Poughkeepsie, NY combo Matchbook Romance are busy readying the follow-up to their 2003 debut Stories and Alibis. Entitled Voices, the album is scheduled to drop on Valentine’s Day, 2006.
Voices will be produced by John Goodmanson (Blood Brothers, Hot Hot Heat, Sleater-Kinney) at Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, MA. The band will be entrenched in the studio through mid-October.
“This is a huge step out of the realm of our scene and our previous record, Stories and Alibis,” explains Mfrontman Andrew Jordan. “While Stories was written with the message, ‘yield to love", I feel that Voices is somewhat a counterpart but also embarks on stories of betrayal, nightmares, ghosts, and of course a little love. Musically it completely surpasses Stories by a landslide. We have matured as musicians and have definitely fine tuned our style to hopefully contribute to the evolution of music, and not stall it like so many bands of today. The record also has a much darker vibe than our previous album. It constantly presents this feeling that your stuck in a dream world, and at the same time it also posses this feeling like your constantly being chased. I hope that our current fans as well as new fans will fall in love with this record.”
Source: music.ign.com
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