Heart Of Gold - Beautiful Dangerous (2022) Hi Res

Titled Beautiful Dangerous, the upcoming album from the independent project of BEING AS AN OCEAN‘s Michael McGough is their debut full-length album and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via SharpTone Records.

Traveling to tap the talents of friend, producer, and studio owner, Phil Gornell, McGough routinely left his San Diego home around sunrise and made the five-to-six-hour drive to a small studio not too far from Burbank, Los Angeles. After several weeks, and with vocals and guitar completed, he and the music made their way back to Gornell’s iconic Steel City Studios in Sheffield. It was here in England that drums and percussion were tracked, engineered, and sent to Gornell in LA before circling back to Manchester for mastering. Distance was even bridged virtually as the team collaborated with BLACK PEAKS’ Will Gardner over Zoom to add an extra dash of glittering artistry and the bright brassy flair of a saxophone solo or two.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “there’s a distinct correlation between beauty and danger. Certain parallels become known once you’ve spent some time growing. Whether it’s the warmth of a new love, the longing that comes after a broken heart, the rush of an unexpected storm in the middle of a crowded city, there is a beauty and a danger to everything; some things are one or the other, but most are clearly both. Beautiful Dangerous, dissected carefully into fourteen pieces, demonstrates clearly where you can find the line between these two sincere words.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Leave Just Yet. Speaking about the new song, the band adds, “metaphorically speaking, Leave Just Yet was a song of self-realization. It was understanding that after however long I have been writing and performing music as a career, I think I still don’t truly know who I am, so the journey has become one of discovery to find out. Leave Just Yet touches on milestones and pinnacle moments in life, inside and outside of this world I’ve created where I think I have it figured out, but the truth is, I don’t. And that is absolutely fine for now.”