Elegant is engaged on a brand new album with the son of the band’s late frontman.
The massively influential Lengthy Seashore ska-punk trio — whose singer Bradley Nowell died in 1996 — stated Wednesday that it’s writing and recording songs with Nowell’s 29-year-old son Jakob, who stepped into his father’s function with Elegant in late 2023. The band is working with producers Travis Barker (of Blink-182) and John Feldmann and plans to launch the LP’s first single this summer season.
“I grew up on Sublime,” Barker stated in an announcement, including that the band’s 1992 album “40 Oz. to Freedom” “changed the way I listened to music.” Feldmann, recognized for his work with pop-punk acts together with Good Charlotte and 5 Seconds of Summer season, stated working with Elegant “has been a highlight of my life.”
After performing with Elegant for the primary time in public at a profit live performance for H.R. of the pioneering hardcore Dangerous Brains, Jakob Nowell fronted the band final 12 months at Coachella then went on to play a collection of pageant dates with drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson, who shaped Elegant with Bradley Nowell within the late ’80s. Bradley Nowell’s loss of life from an unintentional heroin overdose got here simply two months earlier than the discharge of the band’s first major-label album. But that self-titled LP went on to turn out to be a quintuple-platinum smash, spawning late-’90s alt-rock radio staples like “What I Got,” “Santeria” and “Wrong Way.”
After Nowell’s loss of life, Gaugh and Wilson performed collectively within the Lengthy Seashore Dub Allstars; in 2009, the 2 drafted the singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez to carry out Elegant’s music beneath the identify Elegant with Rome.
Final 12 months, Jakob Nowell informed The Occasions that folks had pressured him for years to play along with his dad’s former bandmates however that he’d at all times been reluctant, partly as a result of he had his personal musical pursuits and partly due to his difficult relationship along with his father’s reminiscence. He modified his thoughts after a “spiritual pilgrimage,” as he put it, to the theater in Petaluma the place Bradley Nowell performed his ultimate gig.
Elegant has tour dates scheduled this summer season together with a Might 3 cease on the BeachLife pageant in Redondo Seashore.
