In Conversation: Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré
On Touché Amoré's new album, Jeremy Bolm explores the pernicious dread of modern living through a deeply personal lens. The hardest part, he says, is knowing that's not the same thing as "fixing" it.
I don’t remember meeting Jeremy Bolm for the first time. He’s just one of those people in hardcore who seems to have always been there, someone who leaves evidence of his active presence and participation everywhere he goes. Since 2007, he’s been the singer of Touché Amoré, but over the years, he’s also been a writer and publisher, owner-evangelist of Secret Voice Records, and host of the long-running First Ever Podcast, among many other things. But in order to be the person he is, Jeremy needs to put himself out there. A lot. And sometimes, this kind of life can create psychological friction—stress, anxiety, low-level dread. I can attest to this from personal experience.
Touché Amoré’s upcoming sixth album, Spiral in a Straight Line, due…