For All The World

Description

For All The World, the twenty-fifth album by the band The Black Watch, and their very first double album, is a work that is both dark and pop, luminous and melancholic, brilliantly exploring several major universal themes: death and sex, memory, grief, hope, and love. It is undoubtedly the most ambitious and moving album by the iconic Los Angeles band, since its formation in 1988 in Santa Barbara by John Andrew Fredrick, singer, novelist, and former English professor, inspired after seeing an Anglo-Canadian band called The Lucy Show perform in front of a dozen people in his hometown. After recording Weird Rooms in 2024 with producer Misha Bullock and Fredrick's son, Chandler, in Bullock's studio in Austin, Texas, the founder of TBW wanted to repeat the experience — this time with, in his view, more direct tracks featuring classic psych/jangle/shoegaze accents. The result, though artistically satisfying, sparked in John the desire to compose new songs, in reaction to those he had brought from Los Angeles to Texas.