Answering Machine Diaries is the debut solo album from Toronto based singer-songwriter Scott Lanaway. With a plethora of live dates, national television appearances, #1 radio chartings and extensive film and television placements under his belt with his Montreal based band Radio One and Toronto’s m-1, Scott Lanaway hits the ground running with his third album of songs.
From the instantly memorable stream of consciousness meanderings of Queen Street and the under the radar love song Red Dress, to the tossed off Portuguese Sunrise Two’s hidden meaning of everything and the bitter sweet, yet resigned heartbreaker It’s Alright If You Do, Answering Machine Diaries is Leonard Cohen meets Beck in a post 9-11 reality TV world.
Answering Machine Diaries was written when Scott suffered a major back injury that kept him away from making of music for a long time. Spending months in bed, in total agony, unable to move, and wondering if he would ever play music again with his TV stuck on CNN, Lanaway laid the groundwork for what would become Answering Machine Diaries. No longer worrying about the outcome as a whole, Scott became a slave to each song written as its own entity. Taking each melody and idea to its logical limit, the songs became fully realized as the soundtracks to Scott’s time staring into the abyss. The movies in his mind. The Answering Machine Diaries.
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