We were really under a time crunch on American Slang, but not then. We talk about it and we all felt the same way. Noisey: What puts this one at the bottom?īrian Fallon: Actually, after all this time and all that’s been said about the record, the only thing that puts it at the bottom is that I feel that some of the songs were possibly not finished, that they could’ve used a little more marinating in a practice room. “Because all this could have not happened, easily.” “The main thing now is wondering: How did we get here?” he says of Gaslight’s career. And while he was willing to play our ranking game with the Gaslight Anthem’s records, he says that, with a few years’ distance behind him, he’s more prone to looking back on the band’s output as a whole, and the unexpected international success it brought the Garden State natives. “We were able to be real with ourselves and say, ‘Does anyone have anything to offer that needs to be said, in addition to what we’ve already said?’ And everyone went, nah.”įallon has since moved on to a solo career that’s been doing quite well, with two well-received records already under his belt. That’s not to say we’d never do shows ever again, but we don’t have any plans for a record,” says Fallon. And after that, well, it sounds like that might be it for a while. The record is also getting a deluxe reissue. The band is returning briefly on June 2, though, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of The ’59 Sound at Governors Ball, where they’ll play the entire album.
They got the Bruce Springsteen Seal of Approval when The Boss joined them on stage at Glastonbury.So here are five things most people know about The Gaslight Anthem:
In other words, a band’s identity can be broken down to the bare essentials of collective knowledge about them.
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