Tom Hamilton has spent the last 30 years fronting several bands over a handful of genres - including Brothers Past, American Babies, Ghost Light, and he also sings and plays lead guitar in Joe Russo's Almost Dead.
It wasn’t until a series of personal and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia-based musician/songwriter/producer to reconsider his approach and finally forge ahead under his own name.
“When you're in a van on the road for 20 years, you live in your bubble, you think that your world is one way — and it's not. The pandemic break gave me the time to see that. Then my band broke up and my dad got sick. The only refuge I had was the studio.”
I’m Your Vampire, Hamilton’s most personal effort yet, is a 10-song suite wreathed in tattered-flannel rock & roll that encapsulates Hamilton’s salvation in isolation, as he sorts through the darkness to find a pinpoint of light.
“It takes effort to not just be jaded as we age — to not look at the world in a hardened way,” Hamilton says. “Yeah, it's a dark, dark fucking time, let's make some lemonade.”
His album, I’m Your Vampire, co-produced by Hamilton and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman/Wednesday), is out now via AWAL/Relix.
