- 2025-09-19
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MUSIC
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The Favors (FINNEAS & Ashe) Premieres New Song “David's Brother” on BBC Radio 1
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter FINNEAS and Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ashe's new band The Favors premiered a new song “David's Brother” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is taken from their upcoming debut album “The Dream”, which is set to be released on September 19, 2025.
It was written by Ashlyn Willson, David Marinelli, Finneas O'Connell, and Matthew Fildey. Produced by FINNEAS.
FINNEAS told Jack Saunders about the song, “This is, like, one of the only songs, is the only song I've ever written with the word acupuncture in it. I would put that there in the in the sort of Thesaurus of of music that I've made only song with with acupuncture. I don't know if there's another word like that in this one, but acupuncture, for sure.”- He continued, “The premise of the song is like, you've kind of let your life fall apart, you've gotten dumped, or you've gotten out of a relationship. And you think, 'Tonight I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna try to make myself feel better', go to a bar. And then you run into the person who broke your heart at the bar. And you think like, 'I should have just stayed home.' And so in the kind of weaving of this story, we were trying to think of like, what bar you might have gone out to. And a lot of this album takes place in New York, and then the few songs take place in LA. And so there's this one bar called 4100 and Ash is from Nashville. And it was like, 'I'm from Nashville. Like, if you don't go to 4100 that's not an interesting name of a bar to say in a song.' And we were like, 'Okay, who's always at this bar?' And then David, who dropped on the whole record, my brother's always at that bar. We all hysterically.”
Ashe added, “I mean, I think you can kind of hear in all the songs David's brother in particular, you can kind of tell we're having more fun than we should making an album like you can kind of sense that which is special for us, and hopefully for the listener.” -
The debut album comprises 12 tracks, produced by FINNEAS.
FINNEAS said of the album, “Between picking up a piece of furniture to move alone and picking up a piece of furniture to move with, like, a couple people, like, it's like, it is an easier lift. I feel the same way about working with Billy and any artist is, like, it is so fun to collaborate.”
Ashe said, “What I mean, maybe naively forgot about is, like, how much I was gonna learn from my friend. I think I said this to him before, but just like, it's like a master class working with him. He's just so intelligent, prolific, and really like, I just feel like I've been learning so much, and I really admire that about him.” - source : BBC Radio 1
