Though they may no longer be signed to Pure Noise Records, as confirmed during the interview, they have no signs of drifting back into hiatus. And it was during that first leg that I got to sit down with Thomas to talk about No Really, I’m Fine and what their future as a band holds. Last month The Spill Canvas performed the first leg of the anniversary tour, and just announced a second leg to take place in December of this year. It was like, well what else can we tour, another Conduit tour? But this came around this year and it was awesome last time we did it, so why not?” As Thomas explains, “We did some runs just last year going into this new year to support Conduit, the new record. The band toured a bit in support of the record, and then when this year rolled around they decided to once again revisit their old friend, No Really, I’m Fine. Then finally, at long last, the band convened to record and release their first full-length studio album, Conduit, in 2021 via Pure Noise Records. What followed was some new music in the form of singles and an EP, a tour where fans got to request the songs to be played by The Spill Canvas, and an anniversary tour for perhaps the band’s most popular, No Really, I’m Fine, in 2017 to celebrate it’s tenth anniversary. We had a couple members that left, had a hiatus, but we used that as a barometer of ‘Well maybe would want to see more of us?’,” he finalizes.Īs fate would have it, fans did want more - and that’s what they got. “Just prior to that, we had opened up for Motion City Soundtrack, which was like our first official tour back. Playing again, touring, really came from doing an anniversary tour - the ten year anniversary of our second album,” Thomas told me last month, referring to their 2015 ten year anniversary tour for One Fell Swoop.
“I don’t know if you want to call it a comeback or whatever of us as a band. Even if it took a few years and an opening slot for another band that was about to enter hiatus: Motion City Soundtrack. Even though they went on a brief hiatus around 2013 or so - which lead to vocalist/guitarist Nick Thomas taking some time to do some solo work, The Spill Canvas came back, almost better than ever. Through it all, The Spill Canvas have come out on the other side. From some radio success to signing to a major label, to having a song set to appear in a major superhero film - to having it stripped away. Over the course of their 20+ years, they’ve seen a little bit of everything. Even typing that sentence doesn’t feel or sound right. Watch “I’m Fine” below and pre-order Never Going Home here.Somehow, someway, The Spill Canvas have been a band for over twenty years. Even with all of the ostensible anguish that drives the song’s narrative - and the wistful nostalgia that fuels the clip - as soon as it’s over, the only thing that seems to make sense is to go straight back to the beginning and experience every inch of “I’m Fine” all over again. The song itself is an eloquently composed slice of muted basement pop, anchored by a frighteningly relatable sense of human longing.įrom the warm synth beds to the imagery placement, there’s not a false note or move to be found anywhere in “I’m Fine”, which has an emotional resonance that’s impossible to ignore. In that approach, “I’m Fine” gets the benefit of having an appreciative sense of history, which, in turn, winds up enlivening the entire affair. Making the deal even sweeter, the project’s offered up a gorgeous lyric clip to accompany the release of “I’m Fine” that was meticulously crafted using cut-outs of vintage issues of Life magazine.
For example: Hazel English may not currently be the biggest name in music but the project’s most recent single, “I’m Fine”, ranks among the best understated pop songs of the year. We’re living in an astonishing time for music and while not all of it’s visible, it’s still easily accessible. In that baker’s dozen of releases, there’s a demonstration of the impressive range of quality material that this month alone has been producing.
IM FINE LYRICS FULL
Since Monday, outstanding full streams from Space Mountain, The Veils, Vomitface, Lifer, Midnight Faces, Zula, Worse, The Wounded Kings, Psychic Heat, Massage, Saint Clementine, and Twist have all surfaced.
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