WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY - AGAINST LOVE (LP)

Windsor For The Derby Against Love On Vinyl LP

For their latest outing, Windsor For The Derby began with a set of seemingly infinite drones and loops inspired by their early beginnings as a band. As those recordings were passed back and forth, the sounds were further sculpted by Dan Matz and Jason McNeely into their own left field brand of pop song. This became Against Love.

While they experimented with more formalized rock structures on their past few albums, Against Love finds the balance between experimentation and rock traditionmore heavily skewed toward the former. The songs are filled with tried & true conventions; some with pedal steel and acoustic guitar (“Dull Knives,” “After Love”), and others in waves of warm feedback and synth (“Queen of the Sun,” “Autumn Song”). Lyrically the songs are about how the modern world is changing the human condition, how we decide to land when the floor is pulled out from under us, and how hope is born from loss. The songs were shaped over months in backstage rooms, hotels, vans, and wherever else Matz and McNeely found time during WFTD’s European and American tours of the past two years. Tracks were finalized in Matz’s haunted Hope Union Studio, where disengaged clock chimes, spectral taps, and mysterious footsteps are a constant cause for another take; some left in the mix.

Windsor For The Derby Against Love Track Listing

1.  Against Love
2.  Autumn Song
3.  After Love
4.  Queen Of The Sun
5.  Singer 1968
6.  Moon Shadows
7.  Our Love's A Calamity
8.  Alex Lucero
9.  Dull Knives
10.  Hips
11. Cursed Ages
12. Tropical Depression