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| The Muffs' No Holiday album – out October 18th – was completed just before Kim Shattuck passed away. |
Just having completed work on The Muffs' No Holiday (Omnivore) album – their first in five years – the group's founding singer/songwriter Kim Shattuck sadly passed away on October 2 from complications related to her battle with ALS.
About the album, Kim explained in a press release for Omnivore Recordings, “I wrote the songs between 1991 and 2017. We decided to have a long album and use songs that had been in my arsenal but were weeded out for super concise albums. They were all great songs and we didn’t want them to go to waste. No way!”
No Holiday really is a celebration of everything The Muffs was about. Says bassist Ronnie Barnett: “I think this new album represents the depth of our band like none of our others. It could have easily been aptly called The Many Moods Of The Muffs. All of our strengths: melody, big rock, sweetness, nastiness… All on display and readily apparent. The three of us, after all these years, are a family. The love between us is well represented here. We laid it all out there on this one.”
No Holiday contains 18 tracks on CD, Digital, and a 2-LP set (with laser-etched fourth side). Drummer Roy McDonald: “I think No Holiday is the most unique album we’ve ever made. 18 songs that run the spectrum from full blown productions to intimate home recordings. This was a labor of love for us and I think that comes out in the record. We wanted to create something lasting and special. I, for one, couldn’t be happier with the results.”
Listen to "A Lovely Day Boo Hoo" below. You can pre-order a copy of The Muffs' No Holiday album directly from Omnivore right here.
The Muffs - No Holiday
That's For Me
Down Down Down
No Holiday
Earth Below Me
A Lovely Day Boo Hoo
Late and Sorry
The Best
Pollyanna
Sick Of This World
To That Funny Place
You Talk and You Talk
Happier Just Being With You
Lucky Charm
On My Own
Too Awake
Insane
The Kids Have All Gone Away
Sky
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