“I had some ferns on my patio that were root-bound and chocking to death in their pots. In a last-ditch effort to save them, I bought larger pots and fresh soil, and moved them into the shade. In no time, they were dark green and vibrant and, much to my surprise, very much alive. I was inspired to apply the same time and care to the songs that had been pushing against the inside of my head. ” - Kathy Fisher It’s been fifteen years, millions of downloads and 8 albums since the duo, Fisher, first made a name for itself by taking the Mp3.com world by storm with their song “I Will Love You”, but they are still very much alive and growing, and their ninth studio album, “3”, is a strong testament to that fact. If you ask Fisher member, Ron Wasserman, why he started writing a new album, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t remember. But Kathy Fisher has a different story: “I had been spending WAY too much time online, where so many people turn off their brain social filters in a most astounding way! The conversations I was having with people I thought I knew were eye-opening, shocking, heartbreaking, and insightful to an extremely uncomfortable degree! After a few weeks of being engulfed in the maelstrom, there were so many emotions brewing inside of me that it seemed as though, if I didn’t get them out, my head would explode!” Fisher took to her small home studio to make rough song demos of those emotions, while Wasserman was down the street in his pro studio scoring for numerous televisions shows. “I would present these ideas a little here and a little there to Ron, usually when I thought he wasn’t too exhausted to digest them. After giving him two or three songs that he didn’t actually hate (laughs), I think it hit him like, ‘Damn, is she doing an album without me?’” Before Kathy knew it, Ron was filling her drop box with song after song after song, and a new album was underway. Although initially inspired by Kathy’s reaction to online overload, “3” is far from being a one-dimensional response to her ride on the social media crazy train. While you can definitely feel the influence on songs like “We All Fall Down” and Fisher’s powerful cover of Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike”, you turn a corner and find “Home”, written by Kathy to celebrate her sister’s new abode, and the sweet “Come True”, written by Ron for his and Kathy’s son, Aron. Tucked in between those polar opposites of subject matter lie love, loss, yearning, celebrations, endings, new beginnings, confessions, apologies, love letters, and glimpses into the minds of two poignant songwriters who just keep expanding and expanding as artists. Luckily for us, they cannot be contained.