Joshua Bassett on Working Through ‘Some of the Best and Worst Times of My Life’ on His Debut Album, ‘The Golden Years’
variety.comMike Wass Joshua Bassett‘s debut album, “The Golden Years,” taps a deep vein of bittersweet nostalgia. Throughout 11 self-penned songs, he charts the highs and lows of late adolescence and early adulthood with the rigor of a documentarian.
Which isn’t completely unexpected, given that he spent most of that period under a microscope as an up-and-coming singer and actor — as well as an unwitting figure in a cataclysmic Gen Z drama. “I’ve been through some of the best and worst years of my life,” Bassett tells Variety.
He quickly admits that “The Golden Years” was essentially a form of therapy to cope with the latter. “Music is one of the only ways I can really process my emotions.
I wrote a lot of songs in five minutes or less — I’m not saying that to brag, I just got to this place where I could just kind of vomit it out.” And Bassett had a lot to get off his chest.
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