William Ryan Key Band • Page 18

It will. I’m working with Equal Vision Records which I’m so excited about. Full ep will release in February 2022. Also, I’m officially making a full length with them as well.

 

I love getting news straight from the artist. Appreciate the update WRK. Adding to my list releases to buy in February with the EP and and I’m really happy to hear a full length will be coming eventually as well.

Such nice to hear as I near the end of my Yellowcard/WRK discography run.

 

Really cool news. Stoked to support the next chapter and beyond. Cheers

 

It will be available everywhere in February.

 

Here’s the link to listen, watch, and pre order! Thanks for the support. Everything Except Desire

 

New song sounds great

 

Best shot at the lyrics, I have a few questionable words in here (italics) but think this is fairly accurate. I really love the second verse in this one.

Where you stay
Out on the channel sea
White washed skies
Are gonna set you free
Shadows blue
Above a black outline
Tell some truth
Beyond the words you find

Did you ever have a real reflection
in the water underneath this bridge?
Used to think you had a fair complexion
Couldn't hurt too big
Everything is heaving up these lessons
I never learned before
What I wonder when you find your next one
Maybe more is more

I don't mind
We were almost there
That first time
When you almost cared
We quit this
I was calling home
Telling them
You were all I know

Long lost days, a rainy winter gone
I can't say Im ever right or wrong
Who's that there, another hidden face
I still care, why do I work this way

I will elevate the uninvited
So that I can feel a goddamn thing
Trouble is there is a broken person
You couldn't fix in me
So I'll never need to measure this up
To anyone I find
We were just another empty vessel
In the black of night

I don't mind
We were almost there
That first time
When you almost cared
We quit this
I was calling home
Telling them
You were all I know

 

Is this a more electronic version of this song? I feel like I heard a sample of this before.

 

cool song

 

Ryan was on the All Punked Up podcast recently and I found it to be an excellent listen:

64. William Ryan Key - The All Punked Up Podcast

 

Ryan sounds so pumped about where he’s headed with his music. Good for him. In saying that, I’ll check out the EP, but I don’t think I see myself sitting down and listening to scores or trippy edm music. And maybe I’m not the fan he’s after. There something about vocals as an instrument and a method of storytelling that I love. I was wondering if he’d continue to lean in on doing more acoustic EP’s eventually again since that can serve his preferred vocal stylings while protecting his voice from health issues. Sounds like it’s all edm and scoring along with podcasting.

I really would love to hear the episode where Ryan dives into the good stuff and bad stuff during Yellowcard. He dances around it out of respect and time, but he seems fully comfortable to address it in terms of learning and growing as a person. I’d love to hear that interview. He really is a good guest on these podcasts.

 

Interview: William Ryan Key

@paythetab interview is now up

 

Most interviews around press time sound similar. Glad he asked about NFG to kind differentiate.

 

Really, really loving the new EP. Gonna get a lot of rotation from me on drives and late nights.

 

Very cool to hear!

 

Just put this on and it’s very chill.

 

new EP is pretty awesome, a swing at a whole new genre and it hits.

 

Union Chapel is absolutely stunning.

 

“A grim hotel, with empty rooms to spare”
“I crank the window closed, and you’re not here”

the way the “you’re not here” lyric is so perfectly direct amidst an airy somber song is really great songwriting.

 

The new EP is fantastic! Still trying to decide on a favorite track.

I can't wait to download the .mp3 version (I think one came with the CD I purchased, which is in the mail still), but so far no email. Did anyone else receive one? (Offline listening is the bulk of my listening nowadays.)

 

Pre orders are delayed due to production like so much other stuff in the world right now. They will get to you though I promise. Glad you are enjoying the record!

 

Oh, I assumed the .mp3 version would be sent via email - makes sense! Thank you!

 

This album with Airpod Pros and spatial audio on = incredible.