Bert McCraken opens up about 'Heartwork': "I've always felt like the same hardcore kid I was when I was 15" After 20 years, The Used are still a formidable force.
Their seventh record, 2017’s ‘The Canyon’, was a slow-burning epic. A double album recorded live to tape, frontman Bert McCraken described it as “an art experiment, a conscious decision to avoid making any kind of commercial statement and a painful process.” Following the death of a close friend, the album existed inside a grand concept that questioned grief, loss and longing. “We needed to make that record, but it was the opposite of fun.” By contrast, their upcoming album ‘Heartwork’ sounds like a right laugh – returning to the sort of immediacy and colour that set them
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