Rich Ragany & The Digressions Reveal ‘Heartbreakers Don’t Try’

After putting out three albums in three years with Role Models, Rich Ragany set out to expand his musical horizons and to find the right musicians to join him on that task. Finally settling on a line-up that includes members of Desperate Measures, Hollywood Brats, UK Subs, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Yo Yos, Glitterati, Mallory Knox, Dedwardians, SHUSH and Seven Days And Doesn’t Die, the newly realised Rich Ragany And The Digressions released their debut album “Like We’ll Never Make It” in 2019. With time and talent on their hands, the band used lockdown to get creative and wrote a new batch of songs. Files & ideas were sent flying across the digital highway and new songs quickly began to take shape. Then, in a break between lockdowns, the band headed into the studio and we can now hear the first results of these sessions with ‘Heartbreakers Don’t Try’, you can check out the video below

“Everyone did their parts at home over the bare bones ‘vocals and acoustic guitar’ demos I sent out. They would send what they had done back and forth and to our producer (and keyboardist) Andy Brook, who would then mix. The result was incredible, depth and colour with a cinematic feel. The demos themselves sounded great and inspired, so I knew we had a special album in the making. All of this really provided a way to keep us focused, it kept us in constant contact with all the banter, fun and excitement, during a time we couldn’t see each other… It’s a pretty simple song lyrically about the fight you can have with depression. But then that great feeling of just saying “FUCK IT” and standing up and taking on the day, week or challenge. Just taking that cloud and giving it stiff little fingers and going out and gettin’ some JOY! The liberation… The puppets do a fantastic job of raising your spirits, and they are really feeling those lyrics. We love bands like The Faces who are great at juggling beautiful music, but also letting their humour show. It’s in the spirit of that. (Rich Ragany)