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Hard Days

by Four Lions

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    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
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    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

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    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
    credits
    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hard Days via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    180 Gram Vinyl made by Zenith Records in Melbourne. Limited copies. Comes with the album download once purchased.

    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
    credits
    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

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    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
    credits
    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hard Days via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    180 Gram Vinyl made by Zenith Records in Melbourne. Limited copies. Comes with the album download once purchased.

    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
    credits
    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hard Days via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    180 Gram Vinyl made by Zenith Records in Melbourne. Limited copies. Comes with the album download once purchased.

    HARD DAYS
    by FOUR LIONS


    Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
    Label: Verse Chorus Verse
    Release date: May 1, 2019


    Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

    “It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

    Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

    “I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

    Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

    “I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

    Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

    “Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

    And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

    The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.
    credits
    releases May 1, 2019

    Produced By The Greasy Triplets
    Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
    Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
    Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

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1.
Stay 03:03
Stay Can't lie straight in bed crooked nook to lay your head Self fulfilling prophecy resonates you and me Why don't you want to stay I'll make it easier Will you want to stay, still believe in us? Standing in trenches of deceit, swept away found your weak Nails in open and free, resonates blood you and me Why don't you want to stay I'll make it easier Will you want to stay, still believe in us? Why don't you want to stay I'll make it easier Will you want to stay, I'll make it easier Will you want to stay, Why don't you want to stay Will you want to stay, stay, stay
2.
Bent on Revenge I try to keep my enemies closer, No one wins on this battle line Stand under the bridge with its dirty water good will's embers build some desire Bent On Revenge, ain't our friend, use us all till who's knows when? Bent on revenge, Bent on revenge Years later on a suburban street added a patch to a slow leak Competition or a regime? As the glue tears away from a seam. Bent On Revenge, ain't our friend, use us all till who's knows when? Bent on revenge, Bent on revenge Bent On Revenge, ain't our friend, use us all till who's knows when? Bent on revenge, Bent on revenge Bent on revenge, bent on revenge, bent on revenge, bent on revenge
3.
Tragic Modern Love Stand waiting for an easier way, in the end we all start in this maze Two floating ships, trying to sail the bay hitting jaggered rocks now castaway Hold me in those arms I wanna be in your arms Show me now, tell me how This can't be, tragic modern love Sprinting towards the departure gate to board a flight on our missing plane Covered in mirrors never taking off from our runway Hold me in those arms I wanna be in your arms Show me now, tell me how This can't be, tragic modern love Show me now, tell me how This can't be, tragic modern love Show me now, tell me how This can't be, tragic modern love Show me now, tell me how This can't be, tragic modern love
4.
Gone 04:25
Gone Blame myself for letting you in Know my failures are in dealing sin Life's hands a well worn receipt The inks all run, faded crumpled at your feet Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go Can I speak if I have no voice, I tumble and fall I'll make the choice Life's hands a well worn receipt The inks all run, faded crumpled at your feet Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go Gone am I, gone am I, gone, last dance before I go
5.
The Saddest Place Kev's a brickie Chucks the occasional sickie But he’s as straight up as you can get He doesn’t squirrel away All that much of his pay ‘Cause he lives for a beer and a bet On site in the mornin’ Mixing mortar, yawnin’ With a ciggy dangling from his lips He says ‘computers are weird’ As he scratches his beard ‘I only deal in cash. Get a grip’ Every night, right on five You know he’ll be hangin’ in this dive It’s the saddest place in all this town It’s the saddest place in a this town Sonya’s alright Yeah she’s here every night After she’s finished her day cutting hair Though the years have wandered by There’s still a sparkle in her eye In her day she used to be quite a tear The kids are all gone But no use being forlorn Why sit at home alone with the cats She needs a good bloke To light her heart, and her smoke A good brickie could take care of that It’s the saddest place in all this town It’s the saddest place in all this town Now every night, right on five They’re walkin’ in, side by side It’s the happiest place in all this town It’s the happiest place in all this town It’s the happiest place in all this town It’s the happiest place in all this town
6.
Mr Bones 04:01
MR. BONES If the fall is ever big, I'll take the burden and the blame like your favourite spoon honey, little bent outta shape Red wine split kiss moments like this lost in the cold Standing with you in this wilderness feels like home You're the lamplight shining leading the way Mr Bones they call me, help me up from the floor Covered in knots, move closer untie me some more If the fall is ever big, I'll take the burden and the blame like your favourite spoon honey, I'm a little bent outta shape Red wine split kiss moments like this lost in the cold Standing with you in this wilderness feels like home You're the lamplight shining leading the way Mr Bones they call me, help me up from the floor Covered in knots, move closer untie me some more Mr Bones they call me, help me up from the floor Covered in knots, move closer untie me some more
7.
Whatever I do Not a single thing could the stop butterflies flutter when you're near If I am the sun, you're the world rotate today as one Love, Love if it's true then give one's heart, keep half for you ignite or disintegrate it's a journey into unknown space if it's true Whatever I do, Is it good enough for you? Whatever I do. Whatever I say, don't interpret it that way. Whatever I do. Not a single thing we're like bubble gum chewed up can you spit? If I am the one tell the world escape bunker built for one Lust, lust if it's due then share the spirit in front of you ignite or disintegrate it's a journey into unknown space if it's true Whatever I do, Is it good enough for you? Whatever I do. Whatever I say, don't interpret it that way. Whatever I do. Whatever I do, Is it good enough for you? Whatever I do. Whatever I say, don't interpret it that way. Whatever I do.
8.
How Much 03:51
How Much I can't stand it lie me and you'll believe it Lost in the loyalty once hurt and you'll bleed it Never let the flame burn you twice Follow the sky ignite moonlight Hold in this dream and push me into the dark Nothing as it seems a strategic front Hold in this dream and push me into the dark We're all broken it's how much? It's how much I can't stand it lie me and you'll believe it Lost in the loyalty once hurt and you'll bleed it Never let the flame burn you twice Follow the sky ignite moonlight Hold in this dream and push me into the dark Nothing as it seems a strategic front Hold in this dream and push me into the dark We're all broken it's how much? Hold in this dream and push me into the dark Nothing as it seems a strategic front Hold in this dream and push me into the dark We're all broken it's how much? It's how much
9.
My Own Lies 03:07
My Own Lies Self Destruct is the easy way out not going to kiss me with that scabby little mouth cheating gives you the power in your subconscious mind down in submission majority of the time I believe in my own lies Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin I believe my own lies Walls slowly cave in as it sinks, Screaming inside as no one hears, standing at the top of the hill being hit by lighting as I remain still I believe my own lies Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin I believe my own lies I believe my own lies I believe my own lies Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin Know your place softly he says know your place pretty mannequin I believe my own lies I believe my own lies
10.
Hard Days 03:27
Hard Days Hard Days, Hard Days I don't know who you are when you're coming down I don't know who you are when you're winding up Do you think that i'll stick around? Ride the tiny fractures and then come unstuck Hard Days, Hard Days Whom am I if I stand my ground, way you bleed without any sound don't we own vicious suffering, live together yet I'm so alone Hard Days, Hard Days Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard Days, Hard
11.
Living with a stranger She lifts her pretty head from the pillow stares so vacantly it shutters my soul Says she's moving to the interstate, where her family is originally from I thought you might get bored in the country but on land is where I belong Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak Takes her favourite things from our bedroom Stared so vacantly it shutters my soul So she's moved to the country, I've been told where I belong Could be moving to the interstate what's right and what is so wrong? Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak Matter of time I knew it was coming deep down that's what I told myself Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak Living with a stranger easier to runaway here with me there's no danger a rising tide washes into heartbreak

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HARD DAYS
by FOUR LIONS


Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
Label: Verse Chorus Verse
Release date: May 1, 2019


Central Victorian roots rockers Four Lions will release their fourth album Hard Days on May 1 - and the band says it is their best work yet.

“It’s something I listen back to, and there is nothing I would change,” frontman and chief songwriter Shann Lions says.

Hard Days was recorded over a fortnight last July at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studios by Finn Keane (“He’s very understated and utterly brilliant,” says Lions), and produced by The Greasy Triplets (Lions, lead guitarist Keith MacQueen, and Keane).

“I wanted to make an album that wasn’t rushed, but sonically was an amalgamation of everything we had done previously,” Lions says.

Unlike previous albums, five of Hard Days’ 11 tracks feature inter-band collaborations. “There is one song which we all wrote together (the second single Stay), and I can see album No.5 having more of that approach,” Lions says.

“I did a combination of the styles of writing of all the previous albums, but listened to alot of pop music. I wanted my writing to be diverse in an indirect way.”

Hard Days was mixed by Sam Kassirer in Boston, Massachusetts, to whom Lions reached out after hearing his production work on David Ramirez’s 2017 album We’re Not Going Anywhere – his favourite record of that year.

“Being able to have Sam mix the album is one of the best things musically to happen in my life,” Lions enthuses. “Great people strive you to build towards greatness.”

And Lions’ ambitions for the album? “A tour with (Bruce) Springsteen or Wilco after they hear it!” he laughs.“Plus to have enough people like it and buy it so we can record album No.5, and I can buy myself a ‘90s pinball machine.”

The release of Hard Days will be followed by a tour of regional and metropolitan Victoria in late May and early June, and a string of interstate dates later in the year.

credits

released May 1, 2019

Produced By The Greasy Triplets
Engineered By Finn Keane at Head Gap, Preston, Victoria, Australia
Mixed By Sam Kassirer at Meffa, Boston, MA, USA
Mastered By Ludwing Diaz at US Mastering, San Francisco, CA, USA

Four Lions - Bradley Bradford, Gav Moncrieff, Stephen Briggs, Keith MacQueen and Shann Lions.

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