Grandson - Death Of An Optimist - Import CD

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Grandson

Description:

With these words, grandson is an alternative singer/songwriter whose style has garnered overwhelming sympathy from the youth of his generation. Light and shadow, black and white, optimism and pessimism, light pop and heavy sound - the long-awaited debut album "DEATH OF AN OPTIMIST" was completed by mixing and opposing various conflicting elements. 2020's musical activist Here is the latest statement from the musical activists of the 2020s. Born in the U.S., raised in Canada, and currently based in Los Angeles, alternative singer/songwriter grandson is a musician who has been working on a new album, DEATH OF AN OPTIMIST, for over a decade. He is an activist and artist who expresses through his music his own feelings of being overwhelmed by the responsibility to "do the right thing as a human being," plagued by endless anxiety, fear, enlightenment, and questions swirling around in his head. His music and message resonate with young people of his generation, and he is gaining enthusiastic fans one after another. He is not only an artist who expresses himself through his words and music, but also an activist who founded the "XX Resistance Fund" to support activists who do not have a large platform to raise their voices for social activism. AN OPTIMIST", his long-awaited debut album. Jordan Benjamin, aka grandson, grew up in a radical musical family.From Tribe Called Quest to Bill Withers, he grew up listening to and being influenced by a wide range of music from rock and roll to hiphop to electro and other eras and genres, and is trying to bring a new context to the modern rock sound. After his 2017 single "Blood//Water" garnered over 182 million plays on Spotify and was certified as a gold single in the US and a platinum single in Canada, he announced his signing to FUELED BY RAMEN in April 2018. He has since released a trilogy of EPs, MODERN TRAGEDY EP TRILOGY, between 2018 and 2019, and has collaborated with contemporaries such as Dillon Francis, K.Flay, KennyHoopla and Oliver Tree. He was also a featured artist on Mike Shinoda's "Running From My Shadow" on his solo album "POST TRAUMATIC" and has toured with artists such as Hobo Johnson, Nothing But Thieves, Smashing He also toured with artists such as Hobo Johnson, Nothing But Thieves, and Smashing Pumpkins. (1/2)

Tracklisting:

1.Death of an Optimist // Intro
2.In Over My Head
3.Identity
4.Left Behind
5.Dirty
6.The Ballad of G and X // Interlude
7.We Did It
8.WW3
9.Riptide
10.Pain Shopping
11.Drop Dead
12.Welcome to Paradise // Outro