Fast Romantics Share New Single “Pick It Up”; Announce Upcoming LP
After having their recording session in California cut short due to COIVD-19, Toronto indie rock group Fast Romantics returned home frustrated and motivated. With a bounty of songs, the six-piece grabbed hold of the situation and have announced their new record Pick It Up will be released on August 6th – the first of two records they were able to put together since coming back to Toronto in their respective apartments.
The limiting, claustrophobic climate of quarantine was not lost on the band, and instead, it served as a catalyst to release new music. Their new single and title track “Pick It Up” is a spirited rock ballad rooted in the cognitive behaviour therapy idea of changing things to cope. As a lifelong suffer of chronic depression and anxiety, frontman Matt Angus was inspired to write “Pick It Up” as an ode to his mother.
“At some tipping point, I forced myself to sit at the piano, and this childhood memory of my mother came flooding in”, Angus shares. “My mother is an all-powerful, unstoppable force of nature. She has more energy than an Olympic sprinter, she fights through anything that comes her way, and she’s been through some tough shit in her life. When I was a kid, I’d oscillate similarly as I do now between bouts of confident, prolific creativity and unstoppable malaise. If in one of those low phases as a fourteen-year-old I’d be lying on the couch hypnotized by a television for too long, she’d inevitably be there, telling me to pick myself up and do something useful. But all grown up, hearing that voice in my head that morning at the piano, it all at once snapped me out of it.”
Angus’ rugged voice rings through an anthemic chorus of “Pick it up / nothing’s going to happen if you’re broken down all day”, finding the gusto to spread the inspiration and motivation to give the day value.
Watch the song’s video below, featuring clips from Toronto, live shows, and their scattered apartments. You can pre-order Pick It Up HERE.
