fanclubwallet details second album, Living While Dying
fanclubwallet, the indie-pop project of Ottawa-based Hannah Judge, has announced their second album, Living While Dying, alongside the release of new single, "New Distraction".
Written during her ongoing experience with chronic illness, "New Distraction" captures the restless search for something – anything – to break the monotony. "'Cmon, I’m waiting, for some kind of new distraction' was a mantra circling my brain these last couple years," says Judge. "This song came out of nowhere for me, though. I was too anxious to write a solo guitar lick for this but the band encouraged me, and it became one of my favourite parts. It reminds me of a Coldplay B-Side."
Hannah Judge began writing Living While Dying during a period of intense solitude and illness, managing Crohn's disease. “I was thinking about dying a lot,” she says. “It felt like I was stuck. Alive, but in freefall.” Illness became its own kind of limbo. A later surgery brought a period of relief – a sudden return to hope and joy – only for illness to return again. The album captures all three phases: despair, recovery, and the fragility of both.
Tracklist:
Am I Being Greedy
Cotton Mouth
Know You Anymore
Head On
Do Over
New Distraction
Do You Hate Me?
Gears
I Love The Hell I Know
Guts
Me Time
Living While Dying is set for release on 24 October via Lauren Records.
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