DANIEL ROMANO TO RELEASE FINALLY FREE THIS FRIDAY VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS
WATCH AND SHARE THE VIDEO FOR “RHYTHMIC BLOOD” HERE
FINALLY FREE CANADIAN TOUR BEGINS THIS FRIDAY
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Daniel Romano is set to release Finally Free this Friday via You’ve Changed Records. The 9-song set is Romano’s eighth long playing album in the last eight years. Recording, producing, designing his album art, and directing accompanying videos, Romano has had what understatedly would be considered a prolific output of entrancing, poignant and creative work in this span of time. Finally Free follows his acclaimed 2017 album Modern Pressure, which Noisey praised, “It’s sonically spiritual to 2016’s Mosey, and shows Romano continuing to sharpen his signature sound, combining elements of retro-tinged rock ‘n’ roll, country, and psychedelia to create a vibrant tapestry of tunes that feel just as at home in 2017 as they might in 1965” while an unnamed subjugate exclaimed, “No matter what he does, everything he puts out is better than anything else being put out by anyone else.”
Finally Free was recorded on a 4-Track Tascam cassette recorder with Romano making constant stream of consciousness commitments to everything that was recorded in order to bounce them down to stereo and free up tracks for additional elements. “On every record I make strict limitations for myself, “Romano says. “This was by far the most extreme, but I also believe it has rendered the most honest and liberating results.” Overall, Finally Free harks back to Romano’s early studies and obsessions in traditional folk music while simultaneously conveying a surprisingly modern and engaging aesthetic. Dense with wisdom and blissfully encouraging in these end times.
Today, PopMatters premiered the video for the new song “Rhythmic Blood,” stating “...he illuminates the inherent dissonance associated with self-criticism while realizing the hate is simply blather and bunk.”
Last week, Exclaim! premiered the video for “The Long Mirror Of Time.” In chatting with them, Romano said that the song celebrates the unconformities of the natural and supernatural worlds. "The tangible world can often suppress our inherent instincts to shift our shape and transcend our surroundings,” he stated. “The long mirror of time is in-fact not a mirror but a passage of prisms. This song is for those who do not see themselves in these monotonous rays of light and instead remain unseen or further yet, push on into a realm imperceptible to those trapped in the mirror. The long mirror of time reveals the prism faces, but not mine."
Noisey previously shared the video for the song “All The Reaching Trims.” Of Finally Free, they state, “While it sounds like shards of every Romano incarnation that came before it, it’s also deconstructed, unshackled by any sort of stringent boundaries of form.” Continuing, “Finally Free is consistently dreamy, shaded with vibes that touch on the mystical and evoke the glory of the natural world. But it’s also punctuated with explosive moments of joy, like the climatic blast of its lead single ‘Empty Husk,’ or the vocal bursts that emerge all throughout ‘Have You Arrival,’ as Romano delivers what sounds like a gentle cosmic sermon over fingerpicked guitar.”
Flood Magazine chatted with Romano about album’s lead off track, “Empty Husk,” saying “‘Empty Husk’ and the entirety of Finally Free is a lucid plea. It is a final apology and an attempt at the unwarranted reconciliation between us and everything in our path (including ourselves). These are my most proud prose and this is my most accomplished and honest musical output. It is dense and challenging and sometimes very difficult. Thank you. To whatever put this all together through me. I was alongside you in a blaze of creative wonder and I will never forget it.”
WATCH AND SHARE “THE LONG MIRROR OF TIME” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “ALL THE REACHING TRIMS” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “EMPTY HUSK” HERE
Daniel Romano has also announced additional tour dates in support of Finally Free, beginning this Friday in Toronto. Daniel Romano’s Finally Free will be available on compact disc, across digital retailers, standard black vinyl, as well as limited edition translucent red & green split colored vinyl available at Independent Retailers. Finally Free is available for pre-order now via You’ve Changed Records. All tour dates are listed below.
FINALLY FREE TRACKLIST
1. Empty Husk
2. All The Reaching Trims
3. The Long Mirror Of Time
4. Celestial Manis
5. Between The Blades of Grass
6. Rhythmic Blood
7. Have You Arrival
8. Gleaming Sects of Aniram
9. There Is Beauty In The Vibrant Form
DANIEL ROMANO ON TOUR
Nov 30 - Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace #
Dec 1 - Ottawa, ON 2 Club #
Dec 2 - Quebec City, QC L’Anti #
Dec 3 - Montreal, QC Bar Le Riz #
Dec 6 - Waterloo, ON Starlight #
Dec 7 - London, ON Rum Runners #
Dec 8 - St. Catharines, ON Warehouse #
Jan 24 - Brooklyn, NY The Knitting Factory *
Jan 25 - Philadelphia, PA Boot and Saddle *
Jan 26 - Washington, DC DC9 *
Jan 27 - Richmond, VA The Camel *
Jan 29 - Asheville, NC Mothlight *
Jan 30 - Athens, GA Georgia Theatre *
Jan 31 - Atlanta, GA The Earl *
Feb 1 - Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Feb 25 - Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
Feb 26 - Victoria, BC Lucky Bar
Feb 28 - Calgary, AB Commonwealth
Mar 1 - Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
Mar 2 - Saskatoon, SK Capital Music Club
Mar 3 - Regina, SK The Exchange
Mar 4 - Winnipeg, MB The Good Will
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* with T. Hardy Morris
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