LISTEN HERE: The Royal Foundry wants to WAKEUP from bad dream
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Hear Edmonton band’s new single several hours before release!
The counterintuitive trick about empathy and validation is that you do NOT want to comfort someone with the old tropes: “Don’t worry about it! Everything’s going to be fine! You can do this! Believe in yourself!” – because then you’re dismissing the feeling.
Sometimes everything is not going to be fine.
This is theme, more or less, of The Royal Foundry’s new song WAKEUP WAKEUP. It’s the title track of a new album coming out Sept. 27 – a lush and expansive Arcadian Fire-type song on the subject of “rising above one’s anxieties.” It will be released to radio and streaming services on Friday Sept. 13.
Singer Beth Schumacher – one half of the husband-and-wife core of the band with Jared Salte – says the song is directed at themselves.
“I definitely have dreams where I was trying to wake up, and that’s where it stems from,” she says. “I can’t remember the dream, but I can still remember the feeling of wanting to wake up. That’s what we wanted to connect with in other people: things aren’t going your way, you desperately want to change, and you don’t know how. A lot of time people want an easy solution, or someone to fix it for them. We didn’t want to say: don’t worry, everything will be OK. A lot of time it’s not going to be OK. It’s going to be hard to get to where you want to be. The whole idea is to wake up to that fact, to rise through all that.”
It’s worth talking about the location for the music video: At the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri – an art gallery filled with works made from recycled junk.
“It couldn’t have been a better location to fit the theme of the song,” Schumacher says.
The Royal Foundry will be doing a Canadian tour in October which brings the band to Festival Place on Oct. 18.
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