Teenage Wrist
Feb 4, 2021
"Earth Is A Black Hole" is the second LP from the Los Angeles rock act Teenage Wrist out on February 12th on Epitaph. The album also marks the group's first release since the departure of former bassist/vocalist Kamtin Mohager last year and sees the duo of guitarist Marshall Gallagher stepping up as frontman, with longtime drummer Anthony Salazar backing him up. “As soon as we found out Kam was exiting, I just started writing,” Gallagher said. “I wanted to keep this band going and we didn’t know exactly what that would look like, so I wrote two songs and demoed them myself to see if everyone was still on board.” With that, a new era of Teenage Wrist was born.
In 2015, the band released their debut EP "Dazed" followed by the band's first full-length album "Chrome Neon Jesus" in 2018. Gallagher remembers, “When we started making music in 2014, we found ourselves in the middle of this grunge revival which was really cool. But for this record we felt like we needed to push past that in a way and get a little more aggressive. We wanted to be more of a rock band this time around. I feel like a lot of modern rock music is trying to be something between pop and hip-hop and that’s not what we wanted to do at all. We wanted to make something big and aggressive that also had melody and immediacy."
Regarding the title track which is also the current single for the band, Gallagher said, “The idea for the title came to me during lockdown while we were in the recording process and what initially felt nihilistic started to feel more transient in the context of my life and this entire record. Everything will eventually disappear into nothing and that can make you feel small and insignificant. But that same fact should be motivation to tell the people who are important to you that you love them and savor these beautiful moments in your life because they’re never coming back. All we have is this moment and that’s the most important thing: To be present and be positive and transcend the black hole bullshit because it’s all going to end one day.”