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New Beginnings
New Beginnings

o let’s backtrack. After the touring because now I can’t stop making music, which I am as a person and what I’m afraid of, in the
Scycle of previous album, ‘Legendary’, is interesting. But there was a point last year last year or so, and I think it was a really won-
The Summer Set took time off. Brian started where I just didn’t want to make music any derful year, because I think it helped shape the
working on songs for the follow-up album – but more. way this album turned out.”
now reveals that he had nothing genuine to “We took a long time off making this We ask what he’s afraid of. What fears
say. He was told that songs he’d written album… and last year was a year of doing a does he have? He replies, “Taking even the
weren’t ‘hits’ and so naturally pressurized him- lot of, I guess, soul-searching and a lot of trav- band out of it, my fears as a person are, I
self to try and write some. He ran away, he elling to find out, who am I now, at 26, versus guess… sorry, I’m going to get very Ennea-
went travelling, he soul-searched. He tells who I was when we started this. Am I better or gram on this for a second, but I think my fears
Black Velvet, “There was a point last year worse off than when we started and what hap- as an individual involve just never being satis-
where I was just frustrated with making music, pens next? And I think it was a lot of searching fied or just being trapped, or feeling that certain
which was really weird when I look at it now and I think I figured out a lot about myself, who freedoms are being taken away from me and

THE SUMMER SET