[Cover photo credit to Steve Levy]

Long Beach, NY-based band Family Dinner have released their debut album, God Looks Out For Fools, on Other People Records. The twelve tracks on the record cover a range of emotions and feature lyrics on “love, loss, death, empowerment, and mischief.” The album was recorded over a year at Barbershop Studios in NJ with Brett Romnes and Vinnie Caruana (I Am The Avalanche) helming Production.

On the writing and recording process with the band, Vinnie Caruana shares:

Working with Family Dinner over the course of a year made me feel like I was in the band, and that was fantastic feeling. This is a band of best friends who push each other creatively, as hard as they make each other laugh.

The trust they put in Brett and myself was extremely liberating. Every morning, we’d wake up with a new lease on life and a challenge to make this song better than the last.

As the band combine their Alternative, Indie and Punk Rock roots, they create a “distinct beach party vibe.”

The band shares:

We definitely draw lyrical inspiration from growing up on the beach, although I try not to let it completely dominate all our songs. But you can definitely tell I love referencing the ocean beginning with our earliest songs. We all live within 2 miles of each other, so being physically close to each other and being able to write whenever we get an idea is extremely beneficial, bouncing ideas off each other constantly during the writing process. We also live in a party beach town that tends to also have a dark side to it. I think listeners will hear exactly that.

Over the past few years, Family Dinner has shared the stage with acts including The Lemonheads, Grouplove, Bloc Party, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Fiddlehead, Oso Oso, Head Automatica, Drug Church and more. They will head out on tour this October supporting Friday Pilots Club and Capital Soirée.

Tour Dates:

9/6 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool (Record Release) w/ Latewaves + Somerset Thrower

w/ Friday Pilots Club + Capital Soirée

10/8 – Washington D.C. @ Songbyrd

10/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry

10/11 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

10/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Made

10/13 – Newburgh, NY @ Balmville Grange*

10/17 – Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s

10/18 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement

10/19 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hoosier Dome

10/20 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

10/22 – Milwaukee, WI @ X Ray Arcade*

10/23 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

10/25 – Chicago, IL @ Metro

*Family Dinner only