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"The Young Republic — Modern Plays"

Recorded and Produced by the Young Republic

Recorded in dormitories and practice rooms around Boston then finished in the country music capital of Nashville, Modern Plays mixes together down-home sensibilities with an eclectic music school style. These nine students of the Berklee College of Music work together to arrange their songs, drawing from a wide breadth of influences. The songs all have fluid movement and often, complex arrangements. They sound like a weekend of backyard barbeques and old wooden porches, art film openings, and post-modern ballets. The songs are filled with rich strings and a sweet whispering flute, giving the album a touch of the imaginary. The first time one listens to “Between October and December in Boston” you’ll think you’ve heard it somewhere before. Did Bowie sing that line? It’s not that it sounds too derivative of any particular song. It touches on a sense of the timeless. Existing in space, not in time. You could hum it on a Saturday afternoon in high school, or when you hear it on the oldies station at work twenty years later. It’s by far one of the album’s best choices for a radio single. “Marissa’s Lament” will swell up inside you, with perfume and sweat and sweet summer air. The ambient orchestration in “You Move Like the Flowers” gives the song an ethereal quality. It’s like a daydream on a sunny afternoon after lunch when you’re lying in the grass and the world seems vivid, crisp, and real. “Blue Skies” opens like a Broadway overture then turns into one of the disc’s other possible radio singles. The melody is catchy and it wraps itself around in instrumentation, reflecting just enough hope to get up and keep going, with heart in hand. The Young Republic embodies easy listening for a generation that grew up without a cold war. Bringing back tastes of the old world with the cautious sense of reality that comes in a world where everyone grows up too fast. (Self-released)

-Christopher Wilkey - PerformerMag


"The Young Republic"

The Young Republic just might be America's answer to Belle and Sebastian. Sure, we've tried before with the likes of Math and Physics Club, but those bands always wind up veering off into the twee area. But not The Young Republic. They've only released a handful of records, but they're getting close to perfecting their pop craft. If you were a little let down by B&S' new release, I'd definetely check these songs out. - You Ain't No Picasso


Discography

Always Together / The Painter
Your Heart Belongs in Tennessee
Girl From the Northern States Tour 2005
Merry Christmas Again...
Modern Plays
Take the Moral High Ground Tour 2006
YR 7

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Everyone met their first day of school. They like music and wanted to play it some time. One of the kids had some songs. They played them and in a big suprise, they liked them too. They started to play the songs a lot, and they started to sound pretty good, so they recorded a couple of them. Then they wanted to play them for other people. They played in and around their school, but wanted to play for more people, so they drove around and played for people where ever they could. They came back to school and played new songs and recorded new songs. They played for more people in boston. They recorded again and then they drove around again. Finally some one noticed (End of the Road Records), and now they will soon get to drive around europe and play for them.