Listen to USAquarium's 'Lamentations' a full day before its release.
BJ Barham, the group's founder, frontman and mainstay, spotted the verse while he and his wife were staying at an Airbnb during a solo tour in January 2019."That verse was up there on the wall and I saw the word 'lamentation' in it," Barham tells."I was raised in a very indoctrinated family, Southern Baptist. My dad was a deacon.
The first song Barham wrote for the New West set, due Friday and premiering in full below, was"Me + Mine ," a slow-burning seven-minute screed about political divisions and the plight of the middle class that stretches back at least four decades. It gave Barham a sense of what he wanted to do, and not do, with the rest of the album.
Barham and the current incarnation of American Aquarium -- which has seen almost 40 members during its 15 years -- dresses those heavyweight topics up with muscular, rocking energy and"big, singalong rock songs.
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