Toad The Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Philips will release his first solo album in five years this fall. There Is So Much Here will be released on November 4th via Compass Records. In addition to the album announcement, he’s released the first single from the project called “Big Changes”.
Phillips got his start as lead singer & songwriter for Toad The Wet Sprocket. They formed in the mid-1980s and rose to fame on the success of singles like “All I Want“, “Walk On The Ocean“, and “Fall Down“. What I didn’t realize until doing homework for this article was that their name was inspired by a Monty Python skit according to Rock & Roll True Stories. Like many quirky band names, it wasn’t meant to be permanent, but it stuck. And the rest, as they say, is history.
After releasing a series of hits in the 1990s, they went their separate ways in 1998. They reformed (part-time) in 2006 and made the reunion permanent in 2010. Their most recent album was released in the late summer of 2021, Starting Now.
Glen Phillips Solo Album
Phillips follows up his 2016 solo effort Swallowed by the New with an album focusing on gratitude, beauty, and staying present. When asked about the new single, he had this to say.
“Big Changes” is about what I think of as The Situation — the changing environment, the growing gaps between ideologies and realities that make healthy debate almost impossible… The Situation invites The Conversation, which is usually just a litany of all that is wrong with the world and how we feel hopeless to change any of it. The second verse of the song is about what I see as the start of changing things — love, wonder and tears. I’m not always great at this. I’m as good at doom scrolling as the next guy, but I write songs like this to remind me to take my head out of the sand more often than I would otherwise.
-Glen Phillips
Glen Phillips On Tour
Phillips will support the release of There Is So Much Here with a series of fall tour dates primarily in November. He does have a few solo shows in September and December as well. He has a busy few months to close out 2022 planned. Toad The Wet Sprocket is set to tour select cities from September 29th through October 8th.
For more information, you can visit Phillips’ website or follow along on Instagram and Twitter.
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