The song is the title track from the group’s first studio album in a decade
Canadian rockers Finger Eleven are bringing more new music to their legions of fans with the release of “Last Night On Earth.” The song is the title track from their first new studio album in a decade, due on November 7th via Better Noise Music, their first with the label.
While everyone agreed the title track was a special song, it took Scott Anderson, James Black, Rick Jackett, Sean Anderson, and Steve Molella many years to find the diamond inside of this movingly candid string-laden ballad about how relationships fall apart. Jackett realized that they had no true chorus, but as they were tracking drums for the last four songs on the album, drummer Steve Molella suggested doing an acoustic, campfire-style jam. They nailed it during their final hour of studio time.
“Scott wrote some of my favorite lyrics,” Molella beams. “It was the most natural the song has ever sounded.”
“I think ‘Last Night On Earth’ could be placed squarely in a traditional relationship frame where you forget what you’re even fighting about,” continues Scott Anderson, whose vocals compellingly illuminate the song’s sadness. “But you hate that feeling in the pit of your stomach when something’s not resolved and you don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna look like.”
“Last Night On Earth” is the follow-up to the album’s second single and video, which was released on August 1st, the thunderous “Blue Sky Mystery” featuring Richard Patrick from Filter. It’s currently flying up the active rock chart in Canada.
Last year, fans got the first taste of the album via the high-octane “Adrenaline” (which reached the Top 20 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart) and a video that’s reached over 176k views on YouTube. The song also reached No. 2 on the active rock chart in Canada, where the song held strong in the Top 5 for over four months.
The band is now propelled by a fresh musical vigor. “As we were making Last Night on Earth, there was this feeling that we were making a big Rock record,” Rick Jackett recalls. “We had done that early in our career, and then we veered away from it. But it was time to go back and embrace that bigness of the sound. Even the soft songs sound big.”
After rocking a busy festival season this summer, Finger Eleven will hit the U.S. with Alien Ant Farm and Brkn Love for a flurry of concerts leading up to the new album’s release. This will be followed by a national Canadian tour with fellow native sons Headstones and Tea Party joining them.
