Burning Down

Good King Friday

Burning Down
Performed By Good King Friday
Album UPC 885767931688
CD Baby Track ID 8839486
Label Onyx Lane Records
Released 2011-10-25
BPM 146
Rated 0
ISRC ushm91106937
Year 2011
Spotify Plays 164
Writers
Writer Kelly Caswell
Pub Co Good King Friday
Composer Kelly Caswell
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Rights Controlled Master and Publishing Grant
Rights One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country United States - California - LA

Description

Combining huge sounds with intimate lyrics, L.A.’s newest symphonic pop-rock band Good King Friday comes as a breath of fresh air with their debut CD.

Notes

Good King Friday, named after the character from the show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, formed after members of the avant-garde classical group the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble played a show at Spaceland in Silverlake, CA, met up with some long-lost friends, and got down to writing some serious symphonic rock. After seven months of slaving away at writing, arranging, and producing their first album, GKF has something that they hope puts a little extra beauty into the world.

At the album's heart are the connections within the band. Canadian Patrick and Chicagoan Audrey met Los Angeles girl Christina playing rough-and-thorny classical music together at the University of Oklahoma. Christina introduced them her L.A. childhood friends, siblings Kelly and Chris. Kelly, Chris, Christina, and Nathan had attended high school together in Valencia, California, and, after crossing paths for the first time in years at that show in Silverlake, Nathan and Kelly were married to each other a little over a year later. As the band grew author Matt Kolbet, Nathan’s brother-in-law, joined the ranks with his dynamic and thought-provoking lyrics.

Each song on the album sways and shakes to the tune of a dozen different influences filtered through late-night rehearsals and later-night conversations until they all speak with the same unique voice. Arrangements and lyrics and choruses were sent back and forth over email until each song was fully documented through hummed parts, midi takes, scores, scratch tracks, and email chains. All these puzzle pieces and bits of sound and verse came together to make this album something beautiful and new.

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