Sold Date:
June 20, 2014
Start Date:
May 2, 2014
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High Violet is the highly anticipated follow up to 2007's Boxer. Singer Matt Berninger said of the album in an interview: "I don't think it sounds anything like Alligator, but it's less restrained than Boxer, that's for sure. I don't quite scream my head off in the way I did with "Mr. November", but I do think it's cathartic. Boxer
was all tension without a whole lot of release. This builds a lot of
those same kinds of tensions, but I think there's at least a little bit
of bloodletting in this one. I'm trying to sing out and higher a little
more, and the melodies move around a little more. When we started this
record, I worked on melodies before I worked on lyrics. A lot of my
melodies are sort of in a limited chanting, murmuring range, which has
always worked for me. But I was trying to work on melodies this time
much harder than I ever have in the past, and I think that alone has
made the songs feel like they release more. I don't know; we're talking
about abstract things. There's a lot of yelling on this record, but not
quite the guttural, psychotic screams that were on songs like "Abel" and
"Mr. November". I also think this record moves faster. I think it's
going to be a longer record than Boxer, but hopefully it's going
to feel shorter. The songs have much more momentum, somehow. It's less
stately, a little more. . . Catchy is not quite the word, but I think
this record will be fun to drive to. Hard to tell, though."
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