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Bad Year 2023

Posted by Loren on January 16, 2023

Bad Year 2023
Bad Year 2023

Bad year returns with a new LP tomorrow, called Faded Memories and releasing via Punkerton Records.

The band formed in Milwaukee, WI in 2019, consequently releasing two EPs: Handshakes and A Moment In Time.

The first single, “Charcoal Black,” is also the album's first song, explained in a statement as follows:

The song symbolizes those sleepless nights where you can’t breathe and you feel that all hope is lost; that you will never recover...When we feel that all we have to look forward to is more of the same miserable existence. Our emotional decay, our spiritual demise, and the crushing awareness that nothing would ever change were constants in our bereavement. Our hold on life was weak at best, we had little hope and no concept of the life we were missing out on.

Bad Year 2023
Bad Year 2023

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