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"Diversity is a wonderful thing. If there is one thing I’ve continuously harped upon in my past reviews, it’s that to be enjoyable for the entirety of an album a band must be able to change things up every now and then. Few bands are able to stray from their core sound while still retaining a certain level of quality throughout. Telephone & Telegraph do an admirable job of pulling this off on their release North South East West. Telephone & Telegraph are a rock band with a heavy southern flair; probably the best way to describe them is as a more upbeat Lucero or a less gritty Nothington. “Sea Legs” makes for easily the best song on the album. “All the Kids Are Gonna Hate Us” follows suit and shows the band picking up speed to completely revitalize the album. Track nine, “Lost and Found,” brings out the harmonica and shows the band is able to pull of the slower sound suitably well. “’Neath the Sycamore Tree” closes things out with a haunting tone not shown on the rest of the album. However, as a closer it works perfectly and is a fitting end to North South East West. Telephone & Telegraph are a promising band with plenty of room to grow. Their ability to stay well within their southern rock home while at the same time making their music interesting is not something to be overlooked. They seem to have a good grip on something that seems to elude and consequently hinder many otherwise great bands. - Absolutepunk.net
"Diversity is a wonderful thing. If there is one thing I’ve continuously harped upon in my past reviews, it’s that to be enjoyable for the entirety of an album a band must be able to change things up every now and then. Few bands are able to stray from their core sound while still retaining a certain level of quality throughout. Telephone & Telegraph do an admirable job of pulling this off on their release North South East West. Telephone & Telegraph are a rock band with a heavy southern flair; probably the best way to describe them is as a more upbeat Lucero or a less gritty Nothington. “Sea Legs” makes for easily the best song on the album. “All the Kids Are Gonna Hate Us” follows suit and shows the band picking up speed to completely revitalize the album. Track nine, “Lost and Found,” brings out the harmonica and shows the band is able to pull of the slower sound suitably well. “’Neath the Sycamore Tree” closes things out with a haunting tone not shown on the rest of the album. However, as a closer it works perfectly and is a fitting end to North South East West. Telephone & Telegraph are a promising band with plenty of room to grow. Their ability to stay well within their southern rock home while at the same time making their music interesting is not something to be overlooked. They seem to have a good grip on something that seems to elude and consequently hinder many otherwise great bands. - Absolutepunk.net
Discography
Full length album, "North South East West" released on Roam The River Records, summer 2007. Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Smartpunk.com, and Interpunk.com
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Bio
T&T has been together since 2005, in various forms, with the core members being songwriter Chris Woodhead and Chris Spratlen. The idea was to start a "country rock" band. Using this as our starting point, we could go almost anywhere, considering the countless variations of "country" and "rock". We try to keep the driving, kinetic quality of the punk and hardcore we grew up listening to very apparent, while adding the "you can't go wrong" rock influence of greats like The Boss, The Band, Neil Young and Tom Petty. A key element for many of the aforementioned artists, and in every great country and western song ever written, is storytelling. T&T lyrics attempt to project a clear visual while listening and reading. There are autobiographical details all over "North South East West", our first album. The tales continue on new tracks like the Springsteen-esque "Earthquake Weather", and the powerful murder ballad of "What Kept You All Night?" Newer artists whose work we admire are Ryan Adams, The Hold Steady, Lucero, Constantines, Magnolia Electric Co., and My Morning Jacket, among others. Jam oriented ideas utilized by some of these artists are an influence as well, as shown on "'Neath The Sycamore Tree", the 7+ minute finale of our album, which stretches to 15+ at many a show. Ambitious Americana with punk energy? Thats a decent description. We love to play, have been known to bleed on stage, and fling lots of sweat. Thank you.
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