We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Coast To Coast’s new album The World Doesn’t Work (listen below), which is scheduled to be officially released on October 26, 2018 through Fox Records. You can purchase the album here: Digital | Physical
Coast To Coast frontman Kieran Hyland commented on the album:
I came up with the title once we had finished writing all the songs, I felt it perfectly summed up the running feeling of the record. The statement can be applied to each song on the record and is a common theme throughout. The world doesn’t work is the result of me coming to terms with the emotions and feelings I’ve experienced in the last couple of years. I’ve learnt a lot about how I, myself and my mind work and also how the world doesn’t work.
TRACK BY TRACK
1. Tremble
Tremble is a song about my childhood and going back to live with my dad in the house we were brought up. I struggled with moving back there because so much has changed. Seeing how certain family members health Jd deteriorated and how the estate wasn͛t the same place I remember it being when I was young hit me hard. Musically, Zak brought the base to this one and we built upon it from there.
2. Good & Grim
We wrote this around the same time as Be Kind, it actually uses the same chords as a song we had originally written for our last EP ͚The Length Of A Smile͛ that didn’t make it onto that EP. I͛m glad it didn’t though because Good & Grim is a much better track than that was. It ties in with the common theme of the EP. It͛s about seeing both the positive and negative aspects of life. The choruses refer to feelings of being selfish, I was busy focusing on my own problems and totally forgot to check up on my family and close ones, something that I still beat myself up over.
3. The Sun Is Dim
This song is defiantly our favorite song from this EP. Alex came up with the main riff and some other little parts around the beginning of when we started writing but it wasn’t till much later that we decided to work on it more and once we did everything just flowed. It͛s a song that felt like it wrote it͛s self, It was the most enjoyable song we wrote for sure. We feel it is the song that defines this EP.
4. Be Kind
Be Kind was actually the first song we wrote for the EP, it͛s one of the songs that underwent the lest change from when we first wrote it to recording it. With this one, Alex came up with the base and we built upon it all together later at a writing session. Shooting the video for this one was a lot of fun, shooting on multiple locations and with a lot of different characters was great. We did make the mistake of giving the people in the party location real beer though and so after every take, someone needed to use the toilet, go for a cigarette or even just find wholesale cbd flower. It was hectic but hilarious.
5. Boxing
Boxing is another track about my relationship with my father. The subtle references such as ͚going 12 rounds with myself͛ are special to me as I grew up around my dad and his love for boxing. I wanted to write something really personal but also something that was relatable. One of my favorite lyrics on the whole record is from the chorus of this track ͚I keep myself to myself, then complain that I͛m alone, in a world doesn’t work͛ really sums up everything I wanted this record to represent. Again Zak came up with the bulk of this track, I think it͛s the track that went through the most changes, at one point the bridge went to a big ambient instrumental section. The problem though, was that it felt like such a big departure from the rest of the song that it felt out of place. So we kept trying different things and after multiple versions of this section, we finally nailed it.
6. Cold Buzz
Cold buzz is about my relationship with my family again.͚Pour your worry onto me, I won͛t say anything͛ is a lyric I’m really proud of. I’ve always wanted to support my loved ones as much as I can, and as much as I try I always am left feeling I haven’t done quite enough. The second half of this track is something we were all really proud of and I think it͛s the perfect end to the record. It was something we knew we wanted to do on a track on the EP, it shifts the feel of the song completely.
Tour Dates:
22 October – The Old England, Bristol
23 October – Sound Basement, Liverpool
24 October – Satans Hollow, Manchester
25 October – Key Club, Leeds
26 October – Atomic, Wrexham
27 October – Asylum 2, Birmingham
28 October – The Old Blue Last, London
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