I keep in mind that time recording was like that. It was nice enjoyable. Simply me and Jack laughing our arses off and making silly sounds within the studio and having a superb time doing it. Shifting forwards, I don’t care, or I by no means actually have cared, what individuals consider my guitar taking part in or how I strategy music. I’ve no different manner of doing it, and I received’t bend to anyone else’s manner of doing issues. Extra so, this report provided the readability of not having to do something for anyone else. A brand new imaginative and prescient of how issues needs to be or the way you count on issues to be. I don’t prescribe to that by way of music, and creating this time round allowed that feeling to be cemented. If it feels proper, do it, and that can by no means change. Although the factor is, we now have been collectively for thus lengthy, we don’t second guess one another. We all know the place to depart the areas for issues to develop and exist. I see it and may visualise it. Having the ability to do this while having fun with making it occur with my mates is what that is all about.”

RS: That’s finally what this report represents. ‘What We Do To Really feel’ is concerning the issues that we do to make our time right here what it’s. You all discovered your personal manner in direction of that as a title and a sentiment, however now you’re ready the place you’ll be able to see different individuals discover themselves in what meaning. What has it been like watching that come to fruition?

JACK: “To be trustworthy, we’re nonetheless ready for the total influence of that. The songs we put out within the lead-up had been extra various, however they had been simpler to take heed to and digest than among the different songs on right here. Some are extra atmospheric than others, the place they’re extra emotional. No matter response we get will likely be from the individuals who sit there and take heed to it from entrance to again. One music solely provides you one factor, while the entire piece provides you all the pieces. All I can communicate on is pals who’ve come again to me after listening to it and mentioned, ‘Wow, I wasn’t anticipating this’, which is often the important thing factor I resonate with on my favorite albums. Once we labored with the string quartet, I informed them to play more durable. They mentioned it will sound a bit screechy, however I requested them to do it once more and go as mad as doable. They sat there and mentioned, ‘We don’t usually do that’, however it was one thing made so naturally and created one thing completely completely different.”

RS: The enjoyment of the sudden is what takes priority right here. It’s why you wish to come again and why you wish to carry on making music. Preserving individuals on their toes and pushing the boundaries of what Lonely The Courageous may be. That’s what that is all about, and that ought to by no means change…

MARK: “The entire level of creating music within the first place is that launch—the constructing of group. I’m extremely comfy with my contribution to our venture, and I really feel very fortunate and happy that we get to maintain on doing it. Previously, being in a band used to really feel like the ground tiles falling away beneath you and also you having to carry on. album gross sales and numbers and all of that stuff. However the ground doesn’t fall away for me anymore, as a result of all these issues really feel irrelevant to how we strategy music. My enjoyment of music comes from spending time with my pals, being inventive and doing what feels proper. How fortunate am I to try this? Then individuals coming and having fun with that with me is completely wonderful. I wish to keep on like that and revel in it as a result of we didn’t get pleasure from it for a extremely very long time. To be ready the place we are able to get pleasure from it’s actually particular.”

‘What We Do To Really feel’ is out now.