What do you get when a piano powered pop-rock frontman flies solo after creating not one, but TWO internationally renowned bands? Well, something that looks and sounds a little bit like Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness we’d expect.
Following countless world tours with Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin, surviving leukaemia and having a music video directed by Twilight creator and cult-hero Stephenie Meyer, Andrew McMahon has finally gone it alone. The follow up to 2014’s gold-selling single “Cecelia and the Satellite“, his new album, Zombies On Broadway, packs one hell of a heartfelt punch. Seamlessly blending his ever-powerful knack for intriguing lyrics with enough hooks to land Jaws’s equally enormous cousin, McMahon brings a dose of nostalgia kicking and screaming into 2017.
If first single “Fire Escape” is anything to go by, he looks to be onto a winner. Combining soaring choruses with witty AF lyrics – try “the bankers in the lion’s den / dropping lines like beggars in the snow” out for size – the track stands as testament to McMahon’s proven songwriting abilities. Recorded in New York but finished up in his home state of California, “I wrote this album in the middle of a whirlwind,when the future was unclear,” he remarks of the album, “I found my way to the city, thinking I could settle a score with a ghost. You can’t, so I came home and rewrote the ending.”
Catch “Fire Escape” live on Kimmel below and be sure to grab yourself a copy of Zombies On Broadway now before his London date at Bush Hall on 23rd May!
