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Taylor, Sam (October 27, 2023). "The Gaslight Anthem Are Celebrating Their Album Release with a New Video for 'Spider Bites' ". Dork . Retrieved October 30, 2023. The Sailor Jerry Podcast Ep. 53 — Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem)" . Retrieved August 16, 2023– via YouTube. One thing that did change during The Gaslight Anthem’s long absence was that the group’s members – Fallon, Rosamilia, bassist Alex Levine and drummer Benny Horowitz – all passed 40. It suits them. If the early Gaslight Anthem albums were roughly equally freighted with a fear of getting older and a fear of not living that long, History Books is where they grapple with the prospect that middle age is at once more and less terrifying than their twenty and thirty-something selves imagined.

That was probably inspired by coming out of that really long 20-year, 30-year period of feeling mentally disconnected from the universe, and feeling like, ‘Why is every day so hard? This is terrible.’ And going to therapy and getting medication, I was then reflecting a little bit on that and going, ‘Man, if I had the things that I have now, and the way that I feel now, and the life that I have now, I’d be young so much better!’ Because I would have enjoyed it, is what the real meaning is. I don’t think that I really enjoyed growing up, because I was struggling the whole time.” You’ve already released four singles, but what are some of the other songs that you feel best capture the spirit of History Books? Ultratop.be – The Gaslight Anthem – History Books" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 5, 2023. Walton, Ed (October 25, 2023). "ALBUM REVIEW: History Books – The Gaslight Anthem". Distorted Sound . Retrieved October 28, 2023.

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Fallon's experiences with therapy and medication influenced the album's direction and themes. He highlighted "Positive Charge", the first song he wrote for the record, as "a message of joy to ourselves and to our audience" about "looking at the things you've come through and feeling like you want to go ahead with an open heart toward the future, believing that the best years are not behind any of us and the good we have is worth something." [14] a b History Books (album liner notes). The Gaslight Anthem. Thirty Tigers / Rich Mahogany Recordings. 2023. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

The LP delves into “everything from mortality to mental illness to the more precarious dimensions of human connection” throughout, and “achieves the tremendous feat of hitting every raw nerve while endlessly inspiring wildly triumphant singing-along”.Michigan, 1975 9/16/23 Grand Rapids, MI (song premiere)" ". September 18, 2023 . Retrieved October 3, 2023– via YouTube. Mueller, Andrew (October 27, 2023). "The Gaslight Anthem – History Books". Uncut . Retrieved October 29, 2023.

The Gaslight Anthem Announce 2024 UK/European Tour, Plus 2000Trees Headline Set". October 3, 2023 . Retrieved October 3, 2023– via YouTube. Everybody says these words and they seem to like mean nothing but it really does feel like a new beginning,” he adds. “And not a new beginning that doesn’t want to be part of the past, either. It’s a new beginning that is like willing to take the past with it, and say, ‘Yeah, that was awesome then, and it is going to be awesome now, too.”

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Lugen, Mikala (March 28, 2022). "The Gaslight Anthem Announce First Headlining World Tour in Four Years". Volume Utah . Retrieved October 18, 2022. I think everything is better,” begins Brian Fallon, when asked to compare the last time The Gaslight Anthem released an album to now. It’s a simple answer, but an emphatic one. “ Everything!” Following the conclusion of the touring cycle for their previous album, Get Hurt, at Reading Festival on August 30, 2015, [7] the Gaslight Anthem entered an indefinite hiatus, aside from a short tour in 2018 celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2008 album The '59 Sound, [8] with the band members pursuing new projects and solo careers. In an interview with Kerrang, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Brian Fallon described the themes behind “History Books”:

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