BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:711@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T230000 DTSTAMP:20250202T014516Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/the-wonder-years-and-the-li ttle-kruta-string-ensemble/ SUMMARY:The Wonder Years and the Little Kruta String Ensemble DESCRIPTION:For a number of years\, this would have been an almost-blank pa ge. Back in the mid-2010s\, a few years\na@er The Wonder Years had first f ormed in Lansdale\, PA\, just north of Philadelphia\, the band would be\na sked to provide a bio for events they were playing. All Dan Campbell would write was ‘The Wonder\nYears is a band’. That was it. They’d then r eceive the programs for whatever fesMval or event it was for\nand laugh. M ost bands\, the frontman remembers\, would write a “full page thing abou t how their last\nrecord charted and ours would just be a blank page with those six words at the top.” A lot of Mme has\npassed since then\, and a lot has changed\, although also not that much\, at the same Mme. If The W onder\nYears – completed by guitarists MaT Brasch and Casey Cavaliere\, drummer Mike Kennedy\, bassist Josh\nMarMn and keyboardist/mulM-instrument alist Nick Steinborn – could get away with a six-word bio\, they\nprobab ly would.\nAs it happens\, when it comes to The Hum Goes On Forever\, cont ext is important\, which is why you’re\nreading these words. The most im portant reason is that this is the first record the band has made since\nC ampbell became a father. And so\, when he sings its very first words – ‘I don’t want to die’ – on its very\nfirst song\, “Doors I Paint ed Shut”\, they shimmer with a liTle extra poignancy and potency. Becaus e as\nsomeone who has sung candidly about how despondent he’s felt at Mm es\, thoughts of unexistence are\nno longer possible. It doesn’t mean th ey stop\, but Campbell can no longer succumb to the abject malaise\nthey i nduce.\n“You’ve got to pull it together\,” he says\, “because your kids are counMng on you. These things that feel\nhopeless – these massi ve cultural and societal\, full-populace problems like climate change and school\nshooMngs\, all the things that you’re afraid of for your childre n – well\, they only get fixed if you fix them. ‘I\ndon’t want to di e – because I’ve got to protect you.’ It would be very easy to give in to the depression\nand just kind of lay there\, but my kids are counMng on me\, so I have to try to pull myself together and do\nthe work. ”\nT hat\, then\, is the crux of this record: his survival is more important th an it ever was before. As Campbell\nphrases it\, “How do you take care o f someone else that needs you when there are days that you barely\nwant to exist?” Now that he’s a father\, the answer is a lot simpler than it used to be. Quite simply\, he\ndoesn’t have a choice. Rather\, he has to press on against the noise that’s been inside his brain for as long\nas he can remember. That’s what the ‘hum’ of this album’s Mtle is. T aken from a poem he wrote for Sister\nCi:es\, it is\, he says\, a represen taMon of the gloom he tends to carry with him.\n“Even when it’s not co nstantly in my face\,” he admits\, “there’s always a low hum of sadn ess\, a low\nrumbling of ennui. So The Hum Goes On Forever is the understa nding that I’m always going to have it\, it’s\nalways going to be ther e\, it’s always been there for literal generaMons of my family and it’ s important\nthat I accept that and live and work through it.”\nThe Hum Goes On Forever\, then\, is the sound of The Wonder Years navigaMng those dark\, cold waters\,\nbringing that ever-present pulse in the back of Camp bell’s mind to vivid life\, while also pushing it as far\nback into his skull as it will go. It’s the kind of effect that’s only achievable th rough true collaboraMon and\nunderstanding\, something that defines how th e band has operated from its incepMon. The six-piece\nwrote the bulk of th ese songs in a farmhouse in the middle of Pennsylvania in the winter of 20 21.This\nwas before vaccines were widely available\, so they all quaranMne d for 14 days first. Then\, a@er gecng\nvaccinated\, they wrote together a gain in March\, April and May\, before tracking songs in June. IniMally\,\ nthe idea was to just make an EP with Will Yip\, but it instead became the ir seventh album\, finished with\nSteve EveTs\, a@er the band decided the songs would be under-served on an EP. The result is a record\n\nthat captu res the taught\, fraught uncertainty of the period in which they were wriT en\, but also travels\nback in Mme and memory to uncover and dwell on and inhabit le@over remnants of the past. It serves\,\ntoo\, as a revealing re presentaMon of how the six lives that consMtute The Wonder Years interact with\neach other. That happens both inside and outside of the band\, obvio usly\, but in terms of the former\,\nthey’ve all grown together immensel y as musicians. It means the band knows when to be restrained and\nwhen to explode\, filling in space and empMness as needed to create a record that mirrors\, sonically\, the\nheart-torn urgency at its core\, the way these six individuals interact with each other\, each an essenMal\ncomponent of a greater whole - as well as the next evoluMon of a band that’s never s topped growing\,\nnever stopped striving\, never stopped searching for the truth and the heart of this dumb thing we call\nlife.\nIt would be easy t o talk about how specific songs do that\, but that would also kind of defe at the point of\nthis record. Because this is a complete journey and shoul d be taken in as such. It begins in August and\nends in June and traverses years and decades\, as well as the constant cycle of sadness and healing within\nthem. Except it never quite gets there. The hum is never totally s haken off.\n“Because the tagline for The Upsides was ‘I’m not sad an ymore’\,” Campbell explains\, “I think people were\nlike\, ‘This i s the guy who used to be depressed.’ But obviously that never goes away. It’s a constant\, and\nyou basically have to co-exist with your sadness . It won’t go away\, but that doesn’t mean that people\ndon’t rely o n you and that you can stop. As we’ve conMnued to make records\, that’ s manifested itself in\ndifferent ways\, but I don’t think ever as clear ly as it has on this record. This one is more clearly about me\nstruggling and floundering and drowning at points. In fact\, I think it’s maybe ev en the most revealing in a\nlot of ways. There’s things I’m singing ab out on this record that I wouldn’t have had the guts to confront\nin mys elf prior to it – like being this open about how low I had goTen\, starM ng in late 2019 and then\ntumbling into a pandemic\, and just thinking and thinking and thinking....”\nThere’s a lot of thinking on this record. A lot of thoughts. But the main one\, the important one\, is that\nvery f irst line of the first song: I don’t want to die. It’s something he re peats and reiterates on final track\n“You’re The Reason I Don’t Want The World To End”\, which addresses the change in Campbell’s purpose\ nsince becoming a dad. That’s obvious enough from the Mtle alone\, but w ith the final line – inspired by\ngardening with his first son during th e pandemic – the message becomes truly clear: ‘Put the work in\,\nplan t a garden\, try to stay afloat.’ It’s a reminder to himself\, but it ’s also for anyone who listens\, anyone\nwho needs it\, everyone who’s grown up with the band and has sought\, and conMnues to seek\, refuge in\ ntheir songs. Because\, yes\, The Wonder Years is a band. But it’s also much\, much more than that. 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