The Year in Interviews

Musician Joe Lally discussed life after after Fugazi.

Some of the lyrics seem very personal. I don’t want to read too much Fugazi baggage into it, but was it an emotional experience recording a song like "Painfully Aware" with Guy? No, because… There may be some of that in that for sure; Fugazi is a huge part of my life and then to have it just stop, you know, it was a really difficult thing to not be able to play with those guys and work on making songs and playing them live with them. However that’s worked itself into my songs is not to where recording with Ian and Guy is therefore really heavy or something. It doesn’t really have too much to do with that – recording a song is sort of trying to naturally capture something that’s an expression so in itself that can be heavy but it isn’t my relationship between the people I was working with that made it that way.