“ We chase other muses in other venues, but yes, HANL is our friendship manifest in art,” he adds. Tim constantly challenges my preconceptions about writing music, and it’s never not fun.” “I feel best when we have a project to work on, when we’re planning something, when I can daydream about how it will turn out. “ For me, it’s as much my relationship with Tim, and with the process we use to create music, than it is with any specific genre,” Barrett explains about what keeps him coming back after all this time. ![]() Macuga and collaborator Dan Barrett explain that their music reflects their shared personal commitment to the artistic collaboration of their friendship as exemplified in Have A Nice Life, which at this point has been active for almost two decades. Their new album feels like a subtle celebration of life, or at least musical ambition, firmly planted in that musically expressed, familiar anxiety. The band’s Tim Macuga explains the album’s themes as resting in “a nxiety, from the global, to the interpersonal, then simply personal level.” Strikingly, they make their album’s exploration of this unsettling territory captivating, thereby elevating their’s music’s pieces into an ambitious new vision. The sought after post-punk duo Have A Nice Life provide a musical window into anxiety, depression, and the mixture of the two where boundaries become irrelevant on their aptly named new record Sea of Worry.
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