Chicago’s Sonny Falls—a.k.a. Ryan “Hoagie Wesley” Ensley—has two new songs out today, and they’re the first of many to anticipate from the songwriter this year. Along with “People on Porches” and “Filling in the Blanks,” Hoagie is announcing his third LP All That Has Come Apart / Once Did Not Exist, a double album set to be released two songs at a time over the course of the year via Plastic Miracles.
Divided into three movements, the record kicks off with the two conjoined singles being shared today, merging the influences of his city’s prolific garage rock scene with the inter-genre experimentation of No Age and the ambitious theatrical narratives of Titus Andronicus. In tapping the Chicago scene’s sounds, you may recognize the violin on the former single as the work of Ohmme’s Macie Stewart and the sax work on the latter single as the work of Hoagie’s former Sooper labelmate Sen Morimoto
“These songs were inspired by walking around the city where I live and have grown up,” the songwriter shares. “They’re about embracing and feeling the weight of human history and the ghosts of stories that we are surrounded by all the time in the places and spaces we live; both personal and unknown, speculative and concrete, remarkable and mundane.”
Stream the tracks below, and purchase them here—20 percent of proceeds will benefit Chicago’s My Block, My Hood, My City, specifically their small business relief fund For My Block.
