Atlanta’s Authors Apology plays boisterous heart-on-sleeve bar rock filled with big, ringing guitars and chiming organs. It’s quintessentially American, and at first listen you may want to label them as another bunch of overwrought up-and-comers aping Springstreen through the lens of more modern acts like The Hold Steady. But on Better Left There, the band’s debut release, front man Keith Bailey delivers his hard luck tales of broken families and jilted lovers with such plainspoken honesty and the band plays with such unabashed punk urgency that even the most assuming moment becomes an exercise in liberating catharsis. What began for me as just another collection of solid but unremarkable booze-fueled anthems to wade through, has through repeated listens become one of my favorite local releases of the year. Go figure.
Download and/or stream Authors Apology’s first single, “Driven,” below.
Stream and Download: Authors Apology – “Driven”
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The 8-song Better Left There is due out next Tuesday, September 28th, via the Stickfigure offshoot, the Gospel of Rhythm Recordings. You can check out the cover art and track list below.
Authors Apology will host their CD release show this Friday, September 24th, at the Drunken Unicorn. Labelmates All Night Drug Prowling Wolves are also scheduled to perform, along with Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters.
Better Left There Track List:
01. Trains Returning
02. Driven
03. A Sister’s Hand
04. Last Night in Quepos Town
05. Watercolors
06. A Losing Ticket Cannot Give Advice
07. We Can Always Stumble
08. Take the Reigns
More Info:
Web: www.authorsapology.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/authorsapology
not bad sounds alot like early athens, georgia bands
Yeah, I hear that too. The album is a definite grower. Well worth checking out.