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The album L.A.R.R.Y is scheduled to be released Spring 2015. This is Notar's second studio album and it is another concept record. The songs on this record all follow the concept of a veteran who has come back from war and suffered greatly in his life. He's not only battled foreign enemies but also inner demons which have led to lost love, and heartache. This is an album about loss and rejection and how many people feel these days living in America. Here is a little back story on Larry.
Larry is certainly a Lonely Man. A man that has had to fight through the choppy waters of life when the ocean should of killed him. His story is one of much pain, sadness, agony, rejection, and glory. He is a very strong individual (what doesn't kill you makes you stronger mentality) and has always believed he could achieve anything even with very little because of all he has survived already in his life. That being said every man has their breaking point. |
Larry was abandoned as a young child and abused by his biological mother growing up which is why he doesn't trust anybody. It was always hard for him to experience love and joy or attachment after the woman who bore him left him as just a child. Every relationship he has been in has been heartbreaking and violent. He eventually found that the only real love in his life was the love he had for his fellow brother soldiers in the military. They didn't seem to judge him and they always had his back. After losing many of his friends in combat and elsewhere Larry truly fell into an abyss of emotion. To make matters worse his long time girlfriend who he had planned on marrying when he returned from over seas fell in love with another man and this was a devastating blow to Larry as he eventually just emotionally crumbled. You can feel Larry's character is constantly in his own head replaying old times to the point i guess you can say he is truly stuck in the past and reflecting on his once violent love after things went wrong.
As the album progresses and the pieces of the story are put together you feel that Larry has fallen into a very deep depressive state. He comes home to no friends, lost love, and not much money. Here you have a man that was accepted by his fellow brothers, he bled with them but he now feels lonely again and he can't find acceptance anywhere. Nightmares start and so does intense drug use, the suicidal thoughts and drinking kick in and you know exactly where to find Larry after 4pm on any given night. He spends time at the bottom of a bottle observing people laughing, socializing and enjoying life. When he is liquored up he often likes to find the younger crowd and tell old stories etc to whoever will listen. Sometimes people listen, sometimes they point fingers at him referring to him as just some "dumb bumb at the the end of the bar" When he feels disrespected his anger becomes overwhelming. He provided protection to those he now feels utterly disrespected by and he has trouble dealing with it.
Short on Money armed with a gun he starts to think of ways in which he can still survive so he sets his sights on a man he believes should die by his hands ...
As the album progresses and the pieces of the story are put together you feel that Larry has fallen into a very deep depressive state. He comes home to no friends, lost love, and not much money. Here you have a man that was accepted by his fellow brothers, he bled with them but he now feels lonely again and he can't find acceptance anywhere. Nightmares start and so does intense drug use, the suicidal thoughts and drinking kick in and you know exactly where to find Larry after 4pm on any given night. He spends time at the bottom of a bottle observing people laughing, socializing and enjoying life. When he is liquored up he often likes to find the younger crowd and tell old stories etc to whoever will listen. Sometimes people listen, sometimes they point fingers at him referring to him as just some "dumb bumb at the the end of the bar" When he feels disrespected his anger becomes overwhelming. He provided protection to those he now feels utterly disrespected by and he has trouble dealing with it.
Short on Money armed with a gun he starts to think of ways in which he can still survive so he sets his sights on a man he believes should die by his hands ...
