“We just decided to throw that caution to the wind and put the record out and let people enjoy it as they would. “There were elements of not wanting to create any mistaken connections between the world as it is and the songs themselves,” he says. Wilson admits he was hesitant about releasing the EP when the world is plagued by COVID-19. We had our plan to release the music and the world changed a lot.” We recorded it the next year and wrapped it up the end of last year. “I found the vibe to write a good Semisonic song again. “In 2017, I found the key again,” he says. The five-song collection includes the first single, the title track-the group’s first new song in nearly 20 years. Wilson recently found the right songs for a Semisonic EP he called “You’re Not Alone,” which is due out September 18 on Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. The 2001 album “All About Chemistry” was Semisonic’s last album until the trio officially reunited in 2017. “I don’t feel like ‘Closing Time’ is the only good thing I’ve ever done,” he says. He became the go-to songwriter for hitmakers like Adele and the then-known Dixie Chicks with “Someone Like You” and “Not Ready to Make Nice.”
Wilson says although Semisonic didn’t match “Closing Time’s” success, he has been very fortunate in the rest of his endeavors. The song “Never You Mind” from “Feeling Strangely Fine” is a bouncy, relentlessly hooky song with the line, “Shaking my mind/like an Etch-a-Sketch erasin’.” “All About Chemistry’s” “One True Love” featured Wilson duetting with Carole King, making for a magical ballad. That’s not to say Semisonic didn’t have other hit-ready material.
That’s a huge stroke of luck, but it’s inconvenient for the band as an entity to be overshadowed by our own song.”
It’s so ubiquitous, so widely known and enjoyed. “We had this song that turned into an evergreen song, that means more to people than the band did. It’s inconvenient to have a hit that’s bigger than the artist. “If you have a hit, you have to be lucky in a bunch of different ways with your hit. “You can only be lucky in so many different ways,” says singer Dan Wilson, who is joined by bassist John Munson and drummer Jacob Slichter. The Minnesota band couldn’t quite find that sort of success again with “Closing Time’s” album, “Feeling Strangely Fine,” or its stellar follow-up album “All About Chemistry.” When Semisonic scored a hit with the 1998 last-call anthem “Closing Time,” the Grammy-nominated song became bigger than the trio.
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