WORRIERS

We're All In This Together

INTERVIEW WITH VOCALIST AND GUITARIST LAUREN DENITZIO BY BEN SAILER H ow do you plan for the future when it feels like the world is coming to an end? cords, they invite listeners to explore our collective sense of existential dread together and just maybe see ities, whether they manifest themselves as unrealistic socio-economic expectations, pressure from toxic on winning capitalism; super heteronormative, monogamous relationships; or having kids; or even living in some light through the darkness. social norms, or otherwise struggling one place for a long time.” It’s a harrowing question that’s to find your place in a world that growing more practical and less While You or Someone You Know was doesn’t seem to have room for you. In that spirit, there’s very much a hypothetical by the day. If you’re written within the context of strug“we’re all in this together” message wrestling with this particular contragling to exist on a planet seemingly “I try to get the point across that the being delivered here. In order to diction of modern life, though, Woron the verge of collapse, it was also way that we were told things were capture an inclusive vibe and drive riers’ primary songwriter Lauren written to be relatable. Rather than going to turn out might not be what that point home with big rock ’n’ Denitzio wants you to know you’re dealing with the technical machinaactually happens, but that doesn't roll hooks, Worriers worked with not alone. On You or Someone You tions of social, political, and envinecessarily mean that it's bad,” producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Know, the band’s third full-length ronmental degradation, it explores Denitzio explains. “There are ways to Kurt Vile, Hop Along). Agnello had due out March 6, 2020, on 6131 Rehow it feels to exist with those realexist in the world that aren't reliant the band record live, giving the al

“BUT, IT'S SUNNY ALL THE TIME. IT'S GORGEOUS, AND MY KIND OF SONGWRITING STRATEGY, OR THE WAY THAT I END UP WRITING SONGS A LOT OF TIMES IS, IT SOUNDS HAPPIER AND MORE UPBEAT, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY ABOUT PRETTY DIFFICULT OR DARK TOPICS.”

bum a warm and loud feel that suits its welcoming, life-affirming spirit.

“He gave us the exact sort of collaborative feedback that that I wanted when thinking about working with a producer for this record,” says Denitzio.

The end product might sound surprisingly upbeat for an album that deals with dark subject matter, but then again, pushing through painful experiences with powerful, punk Denitzio recently relocated to Los you might have in the U.S., you can melodies has always been Worriers’ Angeles from Philadelphia, and totally find it here,” Denitzio laughs. calling card. Accessibility almost they couldn’t have asked for a “But, it's sunny all the time. It's gorfeels part and parcel of the idea of more fitting city to provide the geous, and my kind of songwriting being relatable—if it’s easy to get backdrop for writing the new restrategy, or the way that I end up into, then it’s easier to get the mescord. As they explain, it’s a place writing songs a lot of times is, it sage. New guitarist and longtime that’s both beautiful and yet strugsounds happier and more upbeat, friend Frank Piegaro’s playing is a gling, and it’s hard not to feel that but it’s actually about pretty diffinatural fit for the band’s signature the connection between the album cult or dark topics. I feel like there's lead hooks, tying together a sound and their surroundings is at least a this weird connection between that that’s familiar yet bigger, louder, little poetic. vibe and what L.A. is actually like. and more polished. I feel like those two things match “Any sort of apocalyptic feeling that together really well.” ��