Just Desserts is back. Here's how to listen to CURTAINS

Just Desserts is back. Here’s how to listen to CURTAINS

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Just Desserts Releases New Album ‘Curtains’

Larry Fessenden & Tom Laverack, aka Just Desserts is releasing their fourth album, ‘Curtains’ 38 years after their debut LP, Sentimental War arrived in 1987, almost to the day. Fessenden, a full-time filmmaker, producer, writer and actor, and Laverack, a singer-songwriter, co-founder of Sojourn Records, and a director of operations at a large behavioral health agency, have never stopped making music. But post-COVID, the high school pals dug back into where they left off working on songs before the pandemic. Coalescing in Fessenden’s barn upstate, the album took shape in the way one might ideally imagine a music project going – exciting reconnection after years of not playing, collaborating on the music and refining ideas, Fessenden, the king of the bridge, helping finish incomplete songs.

Enter Mark Ambrosino and his Madhouse Studio. Mark and Sojourn Records produced the last JD full length album ‘Lost in Love’, and with him behind the kit and the board, Mark helped JD enter into their fourth decade with vigor.

“I remember walking by the car wash on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, a strikingly ugly part of Brooklyn, when I had the idea of writing a song called ‘Curtains’. I think I wrote Larry an email and said, ‘Our next album is going to be called Curtains. I just have to write the song.’ The fact that we actually did it, thanks in large part to Larry shepherding the project forward, well it makes me very happy.”

Additionally Laverack adds, “Until we really got deep into it, I don’t think I understood how much this record is about being alive, ironically, in a positive way. Larry used to say he was a disappointed optimist, and I might add I’m a disappointed idealist. So sadness, angst, heartbreak is all there, but so are the odd moments of enlightenment you didn’t know you were capable of experiencing. Many times this occurs musically here, like a counter theme to some of the lyrics. There is a mystery and magic to being alive. As Larry sings, ‘it’s so Tender.’

And then life ends as inexplicably as it began.”