These Green Eyes-Relapse To Recovery-(Advance)-2009-FNT

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Artist: These Green Eyes
Album: Relapse To Recovery
Label: Black Ledge
Playtime: 37:07 min
Genre: Alt Rock | Mall Emo
Rip date: 2009-01-17
Street date: 2009-03-24
Size: 64.11 MB
Type: Advance
Quality: 229 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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Tackling issues of friendship, loss, remorse, and ultimately hope, These
Green Eyes evoke a far more visceral variety of emotion on their breakthrough
disc Relapse To Recovery, boiling down five years of trials and tribulations
as a unit, culminating with the tragic and unexpected loss of a close band
friend to suicide.

The seeds of These Green Eyes were planted in 2003, when drummer Mark
Brundrett, guitarist Greg Mauro and bassist Zach Braz met in high school and,
based on their shared love of music, decided to create some together. After
months of experimenting with a revolving door of members, a basic lineup
coalescedwith the exception of a vocalist. Enter Colin Cunningham, a
friends brother with the heart of a poet and an impressive set of pipes.
Accepting the invitation to play a single show (at which he made up lyrics on
stage), he continued showing up for practice and the band stopped looking for
a singer.

With a solid lineup in place, the band wrote and recorded a six-song demo and
pursued a bona fide recording session with producer John Naclerio (Brand New,
My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail). With four professionally recorded songs in
hand, the band was passed up by the local labels they approached. Undaunted,
they went on tour to disseminate the EP. The bands friend JR (from Less Than
Jake) felt the record deserved a wider audience and helped them get posted on
the main page of PureVolume, where just one year after fomenting their
lineup they were the second most listened to artist after Fall Out Boy.

Propelled by the exposure, more fans began showing up at shows in remote
areas, fueling the boys to write and record more material for a full-length
release. After six months on the road, they returned to the studio with
Naclerio to record seven additional tracks, completing what would become
their debut, House of Glass.

Throughout 2006, These Green Eyes became road warriors, sharing bills across
the country with Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, The Academy Is, The Higher,
Less Than Jake, Hidden In Plain View, Silverstein and Gym Class Heroes.

In 2007, the band recorded two new sets of demos, one with old partner John
Naclerio, and one with new friend Rob Freeman (formerly of Hidden In Plain
View). The new material cemented a deal with newly-christened indie label
Blackledge Music.

With Blackledge now on board, These Green Eyes secured recording time with
uber-producer Brian McTernan (Thrice, Circa Survive, Senses Fail, The
Explosion, Hot Water Music) at his Salad Days compound in Baltimore in the
early spring of 2008. During recording, the bands lineup shifted, resulting
in the addition of longtime friend and tour mate Jeff Krenn on guitar.

The McTernan sessions resulted in the birth of eleven driving and melodic
anthems which cohere as the triumphant record, Relapse To Recovery. Varying
from a world-weary worldview (opener At The End) to high octane vendettas
(the scream-along chorus of Sucker Punch) to ruminations on the loss of
friendship (the wistful closer Time Of Our Lives), These Green Eyes have
channeled their punk, post-hardcore, and arena rock influences into an
anthemic wall of sound thats all their own.

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01. At The End ( 3:09)
02. Paramedic ( 3:46)
03. Kick The Crutch ( 3:52)
04. Tell Me Everything ( 2:38)
05. Drunk Driver ( 3:18)
06. Two Minute Warning ( 3:07)
07. Blood Sweat And Beers ( 3:59)
08. Sucker Punch ( 2:40)
09. Last Call At The Dolly ( 3:19)
10. Words ( 3:22)
11. Time Of Our Lives ( 3:57)

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