A. Savage has released his second solo album on New Music Friday – check it out here.
A. Savage‘s new album Several Songs About Fire is out today.
Reflecting on his leaving New York which was documented on 2017’s solo debut Thawing Dawn, the album was unveiled with lead single Elvis In The Army, on which the Parquet Courts frontman pondered one’s sense of belonging and identity.
“We often describe ourselves in geographic terms,” he’s said. “American, New Yorker — two terms that I’ve used to identify myself that have to do with being from or of a certain place.”
So Elvis In The Army is a bit of an inventory of those labels. They have less to do with geography than we realize. Really we’re just talking about ourselves, then framing certain characteristics geographically. No matter where I live I’ll have an American psyche until the day I die, for better or for worse. I’ll always be of America.
“And I can’t imagine a time where New York doesn’t feel like home. But despite that, I’d rather not be associated with a place, at least for now.”
