![]() She ran a high fever at the office, so they sent her to the emergency room.” I was struck with a terribly hard decision to make. My brother called me to tell me, “Mom had a doctor’s appointment. She was the most supportive mother you could ask for. My goodbye with her was very brief…something like “OK, I’ll see you in a couple of days.” She had been on a lot of morphine during my visit, so she was fading in and out and said, “You’d better go.” That was the last thing she said to me. I got to spend a couple of days with my mom before flying out to play The Fest. The Fest in Gainesville, Florida, has provided Touché Amoré a place to play multiple times over the last eight years, so it felt like the best way to end that year of touring we had just been in Japan and Korea the week before. I’ll be a phone call away and if anything gets bad, you can come home.” She’d say things like, “What would you do if you stayed home? You’d come hang out with me for a few hours a day…then what? Go do what you love. My mom had been sick with breast cancer that had metastasized over a year to become stage four terminal cancer. Being away on tour was something I struggled with, but she encouraged me to do it. It was Halloween 2014 and my band Touché Amoré had just played our final show for the year. The grab bag of emotions was a big part of that. Here’s what he’s been listening to.The night that I got the call that my mother had died was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. To celebrate the new album, we asked Bolm to pick some of his favorite releases on Bandcamp right now. It’s such a cool way to show our appreciation to these worlds that get to exist around us.” He laughs, and adds: “and also the flex of it, to be honest.” On the same record being produced by Ross Robinson, we can have Julien Baker and Andy Hull sing on it, as well as Justice from Trapped Under Ice. I figure there’s a really cool way to push that further. “For instance, we can do a tour with Converge and then go right into a tour with Circa Survive, and it never feels weird we can exist in all those different genres. “If I had to pick the thing I’m most proud of with this band, it’s that we’ve always been able to exist in a lot of different worlds,” Bolm says. Produced by famed hard rock board wizard Ross Robinson (Korn, Blood Brothers, Glassjaw) and featuring appearances by Julien Baker, Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra, Justice Tripp of Trapped Under Ice, and more, it’s the group’s most uplifting, ambitious release to date, and a monument to the protean qualities that make them so special. Touché Amoré’s latest album, Lament, is a reflection on these mixed feelings, but with an eye-and ear-fixed on the silver lining. I’ve dealt with that guilt of understanding why people are sharing these things with me, appreciating the confidence it takes to go up and express these things to a stranger, but it’s a tough pill to swallow for me to hear that day in, day out.” I would likely do the same thing in a lot of people’s situations if I was emotionally attached to a record that said the things I wasn’t able to say you get that sense that you’re not alone in your feelings. “It’s one of those things that I’ve struggled with, because I understand why it happens. “I sometimes go out of my way to avoid looking at DMs and things like that,” Bolm admits over the phone. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track
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