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It was produced by Rowe’s friend and longtime collaborator Troy Pohl, whom he has known since he was in his early twenties while Pohl was still a teen. The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights is ripe with both dimensions. Now it’s up to me to choose which one I want to exist in.” I think that the lessons learned over that weekend are still being revealed but in those moments, I seemed to experience real heaven and hell. Two of those experiences brought me to a place of such intense beauty and peace, while the third showed me the exact opposite. “Over the course of an intense weekend, I had three profound experiences that stripped away all of my defenses and rationalization, along with the guilt and anger that built up over the course of being a human. So, in realizing that, you begin to realize that you have the ability to decide which one you’re gonna make.” Rowe credits therapy and a guided ayahuasca retreat with helping him to reach this understanding. “The heaven and hell that swirls around in our head - to a large extent, we make both. Rowe opened up about some of the work he’s been doing to build a fitter, happier version of himself. I’m gonna fall in love with the woods again. I’m gonna fall in love with the road again. “I’m gonna write a song, gonna call a friend. When you ain’t there, you ain’t there to feel all that pain.” In the chorus, he lists some of what he's looking forward to. “A little death, it won’t kill us after all and that’s fine. Here, Rowe brushes off the dirt and looks ahead to the freedom of only being accountable to oneself. While “To Make It Real” was forged from the despair that comes from losing yourself to heartache, “Little Death” recognizes that both in spite of and because of such events, it’s possible to find yourself again. When you lose that love, when you lose your mind, well then oh my God, you make it real.” “When you lose your way, when you lose your face, when you’re paid tenfold for what you used to steal. Everything is wrong but you look so damn beautiful tonight.” It’s a relatable couplet that illustrates the paradox between what once was and what now is, while the chorus howls in response to being lost in the inbetween. The album’s title is taken from its first single, “To Make It Real.” “All this darkness, dressed in colored lights. Rowe, an artist and nomad at heart, has made himself into the perfect repository for volumes of every variety - hysterical, terrifying, heartbreaking, mystifying, and ridiculous - and on this record, he makes it clear that at some point it’s hard not to feel them all at once. Some, like this, play out over the course of a few minutes while others, more profound and complex, take years to untangle. They recounted the head-scratching tale of their brush with a minor celebrity and after some failed attempts to make sense of it, went back to the business of making a record.Ī curious mind and a sense of adventure make for quite a collection of stories. As he was pulling away, Brian Joseph came sprinting across the yard to see what was happening. Troy and Sean nodded in recognition and without another word, the man climbed back into his minivan and drove off. “Stupid Human Tricks - I could pour two beers at once without using any of my appendages.” “Yep, back in the early 90’s, I was on David Letterman twice.” Rowe, thinking that’s exactly the kind of thing someone might say before murdering you, replied, “I actually have.
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A stout and somewhat menacing man emerged, who did little to calm suspicions when he spoke. It pulled so close that it almost touched the picnic table. While catching their breath, they noticed a minivan that had turned off of the rarely traveled road adjacent to the property and onto the grass, driving straight towards them. They were holed-up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, working at Brian Joseph’s studio, Hive, which is situated on a remote acreage of rolling green hills. When your flashlight batteries just went coldīut these flashlight batteries just went coldĪbout half-way through the recording of Sean Rowe’s excellent new album, The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights (Fluff & Gravy Records), he and producer Troy Pohl were taking a break. You don't care what the sign on the fence says Theres only 10 percent of me that really hates that you're a grifter I never slept good on your one person mattressīut i miss your broken lamp made of shells Sometimes i wish they didn't matter wish they didn't matter See your brothers in the graveyard of repairĪnd i gave you more than half of my bread And your hoping that tomorrow’s gonna save your tired ass