Written by: Alex Green

The dB’s Peter Holsapple has announced he will release a new solo album in April.

Titled The Face Of 68, the album is the 68-year-old Holsapple’s third solo effort and the follow-up to 2018’s Game Day.

The common denominator of the musician’s age and the album title is no coincidence; The Face Of 68 is a reflective record about being a man of a certain and rather specific age.

“I was recently thinking that when I was 20 years old, I wrote about girls and having fun, Rock ‘n Roll, and stuff like that,” Holsapple recently told Glide Magazine. “Now, I’m about to turn 69, and I’m writing about friends dying, or not having the time that I once had, or reflecting on a long marriage. That’s a different perspective. It has to be. If your life’s changing, your subject matter is going to have to change, too. The one thing that I’ve striven for is to always make it authentic and only release stuff that I think is good.

Produced by Don Dixon (R.E.M., Marti Jones) the subject matter of the eleven tracks on The Face Of 68 span fallen friends (“So Sad About Sam” and “Larger Than Life”), record collecting (“That Kind Of Guy”), and dystopian science projects (“My Idea #49”).

Holsapple opted for his solo band to be a trio, enlisting the help of Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five) and Rob Ladd (The Connells).

The Face Of 68 will be out April 18th on Label 51 Recordings