12 hours Ago By James Wilson-Taylor
The Brobecks , the band formerly fronted by iDKHOW’s Dallon Weekes, appear to be officially re-releasing their second album ‘Happiest Nuclear Winter’. The record has never been reissued since its original 2005 release and is currently unavailable on streaming services. A teaser video was posted yesterday (December 10) by None You Jerk Records which is owned by Dallon and his wife Breezy Weekes.
The band’s former members, drummer Matt Glass and guitarist Michael Gross, were both tagged in the Instagram post. The video tells fans to ‘Please Standby’ for an announcement on January 01, 2025. Watch the video below: ‘Happiest Nuclear Winter’ contains the song ‘A Letter’, which was later re-recorded for iDKHOW’s second album ‘Gloom Division’.
Dallon told us about working on that new version of the song as part of his The Album Story interview , saying “I had always imagined this bit where the audience harmonizes and does this sort of choir bit. And when I was playing with The Brobecks, we were never performing for that many people to do it properly. So when the iDKHOW shows that we were playing began to have enough people, I thought that maybe this idea that I’ve had for 10 plus years can finally come to be.
So we started doing it and it worked. It was beautiful. And whatever the song had been written about beforehand became less important.
The song became more about sharing this moment with the audience. Now, a roomful of strangers, regardless of whatever kind of differences you may have, at least for this moment, right now, we’re going to share this and we’re going to harmonize together and we’re going to work together. And to me, that’s a really beautiful thing.
So that’s what I love about it. That’s why we play it, and that’s why I wanted to put it on the record – to give it a proper chance.” ‘GLOOM DIVISION’ is included in our list of the Top 24 Albums Of 2024 which you can read in full here .
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