New Album OUTERSTELLAR
OUT FEBRUARY 20
Michael Monroe releases the irresistibly anthemic second single ‘Disconnected’ from forthcoming new studio album Outerstellar, set for release on February 20th via Silver Lining Music. For pre-orders go to this location.
‘Disconnected’ speaks of something that Michael Monroe feels passionately about: that live music is a rare and vital space for people to find each other in the moment.
“Technology was supposed to bring people closer together, when, in fact, people are more disconnected than ever. They’re looking at their phones and their computers and downloading stuff” comments Michael Monroe. “And, you know, the Internet can’t take away the experience of being at a live show. You’re on stage, and you communicate with the audience who are there, in that moment. That’s where the magic really happens, and absolutely no program or device or computer can reproduce that!”
The new album Outerstellar, is an experience as much as a collection of great songs, a sweet smelling, leathery, glitter-shimmered, sweat-soaked raunch and punch wrapped in one of the great voices in rock ‘n’ roll. The harmonies and vibes roll effortlessly in silk scarves, lounging in leather pants with liquor and a smile on a beat-up sofa in those small AM hours. And the sheer attitude, which screams carefree (not careless!) confidence (not arrogance!), a cocksure sense of self-bathed in the sheer joy of playing real rock ‘n’ roll the right way.
The recently released first video and single, ‘Rockin’ Horse’, is a defiant blast against critics and judges and comes with one of the craziest Michael Monroe videos you’ve ever seen. “I am who I am and I’m not going to edit myself for your benefit,” Michael says unequivocally for anyone who might doubt that fact.
DISCONNECTED Lyrics:
Welcome to the reception
Broadcasting our deceptions
We celebrate it all
We celebrate it all
A technicolour-coated bad dream
Borne out into the slipstream
We celebrate it all
We celebrate the fall
Cause there ain’t no heart in the static age
There ain’t no soul on the empty stage
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected
There ain’t no love on a TV screen
There ain’t no match for the gasoline
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected
An empty promise of attraction
But no real interaction
We climb and then we fall
We climb and then we fall
A bad feeling incubator
An unreliable narrator
We climb and then we fall
And we celebrate it all
Cause there ain’t no heart in the static age
There ain’t no soul on the empty stage
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected
There ain’t no love on a TV screen
There ain’t no match for the gasoline
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected
Cold lies in paradise
But that world don’t fit
There’s years and miles in every song
And I’m still not fakin’ it!
Cause there ain’t no heart in the static age
There ain’t no soul on the empty stage
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected
There ain’t no love on a TV screen
There ain’t no match for the gasoline
It ain’t what you expected
We’re all just disconnected