Buffalo Summer - Second Sun Album Release May May

Giant Welsh rockers will release their “Second Sun” album on May 20th

Big, bluesy, heavy and curvy, Southern Welsh rockers Buffalo Summer are the latest ‘future legends’ to sign with UDR Records, the home of legends. Proudly proclaiming that they ‘bring the soul from the coal’, Buffalo Summer bristle with the warm, rich old-school tones of groups such as Led Zeppelin, The Black Crowes, Jack White and Deep Purple, and their reputation as one of the most electric new live rock bands in Europe has seen them share gigs with the likes of Duff McKagan, Ugly Kid Joe, Soundgarden and Black Sabbath.

Their new album Second Sun, a bubbling-fresh selection of songs produced by Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, REM, Queens of The Stone Age, Walking Papers) will be released on UDR Records on May 20th

Andrew Hunt:Vocals

Jonny Williams:Guitar

Darren King:Bass

Gareth Hunt:Drums

Track by track:

1.) Money - It looks at how life is, being in a band and making music for all the right reasons. Unfortunately, money is a necessary part of life and the lyrics look at the paradox of following your dreams while struggling to make ends meet.

2.) Heartbreakin' Floorshakin' - A song about a beautiful woman that shakes the world your living in. You know she's top quality in every department so you're going to have to live by her rules to make it count.

3.) Make You Mine - A feel good summertime song about a person in your life that makes the world a brighter place to be.

4.) Neverend - A song about being in a dark place but reaching for the light. Again, this is a track that talks about following your dreams through all the up's and down's. The determination and drive of your own mind, to be a leader and not to follow.

5.) As High As The Pines - Discusses the terrible way in which Native Americans were stripped of their lands and culture by the European invasion. It also looks at how greedy and consumer driven we are in the western world compared to how the Native Indians lived off the land and took just what they needed.

6.) Light of The Sun - This was inspired by two key moments. Firstly my grandfather lost a brother in each of the world wars and they are both buried in war cemeteries in France and Belgium respectively. When we were touring and driving through France I saw some of these cemeteries at the side of the road and it was something that really touched a nerve. It puts into perspective what people went through and how fortunate we are today because of them. We live in a time where people are so self obsessed and I think people who fought in those two world wars are cut from a different cloth than us. Stronger and more respectful. You can see the war medals which I photographed for the album art work. It's definitely the most meaningful and potent lyric on the album.

7.) Levitate - This is a song dedicated to anyone who has ever suffered with depression or mental illness. It's basically about your mind being your own worst enemy and being in a vicious circle that's hard to break. Fear can stop you living your life as you want to. It can be hell.

8.) Into Your Head - Consumerism and propaganda is everywhere. We are programmed to conform and abide to the big machine. Being from a fairly rural place myself I often feel like an ant in giant cities where everything is moving so quickly and bowing down to the almighty dollar. There's got to be more to life.

9.) Little Charles - A story about a person we know that ended up on the wrong side of the tracks and behind prison bars. A story of how substance abuse can take you on a very different path in life.

10.) Priscilla - On the first album we had a track called Typhoid Mary and we started joking one day in a local pub, about how we should get a girl's name into a song title on every album we do. By chance there was a picture hanging on the wall by the artist Florence Gravier. She was called Priscilla and that was that. We had our song title. The caption on the photograph was "Modest, simple and sweet" and that basically became the chorus of the song and I wrote the rest of the story around that.

11.) Bird On A Wire - This is a pro environmental song and it was something close to home that triggered it. The expansion of urban sprawl onto green areas which should have been under protection is pretty hard to take. It is a theme that is global and it's something that really bothers me. Basically, the big corporations are happy to exploit and rape the natural landscape all in the name of "progress." It's basically just to fuel the economy and line their own pockets. We are the only species on the planet that are hell bent on destroying it. If it was an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, then humans surely deserve the same fate in the long run because we take and don't give back.

12.) Water To Wine - A song about my childhood. I would say I was probably born into the last generation who lived their childhood outside playing sports and interacting with the natural world. Before mobile phones and home computers. Before technology took over the world and took a lot of the innocence away. It may sound nostalgic or viewing the past through rose tinted glasses but it really was the truth. It was the simple thing's in life that made it great. Camping in the woods around a bonfire, climbing the mountain's, swimming in the river's, kicking a football around the street and knowing when the street light's came on it was time to go home. Beautiful!

Enjoy!

VJ Zakk-E

NB: All photos courtesy of respective Artists and copyrights held with respective photographers