Gab De La Vega schwenkt mit der Single Preaching To The Choir noch einmal mehr in Richtung seiner Wurzeln und zeigt uns einen wirklich kurzweiligen Punkrock-Track.
Dieser ist nach Off My Chest und Northern Lights die dritte Single vom kommenden Album Life Burns, welches am 1. März via SBÄM veröffentlicht werden wird.
Gab De La Vega zum Track:
Preaching To The Choir is a punk song. Period. I felt the urge the express myself in a very familiar language, one I learned many years ago and that stuck to me, that shaped me and became a part of me.
It feels great to be able to take my music in any direction I want, explore my songwriting freely and then go back to my roots and feel so much at ease.
Preaching To The Choir is a punk song from the perspective of someone who grew up in the punk and hardcore community, who learned so much from it, but now sees that sometimes things don’t work out as they are supposed to. Things that once were those we criticized in the “outer world” become standard even in our community, which is far for being flawless, but still needs and deserves respect, dedication and honest commitment to keep punk rock the positive force for a change in the world we grew up with. It is here and now, it’s alive, it’s a minor but yet significant threat to a world that suffocates creativity, freedom of expression and the importance of creating bonds, bridges between people. The effectiveness of the punk message is wasted if it’s self-referential. It becomes a re-enactment, the ceremony of a dying religion. The strength of punk was, has been, and hopefully always will be its capacity to create strong bonds within its community and on the other hand project to the heart of society, to shake it, to wake it up and try to make it better.
This song is about this.
