DS Review: Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties – “In Lieu of Flowers”

The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell, has been hard at work; in 2014, he created a well-thought-out alter ego known as Aaron West, best defined as “a character study conducted through music” – basically a fictitious telling about his alter ego’s life. The first album, We Don’t Have Each Other, told the story about Aaron West’s worst year; in 2019, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties released the follow-up, Routine Maintenance, which according to Campbell, gave the fictitious alter ego a redemption arc and focused on him learning to deal with tragedy instead of going down the self-destructive route. Five years later, the Americana folk project released a new album, In Lieu of Flowers, the third and final album for Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties.  In Lieu of Flowers k...

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