![]() If you’re going to say something, say something, and don’t waste your breath unless you feel like you’re saying something.” “I had to sit and think about what I’m saying – what do I want to say, is there anything to say? What’s my perspective as this Southern kid who’s watching the modern world and feeling very much like an alien in a lot of ways. ![]() “I’m married to a woman with a masters in literature, and I can’t show her lyrics unless I’m pretty proud of ‘em,” he says. Looking to such inspirations as Tom Waits and Nick Cave, Janeway was intent on lifting his game as a songwriter on material for the second album. I wanted to take it up a notch, in all realms.” That gave me the ability to work on harmonies on the vocals. And me and Jesse and a few of us would send stuff back and forth via Dropbox. Then we rented out a very hot warehouse in Birmingham where we could write. The week in between the two weekends, we really started to hash things out. Work began in earnest during last year’s Coachella festival in California: “We rented a house in San Bernardino Valley National Park. “There would have been nothing wrong with that. “If we had been forced to go into a studio a year and a half ago, we probably would have done a better version of Half the City,” he says. Janeway says that he and his close musical associate Phillips began to ponder the direction of the band’s second album a year and a half ago. You can draw people in by giving and taking.” You don’t have to go for it 100% all the time. I was just learning more nuance, and about carrying a melody. I didn’t know my voice – I’d never done this professionally. We were only a band for about five months at that point. There’s a sense of urgency to having a record like that. “With the last record, it was like doing things with your hair on fire – going in, recording it live. “It felt like it happened organically,” Janeway says of the band’s development. The new album witnesses a deepening and broadening of the unit’s musical reach and lyrical concerns. Sea of Noise is a successor to the Broken Bones’ 2013 debut album Half the City, which introduced the group’s blazing mating of ‘60s soul fire – daubed with latter-day influences like Sly Stone, David Bowie, and Prince - to Janeway’s impassioned singing and writing. The collection of new original songs is the group’s first release on RECORDS, a joint venture of SONGS Publishing, winner of ASCAP’s 2016 independent publisher of the year award, and veteran label executive Barry Weiss. ![]() Longtime members Paul Janeway (lead vocals), Jesse Phillips (bass, guitar), Browan Lollar (guitars), Andrew Lee (drums), Al Gamble (keyboards), and Allen Branstetter (trumpet) are joined by Jason Mingledorff (saxophone, clarinet, flute), and Chad Fisher (trombone). Produced by Paul Butler and recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium, the group’s sophomore effort features an expanded eight-piece lineup of the widely praised soul-based rock unit. Paul and the Broken Bones, marks a quantum leap in sound and style for the high-voltage Birmingham, Alabama-based band. Gatefold sleeve, with download.Sea of Noise, the second full-length album by St. Heavyweight vinyl produced by Merge Records. Featuring Phil and Brad Cook, Josh Kaufman, Matt McCaughan, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and The National's Aaron Dessner. I wanted where we recorded it to mirror the searching spirit of the music." Having written upwards of 40 songs-in motel rooms, his studio in North Carolina, and a secluded cottage outside of Virginia, Taylor and crew managed to make ten works that comprise the most fully realized and genre-defying Hiss Golden Messenger album to date. Taylor says that he wanted to make 'Terms of Surrender' "a wandering record. And then there's an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messenger's music grooves. Taylor's existential ruminations about parenthood, hope, loneliness and our delicate, tightrope walk of dark and light. Hiss Golden Messenger's music is at once familiar, and hard to categorize -the steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric piano- all provide the bedrock for bandleader M.C.
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