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By: The Daily Growl » The new Young Republic

The Daily Growl » The new Young Republic — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:18:46 +0000

[...] Matthew, I’m not going to do a proper review now, because the album has no fixed release date yet, [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:54:22 +0000

I hate to do this, but I have to agree with Jules on this one. I am unfortunately unaware of all but the most radio available REM, I will have to look into it if I’m aping this Mills though. I’m quite flattered non the less.
Chris

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:29:54 +0000

Are you sure Chris hasn’t been secretly listening to REM while you weren’t looking, Jules?!

It’s great bass work either way. It just put me in mind of Mills’ melodic approach.

I’m looking forward to taking Matthew up on his offer of a beer at his place and a sneak preview of the new album. Really looking forward to hearing it.

And thanks for taking the time to clear up those details – really appreciate that.

Best of luck with the new album – cheers!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:23:05 +0000

“Oh and it’s not a classic rock album. It’s a music album”
Touché!

But Americans don’t get to lecture anyone about food, I’m afraid -glass-houses and stones and so on.

I’ll be really interested to hear 12 Tales with the new lineup, that sounds like an amazing project.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:50:25 +0000

Hey Matthew – Usually when you write me an email it means you had the band on the brain… which means you wrote something about us… I would have read it anyways but checked just in case because I love to see my name in print. It’s pretty funny to hear ya’ll talk about 12 tales in such a loving way, especially about it having “skilled musicianship.” To Mr. Dylan, I assure you that the songwriting, arranging dwarf 12 Tales and our resources for this latest album – called Balletesque by the way – were infinitely greater than those do it yourselfs we did at Berklee. A proper string orchestra this time and a real studio, not to mention an engineer, a top notch mixer and world class masterer. It’s frankly flattering to read about your own band on a blog and subsequent comments since we are cloistered up in the studio every day of the week working on music and haven’t even gotten to play out but twice in the last 4 months and have no feedback about what we’ve been doing. It’s silly really, but it means a lot that you guys genuinely like the last album. This one though is a real piece of work, plus we’ll be recutting 12 Tales with the new lineup later this year. And I read we were working on another album this year? I think it’s 2. You guys are peaches.

a couple clarifications Mr. Dylan – Chris has no REM influence, I did not play on Goodbye Town save for some harmony vocals – that’s BOB, our jazz guy.

Oh and it’s not a classic rock album. It’s a music album

Hopefully see ya’ll later this year in the UK, land of rain, bad food and nice people

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:00:25 +0000

Catchy that.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:59:24 +0000

And if one-eyed Larry gave the rest of them any gip about being made lookout – all the blind lads would beat him up! They’d hit him with their sticks and set their labradors on him, not make him a king.

Unless he didn’t tell the others, of course..

So the saying should be:

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man should really be the lookout or something useful, but if he doesn’t fancy that, he could be king as long as he’s a bit sneaky and doesn’t tell anyone about his one good eye.

By: Rampant Chutney Consumerism

Rampant Chutney Consumerism — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:39:42 +0000

what was that?

oh…tumbleweed

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:18:58 +0000

In the land of the Welsh, even Bart is funny.

(Zing!)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:05:19 +0000

I always wondered about that saying that goes “In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.” or whatever it is.

I mean, isn’t it a bit of a waste to make the bloke with the one good eye a king? What with him just sitting around being waited on and having grapes peeled for him; and with nothing much of any importance to actually look at? Wouldn’t it make more sense to make him something more useful, like a lookout for example?

“‘Ere Larry, why don’t you go up on top of the mountain with your one good eye, take the telescope, and if you see anything coming give us a shout. The rest of us will just bimble about down here bumping into stuff.”