Arm's Length

“This record speaks more to my life at the moment than the past,” singer/lyricist Allen Steinberg explains, “even though there’s still a good amount of past on it. But it’s how I’m dealing with it now, as opposed to being enveloped in it—there’s more a sense of being on the other side of it, of seeing it with hindsight. " Produced by Anton DeLost, There’s A Whole World Out There expands Arm’s Length’s horizons, presenting Steinberg as more self-reflective contemplative than he was before. As Steinberg wrote the parts for all the instruments and most of the lyrics and drummer Jeff Whyte added percussion, it was only when these songs were recorded as a full band with Jeremy Whyte on bass and Ben Greenblatt that their full potential was realized. The result is that the feelings driving these songs burst and bloom with full force, building on the incredible foundations set by the band’s previous record. Though most of the album is designed to be played loud, there are also moments of delicate, tender nuance that offer a window into the resilience that got Steinberg through those trying few years, allowing him to now look back on them, if not with a smile, then with a palpable sense of relief. “It’s all about having some hindsight,” he says, “and being able to look back on the traumas that I talked about on the last record. It’s accepting the damage is done, and then moving on.”