True Brew Track-by-track – by Nikola Sarcevic
“The new songs are about what it´s like living in today´s society in the western world, with a very focused and developed consumer and capitalistic society. It´s a world where people are acting almost as programmed robots living and behaving in a very self-centered manner, where the shopping of new things for oneself seems to be the biggest thrill in life. It´s easy to become egocentric today, and even if you are critical to the way we´re living our lives today it´s very hard to go against it, since we´re all being forced in the same direction by the massive power of the system. These new songs are reflections of this dilemma that I think a lot of people experience today.”
1. Egocentric Man
“Musically, it’s very much inspired by Bad Religion. Just like the title. They started their album Against The Grain with ‘Modern Man’ so it seemed natural and cool to have ‘Egocentric Man’ as the first track of True Brew. It´s about nationalism.”
2. Chameleon
“One of not so many power pop songs on the album, this song was actually meant to be a one of my solo songs when it was first written, but then we dressed it up into a punk rock song.”
3. Autopilot Mode
This song is like a hybrid between skate punk and almost rap metal, with the fast punky verse and the heavier chorus. It´s definitely something different and a kind of song we haven´t done before, I wrote the song but Mathias did a great job producing it, coming up with the rhythm change and the drum patterns etc.”
4. Bring Me Home
“This is one of two songs that Mathias wrote by himself completely, both the music and lyrics. It will be our first real single for radio and is probably the poppiest song off the album.”
5. Sense & Sensibility
“It’s the first song we let people hear off the album. A kind of angry song that has an attitude showing the direction of the new album, the lyrics are talking about the growing nationalism and different ways to relate to this phenomenon.”
6. True Brew
“The title track – It has a classic Millecolin and punk rock topic: the struggle of being true to yourself and being in control of who you are and where you want to go and make of life, and not making decisions based on what the greater society wants you to be and do. The title is also a wink to Madonna´s True Blue and also to the fact that we love beer and that I´m actually brewing my own beer.”
7. Perfection Is Boring
“A song about appreciating what you already have in life and saying to yourself that you are ok the way you are and not always aiming too hard for the unreachable.”
8. Wall Of Doubt
“This is the first piano intro ever in the bands history, I think. There are references to some of my favorite cartoons in the lyrics, and it’s one of my better singing performances on the album, if I could rate myself.”
9. Something I would Die For
“This is the only song on the album where Mathias and I wrote the song on the spot together in the same room. He had the guitar riff and the verse, and I came up with the chorus. It´s stands out a bit on the album being a kind of melancholy, emotional power pop song, not too far away from a band like Samiam, which we like a lot.”
10. Silent Suicide
“Silent Suicide is the shortest song ever in Millencolin’s history, if you don´t count the song ‘Ace Frehley’ from Life on a Plate. It was written by Mathias all alone and has a nice angry attitude.”
11. Man Of 1000 Tics
“A big wink to Gene Simmons and his solo song ‘Man of 1000 Faces’, which is from an album I like a lot. It’s maybe the only song on the album that has a chunk of humor in the lyrics too.”
12. Mr. Fake Believe
“Also a wink and homage to the same person, Gene Simmons, and his solo song off the same solo album, ‘Mr. Make Believe’ which is an amazing song where Gene really shows his strong Beatles influences and his talents as a singer and songwriter. Ironically (with Gene being a sober guy) this Millenocolin song is about alcohol.”
13. Believe In John
“Speaking of The Beatles, this is a tribute and honor to one of our big influences, John Lennon and what he stood for. Just like ‘All You Need Is Love’ was the last song off The Magical Mystery Tour, this one is ending our album. This song was about to go on to my solo album, Nikola & Fattiglapparna, in 2010 but somehow we didn´t get it right and It got rejected.”
Released April 28, 2015
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