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Chunk Of Change EP

Nov 26, 2008, 10:29am

Release Date: 09.16.08 Can you sing about love in indie music without being ironic or intensely self-aware? For that matter, what happens when you eschew irony in indie music altogether? Ours is a music group mired in cynicism -- dismissing the insincere (i.e. Billboard Top 40) and scoffing at the overly eager (i.e. emo music). It is not that we don't feel love, it's that we want our presentations of love unique, original, expressionistic, yet somehow subtle. We sing of these emotions, yet under carefully crafted disguises -- metaphors, analogies, stories, characters. But what happens when [...]

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