Cody Votolato Announces New Album as JR Slayer You Found Me Out for January 2019 Release and Shares New Song “There Is Nothing Else Around Me”

Cody Votolato announces his new album, You Found Me as JR Slayer which will be out on January 20, 2019. His accomplished thrashy and discordant style, exhibited in early Blood Brothers albums and in Head Wound City, has evolved into a more melodic and experimental sound in recent years. In the first track on the album, the song, “I’ll Never Leave You” features Jenny Lee from Warpaint with Votolato.

The second track on the album, titled “There is Nothing Else Around Me” is a love song, with soft and heart warming lyrics,  I never knew you were out there but you landed just in time. Now you are my atmosphere, you’re the air I breathe. You are the land I see. It took 32 years for you to get to me. Didn’t you know you’d be the only thing I see.

You Found Me is a concept record. A journey, stumbling into long distance love, unexpectedly, not manipulated or coerced into being. A genuine connection that cannot be rationalized. It follows the path of emotions when thrust into a new beginning, not of your own volition, but of something seemingly greater. It grapples with the excitement, joy, pain, fear, confusion and gratitude that becomes all-consuming when entering a brand new unexpected love.

Votolato is from Redmond, Washington, best known for being the guitarist in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers. He grew up in the eastside suburbs of Seattle and attended Redmond High School with his bandmates in the late 1990’s when the band originally formed.

Rocky Votolato (Cody’s older brother) is a folk musician and solo artist who played in the band Waxwing, as well as with Rudy Gajadhar, the older brother of The Blood Brothers’ drummer Mark Gajadhar. Votolato also contributed artwork to The Blood Brothers’ album …Burn, Piano Island, Burn.

You Found Me Tracklist
1. “I’ll Never Leave U” (featuring Jenny Lee)
2. “There is Nothing Else Around Me”
3. “Half Lyfe”
4. “Nothing & Nowhere to Hide”
5. “This Is Alone”
6. “I Think I Might Die”
7. “In A Sea of Anonymity”
8. “How Could Love B So Cruel?”
9. “40 Extra Minutes In Heaven”