the title track itself is "just about emptiness and the feeling that things that are supposed to make us happy don't." So the track's animated video, premiering exclusively below, taps into that angst by depicting a search for answers in all the wrong places.
"I had this idea about how all these boxes start showing up at a guy's house and he's sitting on perpetual hold with customer service to tell them he didn't order all that stuff," says singer-guitarist Miles Zuniga, who voices the refrain "Is this the way out? I don't want to spend my life just chasing money" throughout the song.
"I know that's not a new or even original idea, but the older I get and the more I see, I understand more and more how true that is.", due out Oct.
"Steve's a little older than us," Zuniga says, "so we were just like, 'You make the decisions' and let him pick the songs and do what he felt was best. We had already recorded some things and liked them and just kept 'em and had us build from there."which was Fastball's first set of new music in eight years.
"The band was almost like a car up on blocks in someone's yard for awhile," Zuniga acknowledges. "We had no manager, no booking agent...And we finally realized that if we're gonna make more records now's the time. If you let it go too long it's going to be incredibly hard to come back together again. So right now we're back at it, and we just want to make Fastball records that are quintessentially us.