“We toured so much last year that when we came home this summer for three weeks to hang out on the Jersey Shore it was really inspiring,” Fallon answers when asked about how the band’s hometown informed these songs. The opener “Senor And The Queen” is an anthemic punk track that’s reminicent of gritty acts like Leatherface and Hot Water Music “Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?” shows the band turning down the distortion and bearing their souls on two-inch tape in a way that would make their hometown hero Bruce Springsteen proud “Say I Won’t (Recognize)” is an upbeat rocker that could even get the most cynical critic out of his barstool and onto the dance floor and “Blue Jeans And White T-Shirts” is a soulful coutry-tinged ballad that’s so familiar sounding it’s difficult to believe it’s not a cover. The result is a collection of songs that are remarkably varied, with the only unifying characteristic being their timelessness and authenticity. “We were so fresh from playing the songs on tour, so recording wa the easiest thing ever,” Fallon explains, adding the band utilized a Vox AC30 amp that was once used by Minor Threat’s Lyle Preslar on these sessions. Recorded during a rare few days off in Austin, Texas, last year, the EP shows the progression the band have made in the last year from literally every waking moment on the road. The band-which is made up of vocalist/guitarist Brian Fallon, bassist Alex Levine, drummer Benny Horowitz, and guitarist Alex Rosamilia-are currently hard at work on their sophomore full-length, but to tide fans over they’re excited to announce the release of the four-song EP, Senor And The Queen. Without any gimmicks or make-up, they’ve built a buzz in the rock scene that’s growing more deafening with each passing week. Despite the fact that they only had one full-length to their name (2007’s Sink Or Swim), the band have written songs that are dripping with so much authenticity it seems they would take decades of hard living to craft they played over 200 shows in 2007 alone with some of the biggest names in the punk scene such as Against Me!, The Loved Ones, and The Draft and In the brief span of two years New Brunswick, New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem have acomplished more than most bands will in a career’s worth of existence. But how did they start? That’s what the next lines should be about…. Everybody heard about The Gaslight Anthem these days with their record the ’59 sound they got famous.
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