Safety Meeting Records

Titles' Sleep-Inducing Fact Sheet:

In mid 2004, due to a post-college get-your-shit-together freak-out, a small Connecticut rock band fell apart. Everyone got jobs and moved about the country.

A few months after the band's break-up, guitarist Brad Amorosino began a solo project. He wrote, played a few shows, and then banded with drummer John Miller. TITLES, the duo, gained some musical clarity and
recorded an album. Bassist Adrian van de Graaff joined the band in the studio.

The self-titled album was released in September of 2006 on Connecticut's Welcome Home Records. Soon after the record's release, Matt Wilson joined the band on guitar and pedal steel. TITLES threw out their songs and started over.

In February of 2007, after moving into a squirrel-infested house on the New Haven shoreline, TITLES recorded 3 songs at Tarquin Studios with Greg Giorgio (The National, Boxer). While pending the release of these songs, the band tracked their second LP, also with Giorgio.

New Haven's Safety Meeting Records released the TITLES/Mountain Movers split seven inch in May of 2007 and the band completed a small mid-west/east coast tour. The second Titles LP, Up with the Sun, is
scheduled for release in May of 2008

Titles' Official Website
Titles' Myspace Site

Titles' Press Contact:
David Lewis, The Marketing Dept
david@marketingdept.org
marketingdept.org

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SMR O3 + Mountain Movers/Titles Split Picture Disc + 5/8/07

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SMR O9 + Up With The Sun + 5/08

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Quiet Life is a candle with ecstatic wax and wick, modern burn and recycled light. Their blend of classic country/folk and indie/rock is one of the most genuine combinations being fused across modern America. Hailing from the whaling city of New London, Connecticut, this four-member rock outfit has all the sincerity of their great folk predecessors, influenced by the true honesty of American folk music and the raw expression of rock and roll's forefathers. Four boys with the enthusiasm of a young Bruce Springsteen and an undying determination to be heard, anxious to stay true to the roots of rock and roll, while adding a flavor of the new.

"Pleasant chord progressions, soft harmonies, and enough of a Southern wail to double check the band's Connecticut address."
- Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Quiet Life Myspace Page

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The Weigh Down arose from the charred remains of Seagrave and Leaves of Lothlorien in December of 1998. They released Good People in the Making in early 2001 on Meeting & Passing Records. After touring extensively throughout the country, opening up for such acts as Bright Eyes, Frank Black, Pedro the Lion, Cursive, and the Dismemberment Plan, Matt brought a set of narratively linked songs to the table, giving focus to the band, and Welcome to the Family Zoo was brought into the light. Weigh Down worked on this material for the next two years and the song writing process became increasingly collaborative. Looking to add new tones and textures, they took on keyboardist Emily Lee in late 2003. They set up camp in Mitch Rackin's Tone Float Studio in Chinatown and began recording Welcome to the Family Zoo in April. Weigh Down worked on the record through 2004 (into 2005, actually), taking the time to make sure everything sounded exactly as intended. And now, finally finding a home in Safety Meeting Records, the end result of several years' work is ready to be embraced by all.

The Weigh Down Myspace Page

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SMR O4 + Quiet Life / Widower Split 7" + 7/24/07

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SMR O8 + Act Natural + 3/4/08

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SMR O6 + Welcome to the Family Zoo + 9/4/07

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SMR O7 + At BAR 8-12-07 + 12/14/07
300 Limited Press Run

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