Speaking about the lead single, Brian D’Addario says: “It’s a love song having to do with those fleeting moments when you grasp something real, amidst all the noise and propaganda. ‘The night is pitch black until the morning.’ Maybe things need to completely collapse before they get better.”
Following the group’s critically acclaimed Everything Harmony in 2023 and last year’s follow up, A Dream Is All We Know, the forthcoming release is the latest studio production from the brothers and, unlike most solo records, wasn’t born out of any desire to break away from the group. Most of the songs were recorded alongside Brian’s brother Michael, with Michael co-producing the record, singing harmony, and even co-singing lead on two of the songs.
Till the Morning features two collaborations with LA poet Stephen Kalinich. Kalinich is famous for his longstanding relationship with The Beach Boys. He cowrote “Little Bird” and “Be Still” with Dennis Wilson on their 1968 classic, Friends.
“I met Stephen in 2017 after playing some of our first shows in LA. I was such a fan of his work and was struck by his dynamism and personality. He was dressed in all bright orange; in his words “like a pumpkin!” For a while he was sending me poems and asking me to put music to them. When I read the words to ‘What You Are Is Beautiful’, it felt very musical and as soon I picked up the guitar it flowed easily. It was the same case about a year later when he sent ‘Song Of Everyone.’”