{"product_id":"atlas-genius-end-of-the-tunnel-opaque-white-lp","title":"Atlas Genius - End Of The Tunnel [Opaque White LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor seasoned Australian alternative stalwarts Atlas Genius, their third album – and first in nine\u003cbr\u003eyears – End of the Tunnel on the Orchard comes after a trying time that included leaving Warner\u003cbr\u003eRecords and then their adopted base of Los Angeles for home just before the pandemic shut\u003cbr\u003edown the world. Whether that’s a light or an oncoming train in their path, the band’s lead\u003cbr\u003evocalist\/guitarist\/writer and founding member Keith Jeffery is looking ahead, not over his\u003cbr\u003eshoulder, on 11 songs which reflect that turmoil and growth, both personal and universal, over\u003cbr\u003ethe past several years.\u003cbr\u003e“We’re happy enough just to get this album out, above everything else,” admits Keith, with the\u003cbr\u003eband in “musical purgatory” due to another aborted label deal. “We have no expectations this\u003cbr\u003etime.”\u003cbr\u003eThe previously released “Elegant Strangers” is a melodic ode to the drug-fueled L.A. faux\u003cbr\u003eschmooze culture, “dressed for the morning sun\/Mirrors and razors,” already charting at\u003cbr\u003eSiriusXM’s Alt Nation. The opening disco-inflected track, “Falling So Hard,” offers a longing\u003cbr\u003esong for a lover “oceans apart.” It’s a theme explored as well on “Nobody Loves Like You,” with\u003cbr\u003eKeith’s falsetto and funky guitar solo underlining a tale of missing someone “half the world\u003cbr\u003eaway,” a dance-rock track that combines the club floor and the furthest reaches of the arena. The\u003cbr\u003eepic orchestral intro to the geo-political tract “Don’t Let Love be a Stranger,” “Can’t Be Alone\u003cbr\u003eTonight” and “On a Wave,” inspired by Keith’s passion for surfing, sport an anthemic melodic\u003cbr\u003edrive with whisper-to-a-scream dynamics.\u003cbr\u003e“It’s not really about the water, though I used to love to surf,” says Keith about “On a Wave,”\u003cbr\u003e“It’s like riding that emotional roller coaster, trying to maintain your balance despite all of life’s\u003cbr\u003eups and downs.”\u003cbr\u003e“Romans” examines a dysfunctional relationship Jeffery experienced while in L.A. “We were\u003cbr\u003eseemingly under control, like Romans, but we were really just bullshitting and using one\u003cbr\u003eanother,” explains Keith, a Pisces and admitted “hopeless” romantic. “Animals” and “Do Me\u003cbr\u003eThis Way” offer thumping, funky odes to unbridled, passionate lust.\u003cbr\u003e“’Animals’ is just about the chemistry between people,” observed Keith. “The coy games that\u003cbr\u003ecouples play, the dance of courtship which results in marriage and kids or is simply a one-night\u003cbr\u003estand. ‘Do Me This Way’ is about indulging in all the wrong shit in L.A., when you should be\u003cbr\u003efocusing on what you need to be doing.”\u003cbr\u003e“All for nothing, all for show\/If all else fails, at least we rode,” “On a Wave”\u003cbr\u003eAtlas Genius started out in Victor Harbor, a tiny town an hour south of Adelaide on the coast of\u003cbr\u003esouthern Australia in 2011 with Keith and his brothers Michael on drums and Steve on bass and\u003cbr\u003ekeys along with keyboardist Darren Sell, working out of a home studio they built with funds\u003cbr\u003efrom playing at local bars. Signed worldwide to Warner Records, Atlas Genius released a three-\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003esong EP and two full-length albums. The debut, When It Was Now, dropped in 2013, producing\u003cbr\u003ethe SiriusXM Alt Nation hit, “Trojans,” the album peaking at #3 on the Billboard Alternative\u003cbr\u003echart (where it remained for over 52 straight weeks), and #34 on the Billboard 200, with a\u003cbr\u003esecond single, “If So,” hitting #8 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Inanimate Objects\u003cbr\u003ecame out two years later, with the first single, “Molecules,” going Top 10 on Billboard’s\u003cbr\u003eAlternative Airplay chart, where it spent 22 weeks before the band was unceremoniously\u003cbr\u003edropped.\u003cbr\u003e“We have to remind people that we’re still here,” acknowledges Keith. “I feel very positive about\u003cbr\u003ethings now. You have to go through a really shit period to appreciate what you’ve got. We’re\u003cbr\u003eready to put the past behind us, to emerge from the ‘End of the Tunnel’ into the sunlight. We’re\u003cbr\u003eexcited to start playing these new songs for people. It’s about time.\u003cbr\u003e“This is by far our strongest album from front to back, mainly because we had the time to get it\u003cbr\u003eright. These 11 songs are the best from the more than hundred I’ve written over that time. 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