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"The Billionaires-Really Real For Forever"

The Billionaires – Really Real For Forever / 10 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/billionairesband /

Anyone that knows me knows that I usually just get rid of about 99% of the CDs that I review for the zine. We just get way too many, and I have no room for a vast majority of the ones we receive (also, most of them suck). However, The Billionaires make an album in “Really Real For Forever” that I actually want to hang onto. The band does a blend of retro music (Stripes, Strokes, etc) with The Polyphonic Spree and even throw in a little bit of Matt & Kim and Hellogoodbye into a feelgood, dance-worthy and always catchy brand of rock music. “The End of Summer Song” should, in a perfect world, be rocketing up rotation right now. The same constellation of forces continue during “Highschool High”, but the ultimate sound of the track is incredibly different.

The slower tempo of “Highschool High” gradually speeds up into something comparable to “The End of Summer Song”. However, “Highschool High” has a much more organic feel to it than did “The End of Summer Song”. If I could make a bold comparison, it feels as if The Billionaires removed all the distortion from the Tears For Fears and Psychedelic Furs discographies and united that result with works of The Anniversary. “Eighties Movies” is another track that continues with a slower tempo, but The Billionaires add some new influences to the mix. This means that the track has a little bit of a “Suzanne”-era Weezer present, even if the vocals are significantly more intricate than anything that Weezer could ever dream up. Each of the tracks on “Really Real For Forever” could break it big on any (non-country / religious) radio station in the United States, and hopefully this March release will have that sort of future. The fact that the band takes up all the successes made in the last forty years of rock music and combine it into one eclectic sound is perhaps the strongest part of The Billionaires.

With a lush production that never constricts the act, the resulting album bounces back from seventies rock to nineties alternative and even a little bit of new-folk music. At the end of it all, it never feels as if The Billionaires are a band that are struggling to establish their own sound. Like Family Guy links together pop culture, The Billionaires craft all sorts of musical genres into a cohesive, unique sound. Pick this up.

Top Tracks: Butterflies, Pass The Bottles

Rating: 8.5/10

- Neufutur Magazine


"Red Eye Distribution-Latest Release"

The Billionaires: Really Real for Forever

"Really Real For Forever," the astounding indie pop debut from Los Angeles' own The Billionaires, displays an extraordinary songwriting spectrum. It's hard to imagine one listening to sterling songs like "The End of Summer Song" or "Butterflies" and not coming away all smiles. As the record progresses, the darker moods of "Cold Day" and "Confidence" will haunt you for days. - redeyeusa.com


Discography

Really Real For Forever-April 1 2008 release, Too Soon.
Single:Eighties Movies
Tracks currently getting radio airplay: Eighties Movies, Butterflies, Highschool High, NY Cab

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Our music makes people feel happy. It was first written at a place called Peacegate on Martha's Vineyard where we all pretty much grew up or spent a lot of time. We wrote our first songs as a band late at night at the end of summer '06. September was looming, and we didn't want summer to end. There was no pressure, we had no boundaries, we all took turns and our debut album out April 1, 2008 is what came out of those nights. We are psyched to be the first band signed on Too Soon, a new L.A-based indie label.
Here's a review of our album that we are really happy about.
From Amerikana UK-
"For those of you with an indie pop hangover ‘The End of Summer Song’ is an Alka-seltzer that’ll clear away any post Polyphonic Spree nausea and restore your appetite. There’s about four songs going on at once, a chorus of voices, enough hooks for choir practice and breezy cheesy organ and about as much enthusiasm as you could ever want. These are songs about the transition into the adult world, on the cusp, retaining adolescent exuberance; they explode with energy its like Brian Wilson on hormones bursting with harmonies and ideas. They pass the vocals around like a bottle at a party; you get a sense of the group dynamic, the camaraderie, the closeness, the group. Los Campesinos are the closest comparator that I can think of, utter disregard for musical boundaries; ‘Pass the Bottle’ is like early Beastie Boys when they hadn’t shaken off a love of guitar rock. ‘N Y Cab’ is more like a number from a musical and ‘Butterflies’ a loose folk song – Viking Moses happy maybe – gentle melody with handclaps, quite lovely. ‘Cold Day’ cod electro-pop, sequencer, thin tribal drums, who cares about genres, anything goes. The last song ‘Confidence’ describes what is great about them, the confidence to do what they like, this song subverts everything that has gone before, a single female voice, simple instrumentation, it’s darker, they sing of ‘Lost innocence’ against guitars that grow weighty, distort and give way to solitary piano notes. A signifier for things to come? I hope so."