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What does an artist do when the distance from the bedroom to the arena starts to feel like a bridge too far? How to amuse the muse, to re-find the fun and deliver something personal to the listener? In response to those questions, Brian Sella the lead singer and songwriter for the Front Bottoms has made Well I Mean, a new album under his own name constituting his first solo album. Sella has been tossing words and melodies out of his head and into the wider world since he was a kid. In the beginning it was something he did just for fun but then it grew into something bigger. His songs have been played in front of thousands of people who hang on and sing along to every word. Songs that started as DIY bedroom recordings and were pushed out into the world on myspace and Tumblr along with CDR burns. Now his music is delivered to audiences with state of the art sound and lighting gear by a support team working diligently behind the monitors and computers to keep everything humming in technicolor and sensurround sound. Songs that have now traveled all the way to giant stadiums with close to a billion streams and counting. Sometimes you have to go back to the beginning to find a way forward. Well I Mean hearkens back to the messy feelings Brian managed to get down when he was starting out, as part of the Front Bottoms. But now Sella is a grown up. He’s still battling some devils and demons but with more tools and expertise at his disposal. One area of of expertise he didn’t ha