Forty Two by Bob Spring

"Forty Two" is a confession in five chapters. A weathered postcard from the soul, it traces the path of heartbreak, hope, memory, and rebirth across a terrain both intimate and universal. With storytelling at its heart and melodies steeped in Americana, folk, and alternative roots. Across these five tracks, Bob Spring confronts inner demons, nostalgia, and redemption with raw vulnerability and poetic grit.

Opening with “Does It Sound Familiar”, a letter to the past and a song of survival, the EP draws listeners into a world of late-night trains, family echoes, and hard-won resilience. “Goodby Alabama” is a farewell to illusion, soaked in the nostalgia of a friendship that couldn’t quite outrun time. On “An Ugly Ending” silence speaks louder than words, capturing the slow unraveling of a love that once burned bright.
But "Forty Two" isn’t only about falling apart—it’s about the quiet rebuilding. “Around a Memory” is a song of endurance, of choosing to hold on through darkness. The EP closes with the stormy isolation of “The Angels Don’t Come” where the search for divine intervention dissolves into a bitter echo.

The title "Forty Two" itself nods to layered meanings—whether an age, a year, or the cosmic answer to life, the universe, and everything. It’s reflective, a little broken, and ultimately brave.
This is not just music — it’s confession, it's catharsis, it's motion through the dark with one eye on the horizon. Forty Two doesn’t promise answers. But it promises the truth.

Tracklist

1.	Does It Sound Familiar?	4:21

2.	Goodbye Alabama	4:18

3.	An Ugly Ending	4:41

4.	Around A Memory	4:24

5.	The Angels Don't Come	5:15

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released July 10, 2025

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