New Song + Official Music Video for "You Must Change Your Life"

Today we share the title track from our upcoming new album You Must Change Your Life to be released May 5 on Nine Mile Records. Watch the new official music video here & pre-order the record.

The line “You must change your life” is that of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. His exhortation has always moved me quite powerfully. In the poem, “Archaic Torso of Apollo", a headless sculpture “sees” inside the poet and stirs him so deeply that he cannot go on living like he was before.

While the phrase captures the change that can come through witnessing art, I realized I needed to bring this lofty idea down to earth through a specific character at a specific moment in time, and so I created asympathetic fool in a mid-life crisis. I believe many of us face a version of the same plight at the heart of the song. We populate our lives with these hip, modern amenities (frilly Western shirts, macrobiotic diets, pour over coffee, Epsom salt baths), but once these accoutrements lose their shine, it’s hard to know what to do when stuck in the rat race of paying our bills while the ice caps melt and the tiki torches of the alt-right keep us up at night.

In answer to this quandary, I wanted this song to be an anthemic call for self-reexamination and taking charge of one’s life because, despite it all, I believe, “It’s never too late.”