{"id":35129,"date":"2020-11-23T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/featured\/the-return-of-bleachers\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:00:37","slug":"the-return-of-bleachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/culture\/the-return-of-bleachers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Bleachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020 might not have been our year, but at least we can say that it was the year Bleachers<\/a> came back. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Jack Antonoff\u2019s group has been pretty silent since their sophomore album Gone Now<\/em><\/a>, released in 2017. Fans have been not-so-patiently waiting for a follow-up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Antonoff started rumors of new music a few months ago when he started tweeting the phrase \u201ctake the sadness out of Saturday night\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>on (you guessed it) Saturday nights. Last week, he dropped a double-whammy: \u201c45\u201d and \u201cchinatown (feat. Bruce Springsteen<\/a>).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both songs feel nostalgic, in only that way a Jack-Antonoff song can. His music – whether it\u2019s his own Bleachers project or a production credit on another artist\u2019s track – manages to feel fresh, while still sounding like something you\u2019ve heard a hundred times before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Chinatown\u2019 starts in NYC and travels to New Jersey,\u201d Antonoff said in a statement released with the songs<\/a>. \u201cThat pull back to the place I am from mixed with terror of falling in love again. Having to show your cards to someone and the shock when you see them for yourself. Thinking you know yourself and where you are from \u2026.having to see yourself through somebody who you want to stay.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI started to write this song with these ideas ringing in my head,\u201d he continued. \u201cTo further understand who you are pushes you to further understand where you are from and what that looks and sounds like. There are pieces in that that are worth carrying forever and pieces worth letting die. \u2018Chinatown\u2019 and \u201945\u2019 are both the story of this \u2014 \u2018Chinatown\u2019 through someone else, \u201945\u2019 through the mirror. As for Bruce, it\u2019s the honor of a lifetime to be joined by him. He is the artist who showed me that the sound of the place I am from has value and that there is a spirit here that needs to be taken all over the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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No word yet on when we can expect any more songs, or if there is an album coming, but I have a feeling Antonoff won\u2019t leave us hanging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Check out \u201c45\u201d and \u201cchinatown (feat. Bruce Springsteen)\u201d here!<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n