{"id":16335,"date":"2021-08-16T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2021-08-16T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:07:35","slug":"joey-cape-a-good-year-to-forget-fat-wreck-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16335","title":{"rendered":"Joey Cape &#8211; &#8216;A Good Year To Forget&#8217; (Fat Wreck Chords)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16336 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/716liNqRkqL._AC_SL1200_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fat Wreck Chords and singer-songwriter\u00a0<strong>Joey Cape<\/strong>, frontman of iconic punk band\u00a0Lagwagon has had a lockdown more eventful than most.\u00a0 \u00a0A reflective album that was written during a year that saw him lose his father, separate from his wife of 20 years, contract COVID, and move back in with his parents as a result of a livelihood lost, &#8216;A Good Year To Forget&#8217; is a warm and beautiful record make no mistake about it. What a challenging 12 months for any human let alone being able to unravel it all inside your head and get it down on tape in songs that make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the collection is &#8216;It Could Be Real,&#8217; a song written from the perspective of a disenchanted single person\u2014a person who has experienced the highs and lows of multiple failed relationships. A song that sets the tone of the record and encapsulates everything that&#8217;s excellent about this record.\u00a0 Cape channels his best Neil Young and Ron Sexsmith and a beautiful yet heartbreaking story unfolds but is intended to be light and tongue-in-cheek.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etNu692xGmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The time\u00a0<strong>Joey Cape<\/strong>\u00a0spent with his parents over the past year didn\u2019t just allow him to reconnect with them; it also afforded him time to write songs. Because recording studios were shutting down everywhere due to COVID,\u00a0<strong>Cape\u00a0<\/strong>got creative and turned the \u201ccabana-type thing\u201d he was living in into a home recording studio. \u201cI just decided that if I was going to make a record like this, I should make it in full isolation,\u201d he says. \u201cI have a Murphy bed, so every morning I\u2019d push up the bed, pull out the studio stuff, have some coffee or tea, get out my little chair and off I went.\u201d Despite\u00a0<strong>Cape\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0isolation while writing &#8216;<em>A Good Year To Forget&#8217;\u00a0 H<\/em>is fans will hear much more than just a voice, guitar and bass on this record. Indeed, he ended up playing a lot of instruments when recording the album, including electric and lap steel guitars, piano, mandolin and drums. A real solo album to be fair.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A Good Year To Forget&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Finds the positive in the negatives to become a record of pure triumphant beauty and that&#8217;s on a serious level.\u00a0 I was interested to hear the record but as the songs were unfolding and I listened to the lyrics and the emotion in the vocals tied into the excellent arrangments I fell in love with what I was hearing and it really did reach out to me.<\/p>\n<p>These 12 songs, especially on the wistful \u201cThe Poetry Of Our Mistakes\u201d and the forlorn-yet-somehow-uplifting \u201cSaturday Night Fever.\u201d Don&#8217;t really do anything other than tell their stories but in such an empathetic way it&#8217;s hard not to get lost in the emotion of the complete record. &#8216;Come Home&#8217;, a song inspired directly by the words his mother had spoken on the phone, is a beautifully melancholic, folky tune<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you think you had a bad pandemic then spare a second for Joey his has been a real shit sandwich but hopefully, this can act as some cathartic experience and he can heal through his songs I know music can soothe the savage beast in us all and this beautiful record can inspire and help heal.\u00a0 Take a trip with Joey Cape it might not be what you expect but these beautiful songs need to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UmmVfh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat Wreck Chords and singer-songwriter\u00a0Joey Cape, frontman of iconic punk band\u00a0Lagwagon has had a lockdown more eventful than most.\u00a0 \u00a0A reflective album that was written during a year that saw him lose his father, separate from his wife of 20 years, contract COVID, and move back in with his parents as a result of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16356,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions\/16356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}