The Falcon (members of The Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio, The Loved Ones) Releasing New Album In March
Music News | Jan 22nd, 2016
A punk rock supergroup of sorts called The Falcon will be releasing an album called Gather Up The Chaps on March 18th 2016 via Red Scare Industries. The band consists of Brendan Kelly (The Lawrence Arms), Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones), and Neil Hennessy (The Lawrence Arms). The band’s song “Hasselhoff Cheeseburger” will be apart of New Noise Magazine’s Flexi Collection as well. A tour is being planned to promote the new release so stay tune for that.
“I don’t know why it turned out like this, but sex, drugs, rock and roll, and death are powerful topics for a reason. I didn’t invent or pioneer this kind of album by any stretch of imagination, but it’s what came out of me. I feel like the record has a large dose of self-loathing in it, but also a sense of reveling in bad decisions and gleeful destruction to self and others.”
The Falcon has quite the pedigree, which includes the aforementioned Kelly from The Lawrence Arms, Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones), and Neil Hennessy (The Lawrence Arms). The supergroup spent part of the winter cooped up in Chicago’s Atlas Studios with producer Dan Tinkler recoding their second full-length album. This 12-song collection is vulgar, dark, risqué, and hilarious. From self-loathing (“War of Colossus”), to being tired of masturbation and confused about sex (“The Skeleton Dance”), to masks and the people that wear them (“The Fighter. The Rube. The Asshole.”), to creating your own personal hell on earth (“You Dumb Dildos”), to drug-fueled isolation (“Dead Rose”), Gather Up T he Chaps covers not only the birds and the bees but also the ugly underbelly of carnal desires and vices.
Originally forming in 2004 with members of The Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio, and Rise Against, The Falcon came together essentially as an extra creative outlet for the members. Their 5-song debut EP God Don’t Make No Trash –or- Up Your Ass With Broken Glass sold several thousand copies prompting them to write and record Red Scare’s best-selling release 2006’s Unicornography. They went on hiatus for a few years because all of their main projects were extremely active, only allowing them to resurface to play special shows in Chicago with bands such as Naked Raygun and The Bouncing Souls. In 2014, The Falcon emerged from its slumber to crank out a new song for the Red Scare 10-Year Anniversary compilation, which made them eager to return to the recording studio.
The Falcon is Brendan Kelly (vocals, guitar), Dan Andriano (bass, vocals), Dave Hause (guitar, vocals), and Neil Hennessy (drums, vocals). Their brand spanking new album Gather Up The Chaps will be released on March 18th via Red Scare. A tour is currently being routed, so stay tuned for dates!
