My Dear One

about this album

"In September 2008, The Shondes left Brooklyn to kick off their third national tour in support of The Red Sea, the band’s debut album released earlier that year. They played to audiences across the country, ate (and, of course, blogged about) amazing food, and debuted new songs to excited fans and generous press. But then the tour ended suddenly with the unexpected departure of their guitarist in Miami. The rest of the band had to drive the 1300 miles back to Brooklyn and scramble for jobs in a recession while singer and bassist Louisa Solomon fought to survive her devastating heartbreak. Back home after the tour’s sudden end, the members of The Shondes tried to remind themselves to do what everyone has to do: find ways to work through losing a bandmate, partner, and friend. They cheered themselves up by going to Coney Island late at night, eating soup, spumoni, and donuts, and watching copious amounts of Golden Girls and Roseanne. But most of all, they buried themselves in their songwriting. By October 2009, exactly a year since that fateful tour ended in “Miami” (also a tune on the new album), The Shondes recorded the songs that comprise their second full-length record My Dear One, to be released May 4, 2010 on Fanatic Records. In addition to making political art and melding influences as disparate as classical and traditional Jewish music and punk rock, The Shondes work for justice on many public levels, including in queer communities and as Jews fighting for a free Pa

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