Lumineers Call New Record “Timeless”

The Lumineers’ new album is NOT a “Covid-19 album,” even though it kind of was.

In a new interview, founding member Wesley Schultz said the band’s fourth and newest project, “Brightside,” was, “It’s own thing.”

He explained, “We kept saying it was like the post-COVID-19 record.  Part of the goal of the record, at least subconsciously, is to try to write an album that describes the pain without getting so caught in the weeds in using the words ‘quarantine’ or ‘pandemic.’ It was bigger than that.”

He went on to say, “In a lot of ways, we were trying to make a record that we’d want to hear in 10 years, and it would still make sense. I started to realize that a lot of the artists who I really love from the late ’60s to mid-’70s, they were pushing off of a lot of social unrest like Vietnam. There are a lot of things that I don’t know personally, but that I felt through the music. Instead of being isolated to a few countries, this is the whole world now. It’s a very strange, relatable thing.”

What album from ten years ago still makes sense to you?

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