One of Philadelphia’s favorite sons, Tim Hause, has announced plans for his second studio record. It’s called Pre-Existing Conditions, and much like on last year’s debut, TIM, it finds Hause teaming up with big brother Dave and producer Will Hoge. Unlike on TIM, however, the focus is less on the singer-songwriter thing that the Hause brothers can both do in spades, and more on the rocking, and he filled his studio band out with heavy hitters like Dan Andriano and Atom Willard for the occasion. Here’s how Tim explains the background of the record:
Of all the art I’ve made, this record feels the most like a reflection of me. It’s a celebration and a reckoning with the scars that make me who I am; an expedition through my own set of Pre-Existing Conditions.
My life has been riddled with loss. Through the help of music, therapy, medication; and most importantly an incredible family unit, I have been able to cobble together a wonderful life in spite of events that could easily have been backbreakers if not for the village around me.
We lost our mom when I was young, and I lost my best friend in traumatic fashion when I was 21. He vanished into thin air and was pulled out of the Schuylkill river after 38 days of a painstaking search through our hometown to find him.
The cover of the record is a reflection of my struggles and my outlook on them. I used to ask why me? Now I ask why not me? Why should I be spared of any aspect of life? The highest highs or the most crushing lows. The most beautiful joys or the worst imaginable pains. With any blush of new love comes future tears of a lost one. I want to live life with all the fullness there is. I want to live it with a defiant thumb in the air against a perfect blue sky while wearing a hospital bracelet. I earned that bracelet at the peak of a manic episode that landed me in treatment.
Pre-Existing Conditions is due out early next year on Dave and Tim’s own Blood Harmony Records, but you can pre-order your copy now and you can check out the lead single, “Make It Take It,” below or wherever you stream your streams.