November_Albums_Blog

There is a means to understanding, and in the middle of the mess means there are Things by which the process is hurried along.

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And for lack of a better word; I’m not an Island.

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Because everyone else is talking about it, does that mean I ought not?

J.T. Daly and Andy Smith composed the vocal portion of my favorite band during my college years (and heaviest songwriting influence at the time), For All the Drifters.

While severely disappointed over their break-up in 2003 (Andy decided he should spend more time with family than travel in a 15-Passenger van), what I didn’t know is that Paper Route would soon after rise from For All the Drifters’ ashes.

Their most recent album, “Absence” — when set against For All the Drifters’ final work, Drifter — is the most verifiable signpost yet of a quite remarkable musical resurrection.