This year Windsor for the Derby celebrates its tenth year with the release of its fifth full-length, "We Fight Til Death." Over those ten years Dan Matz, newly relocated to Philadelphia, and Jason McNeely, from Austin, have managed to maintain this project over the many miles. Over the last few years, Timothy White and Ben Cissner have jumped on board to lend their invaluable assistance and helped to create a solid quartet. With each release, WFTD finds a way to take a wholly different trajectory while cre...   [ read more ]

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Taking a slightly different route than on their previously uniformly solid releases, Windsor for the Derby eschews the weighty instrumentals of their past in favor of a mix emphasizing vocals, solemn acoustic guitars, and florescent keyboards. On their fourth album, the minimalist and hypnotic tendencies of their past remain, with Dan Matz and Jason McNeely remaining as the only full-time members of the band. Now walking the line between spacy folk and chamber pop, the arrangements of twi...   [ read more ]

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Despite the connotation of its title, How We Lost is a celebratory album. It's a reflective record and, in its own way, celebrates the Windsor For The Derby continuum that's been created from their first release (Calm Hades Float, 1996) to their last (Giving Up the Ghost, 2005). Each of these recordings is a sequel to the next both in narrative and musically and as the band's first two were re-released last year they found themselves in constant dialogue about their body of work and the paths they'd chosen...   [ read more ]

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