Page 38 - ION Indie Magazine MarchApril 2024

Hard times and deadlines.

While this is the band's fourth collective project together, it is only their third full-length album. But
Dougherty confesses that this is the album that all the band members truly felt sounded like a
professional, flushed-out band.

“This album is a big maturing point for us,” Dougherty said. “We truly sound collected and
professionally tuned as a whole with “Hard Times & Deadlines” and we’re stoked for listeners to hear
and see the effort we’ve poured into this album -- not only in music, but also in its promotion. We have
four singles coming out that lead to the release of the album, and in my opinion, the four songs we’ve
chosen as singles represent how the album sounds as a whole.”

The album is released onto all music platforms on March 15, 2024, and has been in the works since
2021. Armchair Boogie has proven popular for outdoor shows and festivals, and when they’re not
performing as a band, they’re typically finding gigs with other bands and artists. So, gathering time
over the last few years to record “Hard Times & Deadlines” has proven difficult, though they made
sure to record each song in Lunar Lava Studios of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

“We’ve just been slowly but surely chipping away at the album. Since we’re not a full-time touring
band, we all book other gigs and have shows lined up. For ‘Hard Times & Deadlines,’ we would record
a few songs, then take a few months off, write a few more songs, and then schedule when we could
all come together again to record.”

“It was very sporadic, whenever we collectively had time off, we made sure recording was a top priority.
It’s been five years since we’ve put out our last full-length album, so that really shows you right there
how hard it is to get us all together when we’re not touring or performing,” Dougherty laughed.

“Hard Times,” the first single from the new album, is from where the title of their album is drawn.