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Giant Drag To Release New Album Waking Up Is Hard To Do

• 28th Feb 2013

After a previously unexplained seven year absence, Giant Drag front woman Annie Hardy has finally broken the silence and announced the release of the long overdue sophomore album from the cult LA rockers.

In a statement today she said the following:

“This LP has been a total curse on my existence; every time I team up with a record company or person to get this thing out something goes wrong and it just ends up sitting there like it has for 7 years now, so I am putting this thing out myself this coming Tuesday 5th March.” says the singer.

“I want to engage people once again and make the rest of the world care as well. Basically the last couple years of my life were pure hell and I spent it (and my “success” period of GD) a slave to prescription drugs, only to go to rehab last October to get clean” Hardy explains “Legal battles were won and health problems have remained and I’m kind of getting honest with everyone for the first time. Since my family now knows I’m not afraid to tell truths about what’s been holding me and my music back for so long. I’ve been through a lot surrounding addiction and dealing with issues of mental health watching my ex-boyfriend lose his mind (go Full Psycho). It’s totally overwhelming but there’s been a shift of perspective in me and I want to help other people if I can. It’s already turning out to be a wild ride and I think things will keep getting better. I hope if you survive listening to this record you’ll be excited as I am about what’s to come.”

“I have no current plans to tour Giant Drag but Charlotte Froom and Tennesse Thomas from The Like will be helping me to reform GD for a select few shows to promote the record and say goodbye to the band properly so I can concentrate on my new project Annie Hardy and the Psychos as well as my pet project PnP. I will be finishing up recording EPs with Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line, and of course the live LP Shredding Leeds is meant to be out right now but I stupidly committed to laborious hand-made vinyl packages for the fans so I’m working on that nightly.”

Waking Up Is Hard To Do is released on Full Psycho Records on Tuesday 5th March 2013 via link