NASHVILLE |DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 1999
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN/ MITCH SCHNEIDER
PAUL WESTERBERG'S CAPITOL RECORDS DEBUT ALBUM
`SUICAINE GRATIFACTION'
LAUNCHED WITH FIRST TRACK "LOOKIN OUT FOREVER"
AND INTERNET BROADCAST
To coincide with the release of PAUL WESTERBERG's SUICAINE GRATIFACTION, the Capitol Records website hosted a 24-hour listening party of the album on Friday, February 19th. From 12:01 AM-12:00 Midnight (Pacific Time), fans got a chance to preview the record in its entirety prior to the February 23 release.
Fans are already getting their first taste of the album (WESTERBERG's first for Capitol) via the track "Lookin Out Forever." In its first weeks at radio, the song generated 81 adds at a variety of formats and was the most added in the AAA format. PAUL describes "Lookin Out Forever" as "a song about desperation and hopelessness that I had to play to give me hope." In the New York Daily News Jim Farber noted: "In `Looking Out Forever,' Westerberg captures the irony of a lost romance that he thinks of only fleetingly, but repeatedly, in a pattern he fears may never end."
Produced by Don & Paul Westerberg and recorded at PAUL's Minneapolis home and in New York and Los Angeles, SUICAINE GRATIFACTION was recently described by Robert Hilburn of the LOS ANGELES TIMES as: "an album that is likely to be one of the most heralded works of the year." Hilburn continues: "He is at a turning point of his life–a time when he's looking back and trying to put things back in perspective so that he can move forward…it's clear in the music and in his comments that he has turned a dramatic corner in his life."
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