Dan Andriano has announced the debut album, Dear Darkness, from his new project Dan Andriano & The Bygones, out February 11 via Epitaph Records.
Andriano has also released the title track from the album, following previously released singles “Sea Level” and “The Excess”.
Dear Darkness features Bay Area musicians Randy and Dylan Moore and Nick Kenrick, and was self-produced by Andriano, who is using the project to push the boundaries of what his sound can be.
Andriano first began work on what would become Dear Darkness during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, writing demos and raiding his archives of unfinished ideas, doing so more out of a deep-seated need to create than with any true end project in mind. Having spent so much of his life touring and making music, the time off forced by the pandemic was foreign to Andriano, who, at moments, struggled with how to use this newfound freedom, but also found it to be fruitful for his creative process.
Andriano says:
“I spent that whole time trying to get better at music. I learned a lot about music. I sat in my garage every day and just played guitar and, you know, tinkered with basses. Which is something I try to do anyway, but I did it with a little more of an active interest in education, like time I feel like I lost learning or trying to get better at music while I was just on tour doing the same thing.
Originally, Andriano had been hopeful to wrap the session with an EP, but finishing the first week with so much material to work with — and feeling such a natural rapport with the Moore brothers — the impromptu session led to a full-length album.
He says:
“It did feel sort of magical, just being that everything fell into place in such a crazy time when nothing was falling into place. That was something I haven’t felt in a long time”.
Check out “Dear Darkness” below and pre-order/save the album here.
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