Beloved Vancouver pop-rockers, Fake Shark have released their eagerly awaited full length album, Afterglow today via Light Organ Records. The album features the chart-topping single “Exactly What I Thought You Were,” which claimed the #1 spot on the Breaking Alt Chart. Spanning 13 tracks, it includes fan favorites such as the Top 30 radio hit “Save Me” and the infectious anti-summer anthem “Bummer Summer.” Fans will get to dive deeper into Fake Shark’s newest chapter with a handful of brand new original tracks such as focus feature “Kinda Like It” featuring The OBGMs.
“Afterglow is a record about surviving a time and a situation where a lot of people I care about didn’t,” explains lead vocalist Kevvy. “It’s about hopefully coming out of the other end as a stronger and smarter person. It started in a way we’ve never started a record before.”
Reflecting on the creative process, Kevvy shares: “Usually, I will just write on my own throughout the year, and we would get together as a band in a studio with an engineer to lay down bed tracks. This time, we decided to rent a mansion on the water, hire an amazing engineer named Karl Dicaire, and set up a recording room in this library, and also show up with no ideas. Each day we’d get up, have a coffee, and Alex would get on the drums, me on bass, and we’d work out a structure for a song, just instrumentally, and then everyone would join in with ideas, I’d write lyrics while they were tracking, and you’d have a finished song by the end of the day! It was so inspired.”