A couple years back, Dan Hornsby talked these pages through the creative process which informed recording his breakthrough debut as True Green, My Lost Decade. It was clear that the humble Minneapolis musician and published novelist had found a dualistic sweet spot between songwriting and storytelling when crafting lo-fi indie rock that allowed fiction and non-fiction to coexist in a way where he really makes it easy or you to disregard whether it’s autobiographical or not, because even if it’s not, then it’s still meaningful entertainment to be heard in it all.

We got a preview of his next musical chapter last winter with the opposing moodery of “Consider the Priesthood” and “Falconry”, and now, “Italian Lighting” — the opener from he alongside bandmates’ Tailer Ransom and Peter Miller’s sophomore follow-up, Hail Disaster — lends its hands to the developing storyboard as well. While this one doesn’t go hard with any sort of conflagration beyond allusions to Hell wrapped in a very cozy blanket of guitar-pop with twinkles of keys, self-made disasters are tempted in Hornsby’s wordplay. “You washed your black band shirts / ‘Til they turned blue / The band broke up / But it’s not because of you,” he sings. As far as scene setting goes, the newest character intro in True Green’s world is probably no different than you or I in just doing their best to get through the day without feeling like everything bad that’s happening is somehow their fault.

True Green’s Hail Disaster will be released March 24th on Spacecase Records.