Scott McCloud has announced details of his debut solo album, Make It To Forever, which is set for release on January 30 via God Unknown Records. Last Friday, McCloud shared video for lead single, Come Round, which you can watch / listen to below.
Per the press release notes, speaking ahead of the release of Make It To Forever, McCloud, also the leader of Girls Against Boys, Soulside, Paramount Styles and a member of the supergroup, AGRIO, says:
“In a way, all relationships are simply conversations. Some are brief flashes, sparks, which may extinguish as quickly as they began. Others last longer or pause for years – only to pick up again where they left off. Some maybe never end,” says McCloud.
“Years ago our band Girls Against Boys had one of those – once in a lifetime dream-like shows in Athens, Greece which for me epitomised a moment in time. Later, I decided to go back and make a record there – in this place which holds an almost mythological meaning to me. To record music in a city which is more or less a dream is affecting. One is out of place – a visitor – time traveller. Visiting scenes. Alienating and yet comforting.”
Now based in Vienna, Austria, McCloud offers insight into the songs on Make It To Forever, which was recorded by Dimitris Dimitriades at Zero Gravity studios in Athens.
“These songs are about memories – romances – ideas – which remain alive and ever changing. The reality of experience itself blurred by time. Music is of course also a conversation – between riffs, motifs – questions and answers. And more questions. Jokes, language, flirtations. Atmosphere. Ultimately, the longest conversation we may ever have is with ourselves. Sitting with a notebook, watching the street life – mopeds [and] graffiti. The memories we carry become treasures – worlds to revisit which are still alive. And like cities and songs they don’t stop living. The biggest part of who we are is perhaps what we remember.”
Make It To Forever track listing:
- Make It To Forever
- Down Through The Stars
- Moonlight Stagedive
- Abandoned In Flames
- Come Around
- (I Got) Devotion
- Spaceship
- Skin Of My Teeth
- Hold Me Tight
- Somewhereness
- Staring At Yourself
McCloud has also announced two live dates in Glasgow in support of the album, the first on Wednesday February 25 at Glasgow’s The Old Hairdressers followed by a show at Edinburgh’s Leith Depot on Friday February 27.
Make It To Forever is out on January 30 via God Unknown Records. Pre-order from Bandcamp.
