“You know, it’s really weird”, opines Veronica Falls’ honey-throated singer/ guitarist/ lynchpin Roxanne Clifford when asked about their media-conceived “goth pop” tag. “Because when you start a band, and you start writing songs together, you never think anybody else is going to hear them. You’re just kind of writing it for yourselves. Songs like “Found Love in a Graveyard” and “Beachy Head”, we thought they were playful and not serious at all…”

“I’d say the word “wistful” really describes the mood of the album”, Clifford muses. “We chose the album title because to me it captures what people our age are all going through”. Indeed, the emotional throughline, from the title down, is one of slowly coming to terms with the process of growing up and eventually learning to face adult responsibility, of leaving behind the safe haven of “driving late at night, I’ll let you listen to the music you like…everything’s alright” (as they sing on the dreamy, dewy-eyed “Teenage”), and then searching for a “shooting star to point me in the right direction” (“Shooting Star”). Far from retreading the playful atmosphere of the debut, the band here mine a much more rich, emotionally resonant vein, be it weariness with dead end social scenes (“So Tired”), or the fear of your peers moving on with their lives before you’re ready (“Everybody’s Changing”).

Tracklisting

1. Tell Me
2. Teenage
3. Broken Toy
4. Shooting Star
5. Waiting For Something to Happen
6. If You Still Want Me
7. My Heart Beats
8. Everybody’s Changing
9. Buried Alive
10. Falling Out
11. So Tired
12. Daniel
13. Last Conversation

Tour Dates

3/6 –  Black Cat, Washington DC *
3/7 – Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia, PA  *
3/8 –  Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY *
3/9 –  Great Scott, Boston, MA  *
3/10 – Divan Orange, Montreal *
3/12 – The Garrison, Toronto, ON *
3/13 – Beachland Tavern, Cleaveland, OH +
3/14 – Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL +
3/15 – High Noon, Madison, WI  +
3/16 – 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN +
3/18 – Hi-Dive, Denver, CO
3/21 – Tractor, Seattle, WA ^
3/22 – Media Club, Vancouver, BC #
3/23 – Doug Fir, Portland, OR ^
3/26 – Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA^
3/29 – Echo, Los Angeles, CA ^
3/30 – Casbah, San Diego, CA ^

* w/ Cold Showers & Cheatahs
+ w/ Cold Showers
^ w/ Brilliant Colors & Golden Grrrls
# w/ Brilliant Colors