It’s clear: Five Dollar Shake throws a party everywhere. But 2024 will be extra special for the band. The band will present its first album ‘Bigger Heart’ on Saturday January 27: a record with a story. A divorce turned frontwoman Legaspi’s life upside down. As a heart on her sleeve singer, she started to write down all the anger, frustration and pain, with the band as the ultimate outlet.
Bigger Heart is raw and pure, and tells a story that is recognizable to almost everyone. “I’m hell bent to make it out alive,” Lucinda sings determinedly in the heavy rocking record opener Hell Bent. But that is easier said than done: ‘You did wrong by me and you did right by you’, sounds frustrated in Wrong By Me. Bigger Heart is also about empowerment, about realizing that you are enough (I Can Do It Myself) while you stand for the first time with a drill in your hand to attach a shelf to the wall in your new house (Damn Self) . About going rogue again (Midas), about not being able to cope for a while (It Will Do) and about seeing everything in perspective again, with all the emotions that come with it, in the monumental title song.
And, as the ultimate sign of recovery: getting angry again about what else is happening in the world. Mustache is an unambiguous message addressed to Johan Derksen in response to his infamous ‘candle story’ in Today Inside, of which an unnamed woman was the victim, ‘Waking up abused and confused and most likely blaming herself’. Knowing Derksen, he would also appreciate it musically.
