David Wax Museum has a new record coming out Friday, May 5, You Must Change Your Life.
The album ties together elements from the band’s efforts over the years, presenting a sonic range from tender to jubilant feel-good to the alluring.
In catching up with David Wax and Suz Slezak, we find out the album was written pre-pandemic, and is eerily relevant to everything the world has experienced over these past years.
“These songs were written before the pandemic and … then the world changed before our eyes,” Wax said. “And so we had to kind of hold it close to the chest for a while. It's interesting then how that title and the kind of fanatic elements of the record have evolved and changed personally for us as the pandemic unfolded and … so it's just like, that meaning has so many layers we kind of keep peeling back.”
Listen or watch the full conversation to hear their memories of performing at the KAXE Mississippi Riverfest seven years ago (they remember the puppets!), and of course, why you should support independent public radio.
“These songs were written before the pandemic and … then the world changed before our eyes."David Wax
“It's been such an amazing symbiotic partnership as independent musicians to be able to meet people like you all over the country, and it matters so much to the shows,” Slezak said.
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