Little Disaster

Little Disaster

Accomplished singer-songwriter Andrew McMahon continues his solo work for his project Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness with the introspective album ’Tilt At The Wind No More’, teaming up with trusted collaborators and producers Tommy English (K.Flay, X Ambassadors) & Jeremy Hatcher (Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes) on the album. The 11-song record represents a reflection of everything Andrew has learned during his music career and throughout his life so far. Though it is steeped in nostalgia and optimism for the future, above all else, Andrew wanted to make ‘Tilt At The Wind No More’ sound "transportive." “I wanted people to be able to put on their headphones and hear a universe in these songs,” he says. “I think we pushed hard to make this music really adventurous. We took the singer-songwriter medium and said, ‘Let's dig deep and make it sound really fun and out there and wrap people up in these arrangements. It's one of the things I'm most proud of: the way it sounds.” On “Little Disaster,” an ethereal alt-pop anthem, Andrew sings over an acoustic guitar that builds around samples & his signature piano style. Common to the themes on the album, this track also draws on his past and features the line that inspired the album title “I was tilting at the wind / I was running in circles.” In a moment he was transported back to an earlier era, Andrew reflects that “The words for this song were born of a traffic jam that stranded me in front of an old apartment that I lived in with the Jack’s Mannequin band in 2005. I was flooded with all these memories of my 20s, terrorizing the neighborhood bars and grinding in the studio and rehearsal space to launch that project. That time was so frenetic and wonderful, but I was a total mess and eventually ended up fighting for my life after being diagnosed with Leukemia. In the years following my recovery from cancer, I had a lot of trouble reconciling what I lost, the fearlessness and freedom from the reminders of my own mortality. I didn’t handle it well, and it led to a lot of self-sabotage and additional trauma. The beauty of this moment in my life is how much of it I’ve lived on the other side of those hard years.”

Little Disaster

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Accomplished singer-songwriter Andrew McMahon continues his solo work for his project Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness with the introspective album ’Tilt At The Wind No More’, teaming up with trusted collaborators and producers Tommy English (K.Flay, X Ambassadors) & Jeremy Hatcher (Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes) on the album. The 11-song record represents a reflection of everything Andrew has learned during his music career and throughout his life so far. Though it is steeped in nostalgia and optimism for the future, above all else, Andrew wanted to make ‘Tilt At The Wind No More’ sound "transportive." “I wanted people to be able to put on their headphones and hear a universe in these songs,” he says. “I think we pushed hard to make this music really adventurous. We took the singer-songwriter medium and said, ‘Let's dig deep and make it sound really fun and out there and wrap people up in these arrangements. It's one of the things I'm most proud of: the way it sounds.” On “Little Disaster,” an ethereal alt-pop anthem, Andrew sings over an acoustic guitar that builds around samples & his signature piano style. Common to the themes on the album, this track also draws on his past and features the line that inspired the album title “I was tilting at the wind / I was running in circles.” In a moment he was transported back to an earlier era, Andrew reflects that “The words for this song were born of a traffic jam that stranded me in front of an old apartment that I lived in with the Jack’s Mannequin band in 2005. I was flooded with all these memories of my 20s, terrorizing the neighborhood bars and grinding in the studio and rehearsal space to launch that project. That time was so frenetic and wonderful, but I was a total mess and eventually ended up fighting for my life after being diagnosed with Leukemia. In the years following my recovery from cancer, I had a lot of trouble reconciling what I lost, the fearlessness and freedom from the reminders of my own mortality. I didn’t handle it well, and it led to a lot of self-sabotage and additional trauma. The beauty of this moment in my life is how much of it I’ve lived on the other side of those hard years.”

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