Someday

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“Alcohol Funnycar’s Someday is kind of an anthem for these times…” Kevin Cole, KEXP

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ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR
NEW SINGLE FROM SEATTLE BAND. FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE 1996

MUSIC VIDEO FEATURES 50+ COVID-19 IMPACTED SEATTLE MUSIC VENUES, BARS, RESTAURANTS AND RETAILERS.

“These are swooning, love-lost songs...each ready to blow your heart open at every chorus.” - NME

Seattle band Alcohol Funnycar release their first new song since 1996. The single Someday was inspired by COVID-19 shelter in place.

Someday finds the band plugging back into their ‘90s sound and the results are a song that wouldn’t sound out of place on one any of their previous albums. While the band disbanded in 1997 and has played a few reunions show over the past 8 years, this is their first new music since Bill Clinton was president.

The song was inspired by a zoom call between longtime bandmates Ben London and Tommy Simpson. While lamenting that challenges, frustrations and fear connected to the current global pandemic, the two decided to record a new song from their individual homes sharing tracks back and forth. The song came together quickly and encapsulated their conversation about missing real-world connections with friends, attending shows and the bleak future many of our favorite music venues, bars and restaurants are facing.

Alcohol Funnycar jokingly refer to themselves as “footnotes of flannel” not having achieved the global success of some of their Seattle peers, so the stakes were not particularly high to record and release a new song. “It all came together completely organically” said AFC leader Ben London. “I never thought we’d record new music again. Making things is the way I deal with stress. Writing/recording during the pandemic has been one of the only things that’s given me some any sort of respite from this insanity.”

lyrics

SOMEDAY
Grief’s moving to another stage
Fifty days locked in a cage
And it’s just another day
Just another day

Isolation has taken its toll
A full house and I’m ready to fold
And it’s just another day
Just another day

This year’s gonna last forever
Someday we’ll be back together

Woke up scared, staring out at the street
Can’t get my check, or any relief
And it’s just another day
Just another day

Sinking deeper, down with the news
I’m agitated, Dazed and confused
And it’s just another day
Just another day

This year’s gonna last forever
Someday we’ll be back together

I’m in your mind, you’re in my mind

Someday we’ll be back
Someday we’ll be back
Someday we’ll be back together

This year’s gonna last forever
Someday we’ll be back together
This year’s gonna last
This year’s is gonna last
This year’s gonna last

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released May 19, 2020
SOMEDAY
WRITTEN BY BEN LONDON (ETHYLENE MUSIC/ASCAP)
PRODUCED BY BEN LONDON
RECORDED & MIXED: THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM NORTH MAY 2020
MASTERED BY: ADE EMSLEY @ TABLE OF TONE MASTERING LTD tableoftonemastering.com

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