Photo credit: Tom May
Indie-punk veterans, Elway, recently shared their song, “Down The Lane and Far Away,” with a lyric video. The single is taken off their new album, Nobody’s Going To Heaven, out now on the Red Scare Industries record label. Watch the video and find out more below.
Stream Nobody’s Going To Heaven here: https://orcd.co/elway2025
“Live in the western world in 2025 and tell me that our society has the mandate of God in its breast pocket, our primacy on this planet teeters precariously on a mountain of the dead,” says Frontman Tim Browne. “If there is a divine to be won with our time here on Earth, you can bet your bottom dollar that we will never see it in the hereafter. In fact, our prayers would be better spent in the hope that there isn’t a life to come, because none of us deserve it. Best to spend the rest of your life mending what you’ve broken and squeezing every last drop of happiness you can from the rinds. Nobody’s Going To Heaven is at once an indignant dispatch from within the walls of the crumbling empire and a prayer, insofar as we can muster one, for a better, post-American, world.”
On the single “Down The Lane and Far Away” Tim Browne says: “It feels like every day we lose more of our connection with the natural world and with each other. The simulacra of real human interactions that define our days are approaching an event horizon after which we will be lost entirely to each other and to the immovable truth at the center of our existence, which is that all the universe is meant to be shared and enjoyed, not stashed away behind layers of digital obfuscation. Touch grass before we’re too far gone, kids.”
Elway are back, and they’ve officially run out of patience. Tim Browne is fresh outta fucks and his sights are set on America, capitalism, and the many flavors of mediocrity in between. Their seventh full-length album, mixed and mastered at the legendary Blasting Room is bursting with melody, urgency, and razor-sharp scrutiny. It’s Elway at their most sonically ambitious and it’s their most politically brutal release to date—a catchy think-piece disguised as a punk record, aimed squarely at a world in disarray. If you’ve ever screamed into a pillow after scrolling the news, Nobody’s Going To Heaven might just be your new favorite coping mechanism.
“We didn’t set out to make a protest record,” says Browne. “But at some point, if you’re paying attention and you’re still making art, you end up making one anyway.”
Catch them this fall:
10/26 @ The Fest – Gainesville, FL
11/7 @ Skylark Lounge – Denver, CO
Tickets: https://dice.fm/event/xen26e-elwaygila-teenhooper-7th-nov-skylark-lounge-denver-tickets
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