Stream: Sego, ‘Be Alone’

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Sego, in 2017 at the Troubadour (Photo by Jessica Hanley)
Sego, in 2017 at the Troubadour (Photo by Jessica Hanley)

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
— Albert Schweitzer

It turns out even art-punks get the blues. The new single from Sego — the band built around the creative partnership of Utah natives Spencer Petersen and Thomas Carroll — is “Be Alone,” a break from the mostly frenetic music on their albums and EPs. It’s a song for staring out the window on a long train ride.

“We are solitary individuals, and that’s fine,” Petersen says. “There’s a twisted irony in that loneliness is perhaps the most universally felt emotion, particularly given the amount of social connectivity thrust upon us on a daily basis.”

||| Stream: “Be Alone”

||| Live: Sego opens for Vacationer on Aug. 2 at the Constellation Room (tickets) and Aug. 3 at the Teragram Ballroom (tickets).

||| Previously: “Cigarette Kids,” “Sucker/Saint”