#freshfind: From departure to arrival, Husband talks all new adventures in Cuatro
We had a wonderful time chatting with Danny Davis about the new album Cuatro and the journey leading up to it.
Husbands, the indie-rock meets indie-pop project, fronted by Danny Davis — has captured the freeing, breezy, and emotional journey of breaking free from monotony and routine through massive choruses and colorful arrangements. The single arrives on the heels of a successful tour with Goth Babe and a packed performance at Lollapalooza last month. Husbands will also kick off their headline tour with a slew of dates supporting Wilderado, a performance at ACL, and stops in Chicago, NYC, Washington D.C., and Nashville.
Husbands have shared two of the album’s tracks so far — “Used To Surf” and the bombastic lead single “Can’t Do Anything,” which saw notable praise from Paste Magazine, Variance Magazine, Northern Transmissions, and more.
Cuatro is available for pre-order here
As the co-founding songwriter behind Husbands, Davis has meticulously crafted breezy and emotionally potent tunes about finding your place in the world. Cuatro marks a turning point for Davis. It’s the first LP he’s released without his longtime bandmate, collaborator, and close friend Wil Norton. It’s also an album that Davis made during a time of relative personal stability after quitting his nine-to-five as a software engineer and moving with his wife to Costa Rica.
Across 11 arena-filling and richly-produced tracks, Cuatro is a document of Davis’ growth as a human being and a testament to finding peace in evolving relationships. Throughout his career, Davis’ songs have tackled the soul-crushing grind of day jobs and his unwavering desire to be a full-time musician. Now that he got his wish and was happily living in Costa Rica to focus solely on music, he needed to reframe his relationship to songwriting. “Before I quit my job, music was an outlet to channel negativity into some sort of release,” says Davis, citing the grind of his one-time software engineering job and growing up in Oklahoma’s bible belt as his reasons to let loose. With one of the major conflicts in his life now resolved, he decided to go back to the basics of why he loved music in the first place by writing universal and inviting songs you could easily grab onto. “I grew up with popular music—it’s what my dad listened to—and I still love it as an art form,” he says. “I just wanted to make an album for people to be able to sing along and feel a connection through it.”
“We’re called Husbands because I got married when I was 20 and have been with my wife since I was 15,” explains the now 33-year-old Davis. What started as a cathartic release from the soul-crushing 9-to-5 grind has evolved into something bigger and safe space for fans to turn to. In fact, fans have shared how Husbands' music has helped them through tough times. “Something people tell us a lot when they come to our shows is that it feels like hanging out with a friend, which I take as the perfect compliment. I love a cool and mysterious artist as much as anyone else, but that’s simply not who I am or who I am capable of being. We’re like the cool uncles.”
Husbands on Tour
9/23 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre ~
9/26 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre ~
9/28 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theatre ~
9/29 - Forth Worth, TX - Tannehill Tavern ~
9/30 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theatre ~
10/7 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10/22 - Tulsa, OK at Vanguard
10/23 - Ames, IA at M-Shop
10/25 - Indianapolis, IN - Hi-Fi
10/26 - Louisville, KY - Zanzibar
10/27 - Columbus, OH - The Basement
10/28 - Covington, KY - Madison Live
10/29 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway
11/1 - Kansas City, MO - Encore
11/2 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
11/2 - Appleton, WI - Gibsons
11/14 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
11/5 - Detroit, MI - PJ’s Lager House
11/8 - Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
11/9 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
11/10 - Cambridge, MA - MidEast Upstairs
11/11 - Brooklyn, NY - Zone One
11/12 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
11/14 - Washington, DC - DC9
11/15 - Richmond, VA - Richmond Music Hall
11/16 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Black Room
11/17 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
11/18 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room
11/19 - Atlanta, GA - Purgatory
~Wilderado