BIOGRAPHY
"Heavy Feels"
Rooted in the high deserts of New Mexico, Future Scars is a tender, frenzied monsoon of sound. With lyrically-focused songs that rise and fall between impassioned roars and soft confessions, they create a dramatic, emotionally turbulent musical landscape for the members’ diverse influences to converge.
While the band’s genre could be described as “part” everything—metal, post-rock, weird-rock, prog, indie—their sound resists labeling, which allows the listener to fully sink into their unfamiliar yet compelling euphonic world.
Band members Eliza Lutz (guitar, vocals), Paul Wagner (bass), Dylan Blanchard (keys), and Dylan McDowell (drums) delve deeper deeper than ever into their dynamic and contrasting soundscape on the group’s sophomore album, Half Life, out on August 18th. While incorporating sounds more akin to art-rock, jangle-pop, and indie-rock at first glance, Half Life simultaneously doubles down on the group’s love for progressive rock, doom metal, and the expression of feelings too big to be contained. The resulting record is both more understated and nuanced than its predecessor Harrow, while still showcasing the massive swings from subtle and soft to enormous and maximal.
Half Life is also the first album to feature Dylan McDowell on drums and percussion, whose penchant for strong dynamics and unique phrasing is evident in both the record and the band’s live performances. He became a full time member even before the release of the band’s debut LP Harrow, performing and touring extensively with the group in 2019.
During that time and in the years leading up to now, the band members dealt with many overwhelming events in their lives, both beautiful and terrible, global and personal. All of those things feed into what lyricist, vocalist, and guitarist Eliza Lutz brings to bear within their poetry and performance on this new album. While the music and emotional content was a full collaboration between the four members, the lyrics are Eliza’s, who sings of things deeply personal to their journey that also intersect universally with the collective grief of our times.
Additionally the influence of bassist and vocalist Paul Wanger is more evident than ever on Half Life, as his bass lines, melodies, and countermelodies form the foundation of the wide-ranging arrangements. The pallet of sounds is further expanded upon by keyboardist Dylan Blanchard, whose love for lush, analogue, and often unusual electric pianos, organs, and synthesizers is evident throughout the record.
Accompanying the album, which will be available digitally and on cassette, are relief prints by Eliza Lutz for each track. These compose the digital artwork and are also available as limited edition prints.
Half Life will be released on Matron Records August 18th. Record release parties will be held at Ghost in Santa Fe on August 19 and at La Chancla in Albuquerque on August 25.