Forest City & Friends is proud to announce the March 29 release of “Sol,” the second CD from the Maine-based rock group. “Sol" is the follow up to the band's 2020 self-titled debut album, which was released in mid-March 2020, just as the pandemic hit the USA. The new CD, like the debut, was produced, recorded and mixed by Anthony Gatti (along with the band) at his studio The Bulkhead in Scarborough and then mastered at the world famous Gateway Mastering in Portland by Grammy Award winning engineer Adam Ayan (additional recording was done at Chris Muccino’s Evergreen Studio in Bath). The physical CD will be available exclusively at all Bull Moose stores throughout Maine and New Hampshire, with online fulfillment through www.bullmoose.com, while the digital version will be available on all of the popular streaming sites like Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and many others.

The band, which first came together in late 2016, began as a songwriting collaboration between local rock luminaries Pete Giordano (Twisted Roots, Heart Shaped Rock) and Chris Muccino (Endless Interstate, Liquid Daydream) and with the addition of Greg Goodwin (Mercy, Akela Moon) the group quickly assembled an album of songs and began to recruit various “friends” to record with. After the full length debut CD’s release, the band immediately started writing and demoing songs for “Sol" and then soon thereafter assembled the current eight piece line-up by adding local music vets Paul Gauer (drums), Sheridan (vocals), Bill Bourassa (guitars), Tom Archer (saxophone/flute) and Tim Myers (percussion). Popular Swedish illustrator Leo Lyxxx, who created the striking cover design for the first album, was brought back in to do the cover for “Sol.”

Lyricist Pete Giordano shared his thoughts on how the new material differed from the debut album: “The new tracks are not as bluesy/jammy and there are elements of funk, acoustic Americana and psychedelic stylings mixed throughout. The lyrics are a little less introspective, with references to menacing birds and a robot old west lawman sprinkled in with other inspired storytelling. The title track was inspired by creation/destruction myths, like how the Hindu texts encoded sacred numbers within the Rigveda. It also inspired by the "Five Suns” myth of the Aztecs and the cycles of destruction that lead to the next cycle, except I changed the destiny of the fifth and final sun in my re-telling.”

There will also be a CD release show on April 22 at Sun Tiki Studio in Portland Maine with special guests An Overnight Low. Details to come.