The Wonder Years Announce New Album

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The Wonder Years will release The Hum Goes on Forever on September 2nd. Pre-orders are up.

Track Listing

1. Doors I Painted Shut
2. Wyatt’s Song (Your Name)
3. Oldest Daughter
4. Cardinals II
5. The Paris of Nowhere
6. Summer Clothes
7. Lost in the Lights
8. Songs About Death
9. Low Tide
10. Laura & the Beehive
11. Old Friends Like Lost Teeth
12. You’re the Reason I Don’t Want the World to End

Press Release

"I don't want to die, at least not without you."
 
Those are the words that open up The Wonder Years' new album, The Hum Goes On Forever. It marks the next evolution of a band that’s never stopped growing, never stopped striving, never stopped searching for the truth and the heart of this dumb thing we call life.   

On every level, their seventh studio album finds The Wonder Years facing an onslaught of things outside of one's control. It's a scenario that's only further exasperated by the fact that it's also the first album they've made since vocalist Dan Campbell became a father. So when he sings those first lines, they shimmer with a little extra poignancy and potency. Between pre-vaccine pandemic logistics, anxiety, postpartum depression, inherited trauma, and a band searching for their deeper existential purpose, The Hum Goes On Forever was undoubtedly the most challenging record The Wonder Years has ever made.

Named for a poem in the booklet for their 2018 album Sister Cities, The Hum Goes On Forever is a self-referencing masterpiece, and it finds The Wonder Years at their absolute, unequivocal peak. It's a revealing representation of how the six members have all grown together as musicians; they know when to be restrained and when to explode, filling in space and emptiness as needed to create a record that mirrors the heart-torn urgency at its core.

New single "Wyatt's Song (Your Name)" is also out today––a song Campbell wrote for his oldest son, Wyatt. "It’s about the polarizing forces of love and anxiety that come with being a new parent—simultaneously being so overjoyed that they’re here, about the miraculous nature of their existence, but afraid of all the ways you could fail them," Dan explains. "It’s about raising children in a world that feels like it’s actively ending and how to make them feel safe and cared for despite that. It tries to breathe in the small, beautiful moments and exhale all of the invasive thoughts of despair."

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best of the bunch so far

 

I haven’t been able to get into this band much since greatest generation but Wyatt’s song is very solid (sounds a bit like an older song than many of their more recent ones)

 

Cardinals II. That is all.

 

I think the record's out 9/23?

 

Boy, I hope they nail it.

 

Excited for this album.

 

Having fond memories of when Local Man premiered on AP and this shit crashed faster than the stock market rn.

 

Press release says 2nd:



¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

RIYL: The Wonder Years

 

Must be a typo in the press release (oof), because all the other marketing material does say September 23:

, https://loneliestplaceonearth.com/c...n-forever-deluxe-vinyl?variant=42899700318458, etc.

 

3/3 on singles for this album so far. Could not get into Sister Cities, but these tracks have all been fantastic and pulled me right back in. I have a feeling I'm really going to enjoy this album. Great album art, too

 

Was here to say this! Can’t wait to hear this one.

 

Great title, great art, great singles so far, and I'm loving all the references to past songs. It really seems like a return to form after Sister Cities (which I didn't dislike, but it was definitely a different direction for them).

 

So excited for this, but it is definitely coming out on the 23rd.

 

The new sound they went for with the last album really didn't do anything for me, but all of the singles from this album have been killing it. This might be my favorite. Great hook.

 

Damn! Thats already right around the corner.

 

Didn’t matter to me either way, but for some reason, I was anticipating Threadbare to show up here.

Stoked on the new songs. Seeing them in September so will be cool to hear some new stuff.

 

I'm also in the sister cities didn't quite do it for me camp. The greatest generation is peak wonder years for me. Cardinals was part great part just ok... I look forward to hearing this one in full.

 

It's gooood much better than SC

 

Love this new song, feels like a return to form.

 

Passes the “windows down” test with flying fucking colors.

 

Do you mean the album “No Closer to Heaven” or the song “Cardinals”?

 

Whoops yes, I meant the album No Closer to Heaven... But Brothers & Cardinals are some of my favorites from it.