Exclusive track premiere of ‘Grow Old’ by Andy Frasco & The U.N., taken from the forthcoming LP, ‘Wash, Rinse, Repeat.’, due April 8th via his own label, Fun Machine Records.

“‘Grow Old’ is a song about not giving up on love before it even has a chance to bloom. We seem to run away from love when the going gets tough, but what I’m realizing as I get older is that true love doesn’t just come without effort. It takes work, and it takes going through the full cycle of emotions to really let that love blossom like a flower”.

Continuing on the album, he said: “This album means a lot to me because it sparked new ideas of what life is about. I’ve been on tour for so long that I have never been in my house for this long ever. I got sad, I got confused, I got existential because all these feelings were new. Normally I can run away to the next town, see new things and distract myself if I’m feeling sad or depleted. But during this pandemic I really had to stay at home, live with the demons in my head and figure them out myself. Through this, I found who I am and what I like a little more as I’m getting older. I’m just trying to be friends with my brain again”.

‘Wash, Rinse, Repeat.’ is produced by Chris Carraba (Dashboard Confessional), Nathaniel Motte (3oh!3), Kenny Carkeet (AWOLNATION), Eric Krasno (Ledisi, Tedeschi Trucks Band), and Justin Osborne (Susto). The album is available for pre-order on Andy’s website.

The album consists of 12 songs that span Frasco’s experience as a musician — and a man. There’s the strummy ballad ‘Grow Old’, about finding love for more than a weekend and being ready for it when it shows up at your door. The tongue-in-cheek stomper ‘Dancin’ Around My Grave’ (written with Charleston bands Susto and Doom Flamingo) shows Frasco planning his own funeral if he were to die young — accompanied by a video depicting a Lakers-themed service (he’s a life-long fan). “A lot of people really related to that song and that’s helped me get over the hump during the pandemic”, he says. The rocking title track ‘Wash, Rinse, Repeat’, also touches on the pandemic — and the joy we’ll all feel when the world is finally back. Then there’s ‘Spill the Beans’, a Western-tinged track about being honest about your addictions. “It’s a song about not suppressing your addiction so you can get through ’em and recover through ’em,” he says.

Additionally, Frasco recently scored ‘The Great Depresh,’ an HBO documentary about Gary Gulman exploring the comic’s struggles with depression that was produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Mike Bonfiglio).

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