Abandoned
Pools release their long-awaited third album, Sublime
Currency on August 28, 2012 via Tooth & Nail Records. Sublime
Currency is the culmination of the eleven-year journey of Tommy
Walter, the songwriter and musician who began the project after leaving eels. Abandoned
Pools will play a rare club appearance for their CD release when they headline
The Roxy in Hollywood on September 15.
Tommy Walter was bassist and co-founder of the
critically acclaimed band eels, who sold well over a million copies of the
debut album, Beautiful Freak. Sublime Currency is
the follow up to Abandoned Pools’ 2005 release Armed to the Teeth,
a disc that revealed a songwriter grappling with confusion and darkness. Now,
Tommy has answered his own questions, finding solace in his faith and recent
marriage.
“This record is more of a joyful record,” expands Walter.
“I’m a happier person after I’ve gone through this process. I reached a low
point in my life and I think my music now reveals how I overcame that. This
record is about feeling like I discovered something that’s important to me.”
Prior to making the album, Tommy concentrated on producing,
mixing and songwriting, working with artists, producers and bands such as Sara
Bareilles, Ryan Tedder, Backstreet Boys, Better Then Ezra, Mike Simpson of The
Dust Brothers, Bryce Soderberg ofLifehouse and many
more. When Abandoned Pools signed to Tooth & Nail, fans took to the
Internet to proclaim their excitement for Tommy’s return.
Sublime Currency is a unified, cohesive
vision from a single focused musician. Tommy played all the instruments
on the album, with the exception of the drums.
“I went back to my core of writing on my own and recording
on my own because it keeps the project focused,” he explains. “I had a lot of
range on the first album and I wanted to keep that going here, this range of
styles. The songs come from a long span of time, but I feel like they’re all appropriate
to now.”
While “Unrehearsed” showcases the more
pop-oriented side of the album as a surging tune that recalls Abandoned Pools’
debut,“In Silence,” a track Tommy penned about getting married, is
an immediate and engaging mellow rock number. It’s the title track, however,
that culls the album together. Named from a quote by composer John Cage, the
synth-laced rock track aims to share Tommy’s personal journey, offering the
listener some sense of how one can emerge from the struggle in the lyrics: “I
can push the buttons/I can wrestle with the phantoms/Till I see that all the
best things happen naturally.”
"It all comes down to where your motivation is when you
make music,” Tommy says. “It's not about hype or trying to get someone's
attention. It's about making music for the love of music itself.”
Abandoned Pools – Sublime Currency Track
Listing
1 – Sublime Currency
1 – Sublime Currency
2 – Hype Is the Enemy
3 – Unrehearsed
4 – Behemoth
5 – 9 Billion
6 – Autopilot
7 – In Silence
8 – Marigolds
9 – Legionnaire
10 – From Long Sleep
11 – In Shadows
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