We gave it a day, just because sharing it on April 1 felt wrong -- also, we were busy -- but Dillinger Four just shared the new song "Don't Happy, Be Worry," which features no Bobby McFerrin-style a capella but does have a bunch of "whoa-ohs."
Says Erik Funk via instagram:
So it's been something like 18 years since we released any new music, and the inescapable questions are why? And...why now?
The honest truth? I have no fucking idea. We've been active that whole time playing shows, and we never really stopped writing music; we just sort of stopped finishing music. We've never tried to do this band as some kind of a career, and so we've never felt the pressure that comes from that. We do feel extremely grateful that, for whatever reasons, people all over the world are still willing to come check us out when we're playing and hoping to hear us do something new. If we've ever felt anything resembling pressure to do the band, it's for that reason alone. The balance of the shit we've been doing in our lives, parenting, work, hobbies, etc., has just seemed to fall into place in the past couple years to where now there's some room to get back to finishing some music. It feels good. It takes more time than it used to still. We can't just drop everything for two weeks and make a whole album. Slowly but surely, though, we've now got a stack of some new stuff, and it's time to start getting it out there. But as with all things Dillinger Four throughout our history, we reserve the right to do it how, when, and wherever we want.
The band released CIVIL WAR in 2008. They are currently on tour in Japan.
photo: live at FEST 23
