This is from an interview with Tony:
"What does "Brace Your Face" mean?
It's basically describing this frustration... One way to describe it is this year that I had - I titled it "The Year of Diminished Expectations" - which is sort of a way to be happy by not expecting too much and then just being pleasantly surprised by everything. Like living in upstate New York and saying, "Oh look, it's a beautiful snowfall" instead of saying "Oh, man I thought it was gonna be nice today so I could play basketball or plant flowers," or something.
That song, "Brace Your Face" is all about trying to communicate, especially via technology, and just sort of failing. I don't know, I guess if there's any sort of hopeful message it's sort of scaling back to something that you can achieve, like talking to someone face to face. I don't know, that's sort of where that song comes from."
This is from an interview with Tony: "What does "Brace Your Face" mean?
It's basically describing this frustration... One way to describe it is this year that I had - I titled it "The Year of Diminished Expectations" - which is sort of a way to be happy by not expecting too much and then just being pleasantly surprised by everything. Like living in upstate New York and saying, "Oh look, it's a beautiful snowfall" instead of saying "Oh, man I thought it was gonna be nice today so I could play basketball or plant flowers," or something.
That song, "Brace Your Face" is all about trying to communicate, especially via technology, and just sort of failing. I don't know, I guess if there's any sort of hopeful message it's sort of scaling back to something that you can achieve, like talking to someone face to face. I don't know, that's sort of where that song comes from."