Life Is Crazy, by Sean Nicholas Savage

Life Is Crazy

by Sean Nicholas Savage

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Paraselene Cortez The joy of listening to the musical compositions that live within this album.. oh what a joy. My favorite Sean album to date. Your talent excites me like no other, thank you for sharing your art always. Favorite track: Vanishing.

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1.	Years From Tonight 03:39	buy track
2.	Nothing As It Seems 03:56	buy track
3.	I Believe In Everything 04:46	buy track
4.	A Moment 03:57	buy track
5.	Life Is Crazy 04:30	buy track
6.	Thrill Me 03:53	buy track
7.	Mysteries 03:24	buy track
8.	Save My Life 04:52	buy track
9.	Vanishing 04:12	buy track
10.	In The Silence Of The Crowd 03:49	buy track

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Life Is Crazy, the accurately titled new record from Sean Nicholas Savage, is unlike anything we’ve heard from the cult balladeer. No drums or bass on the album, the accompaniment consists strictly of pure piano and lush strings, leaving Savage’s songwriting bare to the listener like never before.

“for a fresh direction here, i've attempted to reduce the focus to just songwriting and singing. particularly contemplative ballads, which through the years remain closest to my heart. i've aimed for a vocal spirit and energy that closely resembles my live performance, which is an integral part of my identity as an artist not always represented in my recorded work.”

Life Is Crazy is a bold and attuned record. Conceived in his transition to theatre, it marks the dawn of a new era for SNS, and a long-awaiting return to the full-length LP format. This will be Savage’s first album release since completing a revered master-cassette trilogy – Magnificent Fist (2016), Yummycoma (2017), and Screamo (2018).

Lyrically, Savage grapples with his signature themes of perception, identity, and the unknown, among others. While still abstract, the metaphors and subject matter are effortless and more inviting than ever before. New to Life Is Crazy is a narrative tone removed from time.

“there is this thing on the album where i was trying to write to the future to an audience that doesn't exist. you know, we've talked many times about how an audience is exponential, as we see what is niche or outsider today is often more popular tomorrow. there's a lot of that in 'years from tonight' which really sums up how we never know those future versions of ourselves. Also the album closer 'in the silence of the crowd' depicts just how invisible that can feel. That resonates in a few of the other songs too so i thought it was a cool thing to touch on since it feels sometimes like the only hopeful glimmer these days.”

Savage began the new decade in Montreal, with a twelve-show run of his highly anticipated musical ‘Please Thrill Me’. This marked an evolution towards stage drama, starring Savage himself, Jane Penny (of TOPS), Roland Pemberton (Cadence Weapon), Adam Byczkowski (Better Person) and Lulu Hughes – who lends her operatic vocals to two songs on Life Is Crazy. Highlight numbers “Thrill Me” and “I Believe In Everything”, taken from the musical with performances wilder and more intimate than even the most outstanding night in the theatre –

“having so much context: settings, characters etc. it's like performing songs in 3d. this album is heavily influenced by musical theatre in that way, and by opera as well. I've been consumed with that for the last two years. mostly however, it is an attempt to record something somewhat like my live shows can be in energy and drama, and so it is still somehow perhaps closer to home than ever before.”

Life Is Crazy’s collaborators are decidedly new as well. The piano is interpreted and performed by renowned virtuoso Marcin Masecki, winner of the 2005 International Jazz Piano Competition in Moscow, while the strings are arranged and performed by adored Grammy-winning composer Owen Pallett.

Life Is Crazy is lush with beautifully ambiguous melodies, reflections and new perceptions, all in a world of their own. The album is a masterpiece at a time of transition, in both the world and the oeuvre, from a unique songwriter and performer of the truest quality.

“That’s what makes me wanna sing, something i can never be, and now… nothing is the way it seems”, Savage beams.

credits

released October 2, 2020

all songs written and sung by Sean Nicholas Savage
piano performed by Marcin Masecki
strings arranged and performed by Owen Pallett
operatic vocals on ‘Nothing As It Seems’ and ‘Save My Life’ by Lulu Hughes (courtesy of Sphere Musique)
recorded between Trixx Studios in Berlin, Redroom Studio in Pisa, and Casa Discola in Segorbe
mastered with LANDR
original photographs by Tess Roby
layout by Jeremy Dabrowski
calligraphy by Teresa Dorey
thanks to Alex Cowan for mix assistance
special thanks to Sebastian Cowan, Molly Nilsson, Hubert Tanguay-Labrosse and Aldous RH for your faith, support and inspiration

“You’ve gotta be a little crazy to be sane in this world”
- Georgia Jean Savage

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Sean Nicholas Savage

shows

May 4

Music Hall of Williamsburg

Brooklyn, NY
May 5

Songbyrd

Washington, DC

discography

Trilogy

Apr 2024
Say No

Oct 2023
Shadow

Sep 2023
It's Happening

Apr 2023

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