In other words, these songs contain turmoil, too. “Old As I” is the first single off of “Phase 2” - “the after-spray of the shock,” Stokes says. “Phase 1,” which came out in October, aimed to capture the rupture and reckoning brought on by catastrophic change. The pair decided to channel that sense of upheaval into the music. “It was just a big shift for us as a band, a big shift for us as a country,” Stokes says. Now Stokes and drummer Brad Corrigan had to find a way forward alone. But through all that, the lineup remained the same. The Boston band had weathered change before, from its peak during the jam-band boom of the late ‘90s to its fall from mainstream popularity and a long period of dormancy. Then, two years later, one of Dispatch’s founding members, Pete Francis, faced a mental health crisis and decided to leave the group. Trumps’s election in 2016 was “a huge blow,” Stokes says. The album was inspired by events both political and personal. The cycle, which concludes sometime next year, loosely traces the emotional fallout from life-altering events, from shock to despair to hope. “As Old As I” is the first single in the second phase of Dispatch’s current project: a yet-to-be-named album that will be released in several parts over the course of many months.
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Summer Tour 2022 Tee 30 DISPATCH Beanie 24.99 Break Our Fall T-Shirt 29.99 Silent Steeples Double LP / Black 34.99 Break Our Fall Deluxe Vinyl 34.99 Sold out Break Our Fall CD 12.99 Sold out Break Our Fall - Digital Download 9. “You gave me your blessing to keep you alive.” Dispatch Official Storefront 'You Dont Know Dispatch' Tee 30 One Fell Swoop Logo Tee 30 Dispatch & O.A.R. “I hear you lash out in your sleep/ A bullet gone astray,” Stokes sings. “As Old As I” articulates that pledge, even as it exposes, with bittersweet clarity, the impossibility of any such guarantee. “Whether it's our wife or our children or anyone who's younger than us that's in our family, there's kind of this unspoken promise that we’re there to help them live longer than we ,” Stokes says.
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