What a year this was. Live music all but disappeared, and we were left trying to replace it with a strange sort of “live on the internet” product.

As a performer, I often found myself missing the emotional aspect of live music; feeling a room full of people all experiencing an emotional state together. It’s a kind mass-empathy effect I’ve only experienced through performing, and very few experiences feel as profound.

It is a wonderful kind of Love, nearing some kind of Platonic ideal version of the concept, and in its absence I found myself lonely (for lack of a better word) for it. In that place, I wrote the songs for Silver Linings.

Poison touches on the power of negativity. You let it in and it hurts until you get used to it, like training your body to be immune to venom. Once you’ve become immune, it won’t kill you, but you have to come to terms with that poison being part of what you now are. Silver Linings was inspired by a look inward a dark day, musing on the idea that there’s a chance the optimism I hold for this world is sometimes a bit naive. California gets back out of hypothetical musing and into my belief that a day is only truly dark if you waste it waiting for something better and brighter to come along. And lastly, 300 Grams (the weight of a human heart) is a love song. Maybe not the most conventional of love songs, but it’s about the kind of love that one could live and die for, then happily conduct an autopsy on to record it forever.

In retrospect, I probably could have tried harder to remain positive through the pandemic. But the kind of deep, dark exploration that created the songs on Silver Linings has been a salve for me for as long as I can remember. You’ve got to dive pretty deep to find the pearls.

I’m grateful to you for finding your way here to listen to these songs. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed their creation.

The first single from Silver Linings will be released November 10th, 2021. If you would like to download a copy now, use the button that corresponds to the format you’d like and you’ll be directed to a private Dropbox folder. If you are interested in hosting a track or video premiere, or have questions about the release, please contact us at: bodiesonthebeach@gmail.com.

Recorded at MRX, Seattle, WA • Mixed by Matt Stegner • Mastered by Jonathan Kirschner • Cover artwork by Kelsey Kundera

Bodies on The Beach is: Navid Eliot - guitar & vocals • Andrew Ginn - percussion • Evan Gackstatter - bass

All recordings ©2021 Bodies On The Beach