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Dawes came up through the Laurel Canyon revival scene of the late 2000s, carrying the torch of artists like Jackson Browne and the Silver Bullet Band's melodic storytelling into a new generation. By their sixth album, the Los Angeles four-piece had built a devoted following through relentless touring and a reputation for albums that reward repeated listening, and *Passwords* finds them leaning into the tension between personal intimacy and broader social observation that has always defined their best work.
On the group's sixth album, Passwords, inspiration pulls guitarist/ singer Taylor Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, bassist Wylie Gelber, and keyboardist Lee Pardini into their most universal, topical territory to date. This is a record about the modern world: the relationships that fill it, the politics that divide it, the small victories and big losses that give it shape. Taylor's writing is personal at points - the result of his recent engagement, which lends a sense of gravity and self-reflection to album highlights like "Time Flies Either Way" and "I Can't Love" - but it also zooms out, focusing not on the director himself, but on everything within the lens.
Tracklist
1. Living In The Future (4:56)
2. Stay Down (3:20)
3. Crack The Case (5:55)
4. Feed The Fire (5:57)
5. My Greatest Invention (5:47)
6. Telescope (6:34)
7. I Can't Love (5:35)
8. Mistakes We Should Have Made (3:48)
9. Never Gonna Say Goodbye (3:56)
10. Time Flies Either Way (5:56)
UPC: 857223004991
Label: Hub Records
Release Date: 6.22.18
Format: CD