SUNNSETTER Releases New Single & Bonus Tracks In Celebration Of New Album, The best that I can be.
Sunnsetter (aka Andrew McLeod), the accomplished and prolific multi-instrumentalist, composer, and mixing engineer, released their new album, The best that I can be. (their debut album with Paper Bag Records) in March of this year. Sunnsetter released a digital single of bonus tracks, “It gets better” and “The best that I can be.” which continues the musical journey started with their latest record as the vinyl full-length is also out now.
There is a direct referencing of their album title, in one of the new bonus tracks, both of which were intended to read as a sentence or a mission statement. Mostly, both acknowledge the process of making the record, which allowed Andrew to ultimately arrive at the personal space the album title suggests.
“Both of these tracks were written and recorded during the time of completing my newest album ‘The best that I can be’. In the original track list, when I was still working out what the album was going to be, both of these songs (and a few others) were included, and the one song is even the title track for the album. But at some point my vision for the project changed, and I felt that song in particular just felt maybe too ‘dark’ for what I really wanted to purvey. So in haste I took it off, but once the album came out I realized that I liked the song, and especially enjoy playing it live, so it only made sense to put it out as a companion to the album, because to try and put it on another release wouldn’t have made any sense to me!”
“The song ‘It gets better’ really only had to be removed from the album because it was being pressed to vinyl and it just made it too long! So I removed the song, but I realized again that It only made sense in the context of this project. This song is about the desire to change your behaviour, having to tell yourself that It can get better even when you feel the same over and over.”