The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

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The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

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UK pressing of this 2006 release, the third album from Long Island's Brand New featuring one bonus track: 'Luca' (Reprisal Version). Formed in 2001, Long Island’s Brand New have built a massive cult following, largely from a notorious live show and relentless touring. The band’s two previous albums (released on indie Triple Crown) have sold over 750,000 copies in the USA. Brand New’s last album (Deja Entendu) is considered by many as one of this decade’s breakout rock releases. 'The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows' became a favorite with MTV and Fuse, as well as a staple with many Modern Rock stations. Its follow up single 'Sic Transit Gloria' became a massive underground hit, fueled by a Marc Webb directed video. The band graced the cover of Alternative Press twice during this release and picked up ink in Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin and The New York Times. The summer of 2006 marked the band’s first US tour in three years. The sellout dates showcased several of the new album tracks, including 'Sowing Season (Yeah),' 'Degausser' and 'You Won’t Know.' Brand New returns to the road with Dashboard Confessional. The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me was produced by the band and longtime friend Mike Sapone. Mixing duties were covered by Rich Costey, whose credits include Muse, Franz Ferdinand and The Mars Volta. Polydor.



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Brand New have specialized in pain ever since the pop-punk emo-rage of their 2001 debut release Your Favorite Weapon. But they've outdone themselves on The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. If the songs on Weapon were paper cuts, the ones here are gaping chainsaw wounds, full of seismic, howling agony. The moody rumbles of 2003's Deja Entendu were pointing here, but this is something else, with Mogwai-level dynamic range and tracks that careen from introspection to fury and back again. Lyrically, lead singer Jesse Lacey's words remain excruciating and harrowing things, but that's nothing new. It's the music propping them up which gives this effort such depth and punch. "Degausser" starts so innocently, then uses a bridge augmented with a bitter children's chorus straight out of The Wall as a lead in to Lacey's bitter refrain of "I'll never say anything right." Then there's the nearly 8-minute "Limousine (MS Rebridge)," epic, and epically sad, constantly threatening to descend into pure cacophony (and eventually succeeding). Repeated listens will tune your ear to the band's still-intact pop sense (especially on "Not the Sun" and "The Archers Bows Have Broken"), which keeps the record lively and unpredictable, and away from becoming a depressing, head-in-the-oven mope. Brand New went through three years of intense recording sessions to make it happen, but it was worth the effort. --Matthew Cooke
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