LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) Rise Records is honored to announce the signing of Los Angeles based THE JEALOUS SOUND. This new partnership will commence February 5th, 2013 with the re-release of their latest full length album entitled, A Gentle Reminder. The new deluxe digipak version will include 4 bonus tracks including a brand new song and the 2008 Got Friends EP. The double vinyl LP version will include those as well as 2 remixes of the song "Got Friends" including one by Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service. A Gentle Reminder was recorded by John "Lou" Lousteau in the Foo Fighter's 606 Studios and features Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters/Sunny Day Real Estate) on bass. Listen to a new lyric video for the song "This is Where it Starts" below:
In addition, Rise will be re-releasing their first 2 albums as one deluxe version. The" s/t EP" and "Kill Them with Kindness" albums will be re-released in the summer of 2013. Expect a new album in early 2014.
The Jealous Sound will embark on a nationwide tour this February with new favorites Balance and Composure.
TRACKLISTING - A Gentle Reminder LP
1. BEAUTIFUL MORNING
2. CHANGE YOU
3. PROMISE OF THE WEST
4. YOUR EYES WERE SHINING
5. THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS
6. HERE COMES THE RIDE
7. EQUILIBRIUM
8. PERFECT TIMING
9. A GENTLE REMINDER
10. WAITING FOR YOUR ARRIVAL
11. FULL REWIND
12. GOT FRIENDS
13. BROAD SHOULDERS
14. TURNING AROUND
15. GOT FRIENDS (JIMMY TAMBORELLO REMIX)
16. GOT FRIENDS (JOHN MCGINNIS REMIX)
Jan 31 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
Feb 01 Magic Stick Detroit, MI
Feb 02 Subterranean Chicago, IL
Feb 04 Marquis Theatre Denver, CO
Feb 06 Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA
Feb 07 The Echo Los Angeles, CA
Feb 08 Chain Reaction Anaheim, CA
Feb 09 The Nile Mesa, AZ
Feb 11 Red 7 Austin, TX
Feb 12 Cambridge Room Dallas, TX
Feb 14 BACKBOOTH Orlando, FL
Feb 15 The Talent Farm Pembroke Pines, FL
Feb 16 Phoenix Taproom Jacksonville, FL
Feb 18 The End Nashville, TN
Feb 19 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
Feb 20 DC9 Washington, DC
Feb 21 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA
Feb 22 The Sinclair Cambridge, MA
Feb 23 The Space Hamden, CT
Feb 24 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
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About The Jealous Sound:
Blair Shehan-Lead Vocals/Guitar * Bob Penn-Drums * Jeremy Tappero-Bass/Backup Vocals * Michael K Richardson-Guitar
Blair Shehan says that his time away from The Jealous Sound wasn't a matter of losing his way. It was a matter of finding it.
"I got zeroed out, and I had to figure out how to do things in a healthy way," the singer-guitarist says, recounting the long, strange trip it's been to 2013, when the Los Angeles quartet will release its first album in ten years, A Gentle Reminder [street: Feb 5, 2013 on Rise Records]. "I've been humbled, and now I'm a very different person than I was in 2003. I've learned a lot about just being in the world."
Many of those life lessons are revealed in the grandeur of the new album, a poignant and emotional triumph that not only proves a worthy successor to Kill Them With Kindness — named one of Spin's best albums of '03 — but reveals the foursome at the top of its craft. Open-hearted, yes, but not really gentle at all, A Gentle Reminder represents a 44-minute epiphany set to cascading guitars, thundering rhythms and Shehan's evocative vocals.
Made in the Foo Fighters' Studio 606 with John Lousteau producing, A Gentle Reminder features founding members Shehan and guitarist Pedro Benito working alongside the Foos' Nate Mendel (filling in on bass for the departed John McGinnis) and new drummer Bob Penn. Josh Staples (The Velvet Teen/The New Trust) contributes backing vocals (and bass on three tracks).
How the quartet coalesced to recapture the magic is a labyrinthine tale that covers three states and includes a lot of emotional baggage, but the first turning point came in late 2004 after rigorous touring behind Kill Them With Kindness. A major label was poised to come on board and help with a follow-up. "But we were simply out of gas," Shehan says. "I was spent. I remember John telling me, 'You know, you don't have to feel bad if you don't want to do this."
A half-hearted attempt at carrying on yielded only 2008's Got Friends EP, and it was painfully evident The Jealous Sound had stalled completely. So Shehan set aside the band life, moved to Las Vegas and got a day job.
"There's a sense that I flipped out and left; people thought I went crazy," Shehan says. "But what's crazy? Staying in a band at my age with no stability? Ignoring the normal parts of becoming an adult? People don't necessarily understand what we do, and the commitment it takes to do what we do."
After two-plus years in Las Vegas, "things there fell apart in very dramatic fashion," Shehan says, so he moved to Florida and at one point was even poised to take the LSAT. He bought a guitar instead, and reconnected with Benito, whose friendship with Mendel helped The Jealous Sound land a spot opening a 2009 tour for the bassist's previous band, emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate. The old juices started flowing.
When that tour ended, The Jealous Sound began meticulously piecing together the ideas that would become A Gentle Reminder, an experience that at once thrilled and horrified Shehan. "Sometimes I'd be writing a song and think, 'Oh, man, I don't really want to say this, do I?'" Shehan says. "But the process of writing removes any filters you have — you're not as in control of things as you'd like to be. It ended up being very liberating."
That sense of freedom rings throughout "A Gentle Reminder," which finds Shehan taking inventory of the past, for better or worse, and looking stoically toward the future. He acknowledges the weight of his regrets in "Here Comes the Ride" but sounds up to the task of bearing it. The effervescent "Your Eyes Were Shining" seems on the surface directed to a sweetheart, but when Shehan sings "The heavens opened wide / and let you in," he could just as easily be talking about reconnecting, happily, with his songwriting muse. That theme of renewal re-emerges in the "beating drum" and "beating heart" of "This Is Where It Starts." There, as he likens his visions and dreams to "a rush of blood," fans of The Jealous Sound's open-hearted buoyancy will be happy that the quartet has once again opened a vein.
Indeed, after almost a decade, Shehan is still spilling blood. It's just more mature blood.
