The self-indulgence of hindsight will come later and it will be a pox on your house, rest-assured. My advice: don't spend any time over-thinking them while they're happening. "So, we've already dipped our toes in the morose, black muck of existential pessimism, so why don't we rap a bit about what is best in life instead? This song is about being reckless, carefree, intoxicated, and in love.
That is, until you get out of cell service and spend a few days talking with your best friend about literally everything and literally nothing. Noise loud enough, by the way, to drown out our connections to each other, to the natural world, and to ourselves. I didn't really attain "enlightenment," but I did come to understand that the fixation on the self that our inexplicable connection with technology has saddled us with creates an awful lot of noise. "The only moments of real quietude I had during the beginning of The Pandemic were in The Rocky Mountains on any number or combination of entheogenic substances. Welcome to The Best of All Possible Worlds." But! Could it be my doom and gloom outlook on the present and future of this planet, our species, and the obscure hollow of the universe we occupy is a theatrical contrivance-or am I really onto something here? I'll spend the rest of this record, and probably my life, trying to determine the answer to that question. Seems like the amount of deception we accept willingly and unconditionally is really the meterstick for how successfully we can navigate this world as it continues circling the drain. In many ways, this is the simplified version of the demeanor I cannot help but lug around as an over-thinking modern human.
Yes, folks, this is a planet where love sweeps you off your feet and leaves you a bloated cadaver with a belly-full of microplastics being picked apart by seagulls on an Amazon garbage scow. if it isn't a world where technology has permanently branded us with cognizance of the aggregate despair and hopelessness of our existence and of every sentient thing in it and is, subsequently, being leveraged by monocled captains of industry to pray on the rudderlessness and desperation we accrue by simply feeling to sell us shit we don't need-or even really want-and estrange you from honest, un-monetizable, human connection. Elway's The Best of All Possible Worlds is now available on Red Scare Industries. It has been lightly edited for general clarity. Tim was kind enough to provide us with a thorough track-by-track breakdown for the entirety of The Best of All Possible Worlds. Ever the optimists! We got a chance to chat with Elway's own frontman and guitarist Tim Browne about their latest effort. All bangers here!Įven though it's been lean times for Indie Rock/Punk tours during The Pandemic, Elway has managed to play some recent shows with The Lawrence Arms, Hot Water Music, and The Menzingers and we expect the good times to keep comin' in 2022. As in, are we naïve for being optimistic?" Hoo-wee, sounds like Red Scare's gonna get rich off this thing! The Indie Punk quartet recorded a buncha songs out in their home state of Colorado and, then, they painstakingly whittled it down to the best 11 tracks for The Best of All Possible Worlds.
Elway's Tim Browne, Joe Henderer, William Orender & Brian Van Proyen, also, tell us that the prevailing theme of this collection of songs is, ". Elway L-R: William Orender, Tim Browne, Joe Henderer & Brian Van Proyen (CREDIT: Tom May)Įlway have stuck with Red Scare Industries for a few years and, now, we've all been rewarded with their best album yet or, at least, that's what they're saying.
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