In the UK, the ONS notes 46% rise since 1999 in number of 20- to 34-year-olds living at home. As a generation, millennials faced not one but two financial crises and a global pandemic, all in less than 15 years during their 20s. Now with the added baggage of having fucking wasted your twenties, placing all bets on things just working out because they always had. The magic behind the door of 30 is just more struggle. At the time of release, I was 30, nearly 31 and this album struck a very raw nerve.Įarly 30s was meant to be when we breathed a sigh of relief. The addition of ‘everyone’ a juxtaposition of looking outward as well as inward.Īlthough we can apply Brave Faces Everyone to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s real intent was to analyse leaving behind your 20s and examining all that brings - much in the same way The Menzinger’s After The Party did in 2017. It was time to be brave and to pull strength from unknown depths.

Bubbling under the surface was a global pandemic, impacting communities, economies but most devastating of all our lives.Įven the title was predictive. When Brave Faces Everyone was released in February 2020, Spanish Love Songs had no idea what was just around the corner (unless they’re mystics? Quite possibly). They were also the penultimate band I saw before live music was silenced. The perfect storm of emo, emotions, melancholy lead lyrics with catchy hooks and drum fills. I think i needed to write about it an open piece about the last year. I had this album on repeat playing it probably over 365 times. Brave Faces Everyone was one of my favourite albums last year but this was a hard review to write.

You are brave in spanish