This is the third full-length from Nebraska's Mayday. Songs of death, dismemberment, drugs, greed, and devotion. Like the teenage death ballads of the 50's, Mayday casts an odd sort of instrumentation and lyricism into romantic ballads of the afterlife. Percussive, choral, upbeat, morbid, scatological, rootsy-indie-wit. A bluesy kuntry mythological storybook. Featuring the talents of Mayday's usual suspects: Ted Stevens (Cursive, Lullaby For The Working Class), Tiffany Kowalski (Lullaby For The Working Cla...   [ read more ]

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LULLABY FOR THE WORKING CLASS singer/writer with members of CURSIVE in the band. The instrumentation of Old Blood is referential to the Lullaby staples of guitar, vibraphone, strings, and banjo, extending the formula with piano, organ, tympani, and loads of guest vocals. The resulting sound is both raw and ornate. Revisited themes of spring, rebirth, solidarity, florescence, and distress establish a unity of imagery amidst sporadic changes in song dynamic. The songs were selected from a long and arbitrar...   [ read more ]

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Mayday's second album I Know Your Troubles Been Long follows pretty closely in the footsteps of the critically admired debut. The record features the same blend of orchestral textures, dense lyrics, plaintive vocals and unique instrumentation that the debut did. Former frontman for Lullaby for the Working Class combines punk angst of Cursive with more down home acoustics of LFTWC."O Brother Where Art Thou"for the emo set with hints of the Band's basement tapes.

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