(LP) FIDLAR- Surviving The Dream

January 10th, 2025

Standard Black Vinyl

SURVIVING THE DREAM is FIDLAR’s long-awaited fourth studio LP and first in over five years. Self-produced and self-recorded at Balboa Recording Studio in East LA, SURVIVING THE DREAM is many things for the Southern California trio comprised of Zac Carper, Max Kuehn, and Brandon Schwartzel. An embrace of their DIY roots. A reaction to the youthful kinetic energy packed into rooms at their recent live shows. A reckoning with aging and evolving. Finding themselves faced with existential downtime several years ago – brought on by a planned hiatus that was incidentally prolonged by the pandemic – FIDLAR returned feeling an odd discombobulation. In some ways everything was the same; and in others, everything was completely different. As a band whose identity has forever been tethered to getting fucked up, their attitude toward it has changed. Partly that’s because they’re older now, and partly because Carper was recently diagnosed with bi-polar disorder; something that has helped him make sense of how he acted and felt at certain times in the past, especially when making music. Fucked up, reckless, fun-loving and wild, the record is both a reminiscence of their beginnings and a testament to what they’ve become.

TRACKLIST:

1. Fix Me
2. Low
3. Sad Kids
4. Down N out
5. Orange County
6. Break Your Heart
7. Get off My Wave
8. Change
9. Making Shit Up
10. Dog House
11. I Don't Want to Do This
12. Nudge
13. Hurt