Brian says struggle of divorce shaped recent record

Brian Fallon has revealed he struggled with the making of latest Gaslight Anthem album Get Hurt as he lived through his divorce from wife Hollie.

The band’s fifth studio outing launched last month – but while the frontman says the split shaped much of the material, he doesn’t see it as a breakup album.



Fallon tells Canoe: “It’s what happened during that period, and a lot of the stuff in there is about that. A lot of it is my frustration and my struggle. But I’ll tell you one thing: it’s not Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, that’s for sure – but I’m developing my opinions as I go.”

He insists playing the songs from Get Hurt live won’t trigger any emotional response from that period of his life. “You work through whatever you’re going through at the time you write the song," he says. "Once you have something done that people are resonating to, it almost becomes more about the people you’re singing to and what it means to them.”

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Cool, thanks for sharing!!

Now, he DOESN'T see it as a break up record? Wow, I wonder what he would've come up with if he really wanted to make a break up record. Makes me even more curious about what might me in his lyrics notebook haha!

ivienco wrote:

Cool, thanks for sharing!!

Now, he DOESN'T see it as a break up record? Wow, I wonder what he would've come up with if he really wanted to make a break up record. Makes me even more curious about what might me in his lyrics notebook haha!

I know right...

thanks for sharing