ANDY THE DOORBUM
OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT - LP

UPC: 020543010458
Label: ALIEN NATIVE MOVEMENT 
Format: LP
Release Date: November 17, 2023
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‘Of Tears...’ is the 8th solo full length album by Andy the Doorbum. It is a personal journey centered around the process of grief. It was largely written in 2019 while his father, whom he had a complicated and turbulent relationship with, faced cancer. That’s where the grieving started though he was still very much alive. The album opens with a field recording of his father speaking about his imminent death after his diagnosis. Due to that ongoing illness the project was delayed. His father died two days shy of Christmas that year while Andy and his brother slept on the floor next to his bed. Not long before that their father said to them, “Boys, this world is going to hell, and I’m glad I won’t be here to see it.” Two months later the global pandemic hit. It was then the realization came that the grief wasn’t just for Andy, his father, or his family. It was a grieving of the world, and its weight truly began to sink in as the upheavals plainly unfolded. The sickness/death enveloping societies, the blatant inequalities/injustices consuming marginalized communities, the rising wave of autocratic/ authoritarian ideologies, the wars, the upending of weather patterns that govern the very life of the planet itself. It became clear that there was a whole world worth grieving for, a darkness in which the small glimmer of light left was worth raging to save. Grief is a peculiar thing. Gruesome and beautiful and necessary in equal parts. This record is an attempt to sit within the winter of all of it, and to spring back to life amongst the rising chorus of hopeful birds on the other side.

(It should be noted this somber offering of music is layered amongst field recordings collected by Andy himself across 10 US states and 7 countries)