ASIWYFA (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
And So I Watch You From Afar are now streaming their new album ‘Heirs‘ in full on The Fader at this link.
The band release their new album next week, officially welcoming their touring guitarist Niall Kennedy on board full time. “We started making the album while touring in 2013,” Rory Friers has said.
“We would be recording demos in our hotel rooms, backstage and we would even hire out rehearsal rooms during days off. It’s called ‘Heirs’ as a tribute to a lot of new people who came into all our lives during the writing and recording of the album – lots of nephews and Johnny had a daughter, Eisa.”
It’s the Belfast band’s first studio long player since 2013’s ‘All Hail Bright Futures‘ – Live4ever’s #1 essential album of that year. “It’s never an easy task to take the unbridled energy of an impressive live show and properly replicate it in a studio setting,” our review begins.
“There are hordes of road-dogged and battle-tested bands that flourish under the one-night-after-another pressure cooker of intensive touring, yet still struggle to find their comfort zone when the crowds are gone and the tape is rolling.”