Out September 25, 2026
Sunny
Side Up
Sunny Side Up arrives gently, smiling. Twelve songs baked in the warm, harmony-stacked language of the late sixties and early seventies: golden hour stretched to album length, pleasant enough to leave on while you make dinner.
The subject matter offers far less comfort. A parent losing their memory. Breaking up with someone because you love them too much to keep them. The fear of missing a trip your best friend takes without you, and the strangeness of coming back from one of your own. A man who cannot make the decision that will shape the rest of his life.
Nothing announces itself, and nothing here dresses the way you'd expect. The album opens and closes in the same drifting nowhere and spends the middle trying to find its way back. It plays very happily in the background. It won't stay there for long.
Twelve tracksOpen a title for the note behind it
01Universal Lie
The one running the universe is a teenager with no idea how any of it works, who cannot admit that to anyone and is not remotely the thing people are praying to. The lie is not deception. It is that he is just a guy.
02Somewhere Else
Restless indecision, and the feeling that your own life is the thing standing in your way. It spends the whole song failing to move, and ends with a decision to walk out the door.
03You Won't Remember
An ordinary afternoon with a father who will not remember it. The park, the dog, ice cream, bad jokes. Golden hour doing its best work on the saddest song here.
04Ripple Delete
Someone who disappears into any room and uses charm the way other people use force. Niceness as control, cleverness as the exit from anything. The coldest thing here, and the one that does not belong.
05Follow You
Watching someone you love go somewhere you cannot follow, and wanting it so badly it aches. Everyone else is having the experience. You are holding the coats.
06Rootbeer FloatInstrumental
The only instrumental, and the only moment nobody is worrying. A malt-shop bounce for setting out, light on its feet and entirely unaware that home is getting further away.
07Keep Reading
Broken meter and a groove that will not sit still, for the discovery that the place you ran to is also just a place. Goes on anyway.
08Lafaye
A warm, folky, almost theatrical remembering of a mother, and of everything home turned out to contain. The most openly affectionate three minutes on the record.
09I Can't Hold You Down
Sixties orchestral pop in the Bacharach mode, tender and unhurried, about loving someone enough to let them go.
10I Will Not Go
Dreamy and completely immovable at the same time. A song about roots, and about refusing to be pulled out of them by anyone who has decided you should go. It never raises its voice. It does not move either.
11You Remain
A celebration of longevity: one person, chosen and kept through everything that came after. Quiet, theatrical, and the closest this album gets to uncomplicated happiness.
12Flicked On Beam
A dream or a trip that ends in understanding the whole thing was about coming home, followed immediately by having no idea what to do with that. The helplessness of Universal Lie, arrived at from underneath.
About
Andy P. Fugdale
Andy P. Fugdale is a recording artist, singer/songwriter, funny guy (not haha funny), competitive napper, unlicensed licensing consultant, and the only person ever banned from three Denny's simultaneously in two states. He studied taxidermy briefly, but the live animals didn't appreciate it.
His music has been described as "music" by at least one witness under oath. It obeys no known key or scale. But it IS music, trust me.
Sunny Side Up is twelve of them. Listen at your own risk. Or somebody else's, that's fine too.
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