Album Notes

"Everything in life is a cycle of learning, growing and building significant relationships. With each record we hope to maintain and build upon that tradition." - Jonathan Haskell

Recorded in their Long Beach, California warehouse with nothing more than a laptop, some vintage gear and a couple of good quality microphones, angeles drake's debut album, I Wish You Would Come Home Already is enchanting, blending a symphonic cuff of keyboards, pristinely distorted guitars, mathematical infused drumbeats, algorithmically synthetic programming and heartbreakingly soaring anthems. And with themes of found and lost loves, renewed and dying hope, I Wish You Would Come Home Already is a symbol of life incarnate.

With recent U.S. and U.K. tours, numerous placements in film and television including Joan of Arcadia and America’s Next Top Model, national radio spins including famed Indie 103.1and KCRW 89.9 in Los Angeles, CA and playing sold out shows at the famed Troubadour in Los Angeles, California, the a.d. gospel is growing and spreading. And it is easy to understand why.

The album title is taken from the painting of the same name that graces the album's cover by famed angelino painter Matthew Heller. The painting shows the complexeties of human emotion and the struggle to find beauty in us all. A lyrically cyclical album, the opening track Serpents, begins with the lyrics, "why am I here lying wide awake/sleeping soundly as the earth shakes" and the closing track March, has Haskell shouting, "the more you go, the more I wait/ I'm losing sleep, losing sleep/are you leaving, are you leaving again." Metaphorically it signifies the beginning and ending of a relationship, but also establishes that relationships are always starting anew. "The theme of relationships is central to this album," explains guitarist Marc Herron. "And the album artwork and lyrics are indicative of that."

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