One possibility would be to group the songs from each chapter together. ), “It harks back to something we used to do when we were starting out,” Fraites recalls. The term "Leader of the Landslide" meansthe leader of what bad things happened, like Junior Sparks' mom leaving. And thank god they did. At Bonnaroo, I saw them in one of the tents on Father’s Day, and Michael Franti gave a beautiful intro to a song, where he spoke about the various people in his band and in his crew who had lost their fathers. Schultz reveals, “For me, having a song on the radio is as an icebreaker, it’s your opening line at the bar. The band’s work shares an earnest, emotive through line, which helps the group’s swelling audiences feel connected and in the moment. Still, the band faced a particular challenge when playing to such a sizable audience: how to incorporate new material with a particularly dark turn. Phillips and The Lumineers set themselves an formidable task with the Sparks story. So I commemorated a moment that was so special to me, and I asked people to put their arms around each other while we played ‘Gun Song’ because that one’s about my dad. It’s also interesting that as we started writing the album together, we had each just had a baby boy. I really admired producers like Timbaland, Rick Rubin and The Neptunes. About “Leader of the Landslide” 2 contributors During a live performance, Lumineers lead man Wesley Schultz stated that “Leader of the Landslide” was a … It was a moment he had long anticipated. But there’s also hope in it, and that’s the part that you only get if you stay around long enough to hear it, and if you listen to it often enough. There, she stood alongside Fraites, Schultz, Ulvang and bassist Byron Isaacs for a four-song set, which saw the musicians peel off and return to the main stage over the course of the performance, in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the Von Trapp children during The Sound of Music’s “So Long Farewell.” It ended with Schultz, alone on the riser, singing “Ophelia,” then strolling through the crowd with a wireless microphone while finishing the song. To some degree, there was familiarity with the material via a series of three music videos that had already been released from the “Gloria Sparks” sequence, which would later be followed by seven more to capture the full epic sweep of the narrative. During a live performance, Lumineers lead man Wesley Schultz stated that “Leader of the Landslide” was a song for those “battling addiction” or “knew someone who has/had battled addiction.”. Is this something good?’ We thought that if it was cathartic for us, then it might be for other people. That’s what I aspired to do at the time. I remember we were living at this really small house and we were working on music. 42,778 views, added to favorites 2,803 times. “So creating these characters, but saying what actually happened at times and depicting it in a really unflinching way, appealed to me because I didn’t feel like I was hurting that person. I literally said to myself before we started playing together: ‘I will not be in a band with a singer. In October 2018, the group announced that she would be leaving the band to pursue a solo career. Leader Of The Landslide Chords by The Lumineers. The songs ends with an interpolation from The Lumineers song Gloria, as an ode to how the two songs and two characters are connected. “We’ve learned a lot about how to support those songs in the setlist,” Schultz adds. III debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 86,000 album-equivalent units, including 73,000 pure album sales. There's a handful of songs that I can remember off the top of my hea... d that were written while riding. The songs ‘Ho Hey’ and ‘Dead Sea’ are shining examples of third-wave folk done right with their slow-churning crescendos and trudging, but determined beats; the songs practically roar with life, inviting anyone game to sing along.”. The tunes are moving without feeling moody or maudlin. Leader of the Landslide The Lumineers 2019 More by The Lumineers. I saw the worst case scenario of what addiction can do to a single individual, which was death. The music I go back to over and over is often darker than that. The Lumineers have released the music video for 'Leader Of The Landslide,' a song off their upcoming album III out September 13 on Dualtone … There was an open mic at this place called the Meadowlark. However, Schultz notes, “That was a much bigger priority this time around—to incorporate more of the record than in the past when we might be precious with that. Watch HERE. At one point, my dad said to my mom in private, ‘I think he’s got something and if we encourage him to work hard, maybe something will happen. We considered moving to the city, but were like, ‘If we live in New York City, we’re each going to have to work two or three jobs, which would leave like two hours a week to work on music.’”, So after considering a number of areas—from Philadelphia to the U.K.’s Brighton Beach—they opted for the Mile-High City. So I was never frightened by that; I never thought it was a bad thing.”, Fraites adds, “I don’t really know a song that’s truly affected my life positively that is a happy song. “You just get a sense about a song and what it can do live that you really didn’t know in the studio. “I thought, ‘This is a cool, weird song and it’s going to be awesome for a really nice pair of headphones, and when you’re sitting on your couch at night. Leader of the Landslide art by anavi_arts on Instagram. It’s almost as if they want to die but, for better or for worse, they’re slowly getting by on this path of wreckage. It was exciting to say, ‘We’re going to play some new music and that’s going to be OK,’ without feeling like people were going to run for the hills. It soon became an intense, nearly insular experience. It was absurd, but we met a lot of people in Denver. No one was there for show or for the fashion.”. If you drive 12 hours a day from Denver to Omaha, show up, load in all your gear, set it all up, and there are 10 people in the crowd, then you’re losing money on gas, and losing money on everything else in your life, except music. Then he said, ‘Two weeks ago, my father died,’ and explained that he wanted to sing a song about his dad and that he wanted everybody to put their arms around the person next to them, even if they were a stranger, and sing along. PREMIERE: ‘Leader Of The Landslide’ Official Video Out Now. 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You have like 45 minutes to make an impression on people. It reinforces the concept of how addiction is most devastating behind the white picket fence, as family members must put on brave faces for the rest of the world, while enduring their private, personal suffering. So I was feeling a bit apprehensive, like, ‘Wow, this is going to potentially be a shock to the system. But we’re not going to play this live.’ It’s basically me on piano and Wes singing, but for such a quiet song, it gets one of the biggest reactions live.”, Fraites pauses, then looks back on his experience devising and developing the poignant sounds of III: “We never decided, ‘Let’s go dark on this album’ or anything as clear cut as that. I had seen Michael Franti & Spearhead open up for Dave Matthews Band, but I had only caught part of that set. 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It wasn’t an argument as in, ‘I think you’re talking about this too much.’ It was like, ‘I need to acknowledge that we’re talking about this a lot.’ Wesley writes 99% of the lyrics, and a lot of them had to do with something going on in his life, with somebody that he cares about who’s struggling with alcohol addiction. At the time, the pair were working on the material that would eventually surface on the band’s stirring, ambitious new album, III, but Fraites felt they needed a break. “At that point, my dad wasn’t sick yet, but he died in 2007 after a three-or-four-year battle with cancer. Every day, every night" are talking about how Junior wonders what happened to his mother. The following tracks will sound good when mixed with The Lumineers - Leader Of The Landslide, because they have similar tempos, adjacent Camelot values, and complementary styles. Finally I can see you as the leader of the landslide She left, she left, the writing's on the wall Please believe me, don't answer when she calls The only thing I know is that we're in too deep And maybe when she's dead and gone I'll get some sleep Out there on my own I was feeling so alone Like a … Now you can go pretty deep with how you can present the music and tell a story.”. LUMINEERS Leader Of The Landslide Lyrics. All of this was on display this past summer during the closing day of Manchester, Tenn.’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, when The Lumineers played the penultimate set on the What Stage, just prior to Phish. Still, as Schultz explains, when he and Fraites began writing songs for their followup to 2016’s Cleopatra, they had no intention of crafting a concept record. Her association with the group goes all the way to the first record, where she contributed to “Stubborn Love” and “Dead Sea.” Fraites explains, “We had known her for years. So this year at Bonnaroo, we played on Father’s Day, and I told that story and talked about how my dad never saw me do much of anything with music. The album is divided into three chapters, exploring three generations of the fictional Sparks clan. He will make two more appearances in Leader Of The Landslide and Left For Denver, released later this month. All there is to say about love, sadness, happiness and life has been said already. That was when I said, ‘Hey, can we go for a walk around the block?’, “While we were doing that, I told him, ‘It’s becoming apparent that there’s a lot of subject matter about this heavy stuff.’ We had a good, long conversation that was really cathartic and constructive. When we wanted to watch The Office on DVD just to chill out, I had to move my drumset away from the TV. The younger musician recalls, “When Wes came back to Ramsey, he contacted a mutual friend of ours, Justin Papp, and said, ‘Hey, I want to gig out, can you drum with me?’ He was like, ‘Sure, I’d love to, but not without Jer.’ At the time, we were making up raps and hip-hop instrumental beats, and we called ourselves, very cheesily, The Professors. One that I remember vividly was Angela. Bonnaroo also felt grassroots and not superficial. Schultz and Fraites tapped Kevin Phillips to direct the series, after watching Phillips’ film Super Dark Times. I just want to be in an instrumental band with weird drums.’”. “I had wanted to leave college to start really pursuing music,” he says. Schultz and Fraites share songwriting duties in The Lumineers, so she opted to strike out on her own to create music. At the height of the ‘Ho Hey’ success, we would play that song third or fourth in the set. 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