“There's A Lot Still To Say About Essential Forever”, by Essential Forever

“There's A Lot Still To Say About Essential Forever”

by Essential Forever

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lukas This is the perfect album to go on a drive with the windows down to. It carries a fun, summery, chill vibe throughout the entire album while still managing to fit in more emotionally heavy hitting songs like (my two favorite tracks) “All We’ve Gotta Do” and “Shelter”. Such a pretty album, instantly one of my favorites.
Favorite track: All We’ve Gotta Do.

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1.	Hollywood Royalty 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Won’t you come to me lovely, I need a caring someone Along the starry eyed ugly could you ever become Hollywood royalty and will you come to me? Far away in your dream how could you ever be mine? How could you ever be my love… The love of my life Can I rest my head tonight The love of my life Will you let me rest and give sweetness to me? Hollywood Royalty Would I delight all the people idling through the garden daughter of cherry blossoms, sing to me so softly far away land of mercy, longing comes over me As if to end my sleep, searching the night until I find The love of my life Can I rest my head tonight The love of my life Will you let me rest and give sweetness to me? Hollywood Royalty
2.	Fountain of the Earnest Heart 02:24	lyrics	buy track
Can you make it easy on me Please baby, uh huh Will you lead me to the fountain of the earnest heart? All the tough I talked to you Came before I was renewed Baptise me in your lily pond I’ll be the man of the house Can you make it easy baby Can you make it easy baby I’ve done my work
3.	All We’ve Gotta Do 03:32	lyrics	buy track
I hate how we left things feeling unsteady Guess that I was angry, maybe I wasn’t ready All we gotta do tonight Is just get through Yes and seeing eye to eye Is the best thing to do I want to keep what we had and what we become No I wouldn’t blame you if you said you had enough I feel your love All we gotta do tonight Is just get through Yes and seeing eye to eye Is the best thing to do Baby baby stay here with me All we gotta do tonight…
4.	(Skip The Line) Ticket to Love 03:20	lyrics	buy track
Well it’s up to you my darlin If I’m on the line today I’m going back oing to Arizona In the second month of May Any old time you take me there yeah Then I see you you’re on your own again Sorting publications Giving lovers that shrug Yes I see you’re on your own Making this world better A skip the line ticket to love Been stumblin’ on my prospects Please don’t let me lie in wait Yeah I can see that you have patience But Diana knows your fate Waiting in line she knows she knows yeah Yes I see you you’re on your own again Taking the right vitamins Giving lovers your shrug Yes I see you you’re on your own again Making time for no-one A skip the line ticket to love
5.	Carry On Grace 02:33	lyrics	buy track
In the stillness while you’re gone, Seems I’m predisposed to finding busy work Carry on Grace, I want to know I’ll be another boy with a jealous quirk That I know is true, I’ll follow the social cues Do what I ask of you and Carry on Grace Something new to prove each day to someone Weariness does come of desperately Running around your love If you saw me there hometown, spiriting visions away tonight That I know is true, I’ll follow the social cues Do what I ask of you and Carry on Grace
6.	Walk 02:56	lyrics	buy track
Let’s pick back up from where we left it after work I’ll hope I’ve made a change since breakfast time How many tender things have passed me by Before you found something good at my side I’m young and in love But you take my hand so sweetly Where do you get the strength? To walk me through it again Can I give this trouble to you We could rent a church and live inside the roof Do you fancy me your only one How time eases on without no conversation Would you explain away to me Take my mind from this uncertainty Will you walk me through? I’m young and in love But you take my hand so sweetly Where do you get the strength? To walk me through it again
7.	Then I Surrender Willingly 02:58	info	buy track
8.	Shelter 02:12	lyrics	buy track
Shelter, I need shelter I need shelter to call my own Shelter, I need shelter Seems it’s raining and I’m cold and alone I need lifetimes of sweet devotion, You'd find it hard to believe All I've got to offer pennies to drop And wish upon your stream. Shelter oh lord shelter i need shelter New ground to grow Shelter, when I need shelter, you give your love to me And I know I’m home

about

Every record store, vintage shop, and estate sale worth its salt has that one crate of obscure records from the 1960s. Some people dig in those crates for that rare, legendary print; but others, like Chicago songwriter Alex Heaney, seek out two key words: “greatest hits.” And while Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, or Buddy Holly would fit the bill, Heaney is just as happy to pull out an essentials LP by an artist he hasn’t heard of. The next logical step in that endless chase for greatest hits came in the form of Heaney’s new project, Essential Forever. The band’s new album, A Lot Still To Say, spins like a pop opera anthology from an undiscovered AM era crooner dug out of the dustiest crate in the shop.

Through Essential Forever, Heaney explores the sepia-tinted radio pop he’d grown obsessed with, dousing romantic hooks in Phil Spector’s wall of sound. More than idolizing a bygone era or honoring particular production, A Lot Still To Say cleverly tinkers with the trademark emotionality. “I wanted to write an album from the perspective of this forgotten crooner, the most prolific artist that no one has ever heard of,” Heaney says. “But at the same time I wanted to skew the hypermasculinity and the hubris of love songs from that era.”

The album’s opening track and lead single, “Hollywood Royalty”, immediately lays out the album’s DNA. The skyscraping chords, thunderous piano, layered percussion, and tight falsetto harmonies sound pulled from a lost Roy Orbison take. Though written as arch love songs, A Lot Still To Say largely avoids gendered subjects and weaves insecurities and admissions of guilt rather than blame. He’s not the conqueror in “Then I Surrender Willingly”, needs someone to lean on in “Shelter”, while “All We’ve Gotta Do” admits that he wouldn’t be surprised if his love walked away. “I wanted these songs to welcome the perspective of anybody listening who wasn't just a straight male,” Heaney explains. “It feels cathartic to write in the language of love songs, but to expose inherent vulnerabilities and ground it in real thoughtfulness.”

Thanks to a pack of talented collaborators rounding out the composition and producer Kevin Basko, each track on A Lot Still To Say stands on its own as a pop gem, but it’s Heaney’s modernist take and sterling voice that makes Essential Forever’s latest feel like those beloved greatest hits records: “I wanted to write songs that can help people fall in love a hundred times over.”

credits

released April 9, 2021

Permanent member:
Alex Heaney (lead singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist)
Album players:
Kevin Basko (multi-instrumentalist, backing vox)
Rias Reed (multi-instrumentalist, backing vox)
Nick Palladino (multi-instrumentalist, backing vox)
Riley Byrne (multi-instrumentalist, backing vox)
Johnny Costa (multi-instrumentalist, backing vox)
Emily Moales (backing vox)
Adam Miller (trumpets)

Production Credits, Mastering, Producer, Mixing:
Kevin Basko

Engineer: Rias Reed

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