[Cover photo credit to Stephen Albanese]
Columbus, Ohio-born Indie Rock band Red Wanting Blue have released the title track to their thirteenth studio album, “Light It Up”. The self-Produced album is set for release on June 7th, 2024 via Blue Élan Records.
Years of non-stop touring have helped solidify the relationships within the band and this album hopes to capture their camaraderie and musical evolution.
“Light It Up,” is the most personal song on the album which is also why it became the title of the album. Written in 2020, during the global lockdown, lead singer Scott Terry faced a choice regarding reaching for the light or giving into the dark.
He shares:
Stuck in my Brooklyn apartment, I was feeling conflicted… lost without the forward movement of touring while also being grateful for the time with my family. I often found myself in the unfinished, cavernous basement of my converted factory building, spending strange hours singing to the brick walls, wrestling with the thoughts in my head. Most of New York City moved out, so do I move? Will music return in the same way, do I change careers?
The loudest voice in my head said to stay the course… you’re a singer and a songwriter, so write your way out of this. “’Light it Up’ was born out of a dark, empty industrial basement as a beacon of hope, light and direction. The song serves as a lighthouse for those lost in the dark. It quickly became the keystone of our new album. Light is something that we usually find, but it’s easy to forget that it’s something you can also make… so, if things are feeling dark and you can’t find that light, do what we did…and make it for yourself.
Recorded in the quintet’s native Ohio and Produced for the first time by the band itself, the collection is “a larger-than-life ode to hope and perseverance, a celebration of the fire we carry within and the commitment that keeps us going even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.”
On the album, the songs are all interconnected, “woven together through intros and outros and interludes.”
