DANIEL ROMANO IS SET TO RELEASE FINALLY FREE ON NOVEMBER 30 VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS
WATCH AND SHARE “EMPTY HUSK” HERE
TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 30
PRE-ORDER FINALLY FREE HERE
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Daniel Romano is set to release Finally Free on November 30 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 their 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 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.”
Today, Romano is sharing the video for the album’s lead off track, “Empty Husk”. Speaking to Flood Magazine, Romano said, “‘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 “EMPTY HUSK” HERE
The new LP follows his acclaimed 2017 album Modern Pressure, which received outstandingly high acclaim and praise from every notable publication out there and was acknowledged by most reputable “for-profit-prize-corporations” as well as a plethora of voguish “music-as-competitive-sport” year-end lists. Despite being the bronze placeholder in most of these dogfights, he is most often noted as a person of astounding influence on all of his musically economic successors.
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.
Romano has also announced his initial tour dates in support of Finally Free, which begin on November 30 in Toronto, full tour dates can be found below. Romano’s Finally Free will be available on compact disc, across digital retailers, standard black vinyl, and limited edition translucent red and green split coloured vinyl available at Independent Retailers. The LP is available for pre-order now via You’ve Changed Records.
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
# with FRIGS
* with T. Hardy Morris
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