Who haunts our homes? Is it the ghost of someone who left long ago, or do they sleep next to us?
That’s how Manchester, CT, emo rock duo Sentiments describe their first single, “Jinx.” Describing it as the lie we tell ourselves as we drift away. The track comes from their upcoming album If this is what you want, from We’re Trying Records.
Here is what the band had to say about the album and how it all came together -
If this is what you want was recorded at Silver Bullet Studios with Greg Thomas in summer/fall 2024. The album was pieced together and written around the idea of saying to yourself “if this is what you want” or “this is what you wanted” as you move through stages of life. It spans the tumultuous times in relationships to the arbitrary things that are kept when someone passes and asking what will be kept from you when you’re gone. The process behind the album is that most songs start from a seed of an acoustic song or simple line that repeats and it’s then given the full band treatment and worked and reworked until it’s at a place where not only are we happy but that it feels like a sincere piece of us. We write songs that we want to hear, and end up often killing our darlings in the process of making them the best versions of that, many of these songs have changed drastically since they were first written. We want the listener to feel like they’ve been part of our lives for the last few years and to say to themselves, “if this is what you want, recoil when it’s not enough” along with us.
You can check out the single Jinx below with the album out in Augustm release date to be decided.