This time last year, Brian Fallon was gearing up to cross the pond for his Songs From The Hymnal UK tour – a series of stripped-back shows in which the New Jersey musician performed songs from his extensive back-catalogue using just a guitar or piano. He didn’t know it at the time, but it would later give him the confidence to attempt a full record of stripped-back, mellow music – a far-cry from his early punk rock days in The Gaslight Anthem. “I didn’t know if that tour was going to work,” he tells Kerrang!. “But it seemed like people liked it, and the shows did really well, so I felt like, ‘Okay, maybe my audience is accepting of this kind of thing.’ I think maybe that tour made me feel like I had permission.” Even so, Brian didn’t initially set out to specifically write the st...
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