![]() ![]() The opening “Living Proof” sets the template with acoustic strumming and piano, leaving until the end a wrenching, electric Granduciel guitar solo. He’s explaining how the band tried unsuccessfully to communicate via email, forcing him to “work alone in my house, trying to make sense of these songs, getting frustrated with a few of the ones we worked on before the pandemic.” “So much of this album came from working during that time, both lyrically and with Shawn ,” says Granduciel, talking over Zoom in a parked car somewhere in his adopted home of Los Angeles. ![]() Even though much of the material for the new “I Don’t Live Here Anymore” was written and recorded before COVID-19, it’s hard not to hear the album through the prism of the pandemic, with its themes of moving forward, embracing and dreading change, and the importance of friends, family and co-workers.
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