Mevio, Personality-driven video entertainment, coupons, codes and offers

Five years in the making, passion leaves a trace finds the band returning to the experimental foundation laid with their critically acclaimed geffen debut your body above me. passion bristles with deeply personal epics, each carved out of driving rock & roll, lush electronics and pure savage desire.

Tracks from this brand new, 12-song, self-produced album can already be heard on FX’s promotion for the season debut of “the shield,” in CBS’s “numb3rs,” “ABC’s “6 degrees,” and films the benchwarmers and lovewrecked.

Using the incandescent riffs and soaring vocals that hooked fans in the first place, passion mixes walls of guitar with unexpected moments of synthesizer, breakbeat, and complete emotional breakdown. The majesty of “mine again,” the jet-black remorse of “this night,” the lush electronic loss of “weightless,” the driving blast of "the real you," the ache of "ghost in your mind," the schizophrenic poetry of “pictures of people,” and the slow trip of “the window” – all these different vibes come together to paint a portrait of love and the joy of total obsession.

The album can be pre-ordered at http://blacklabworld.com/blw/pages/thisnight.html
 

In 1998, Paul Durham and his rock band, Black Lab, released their Geffen Records debut Your Body Above Me to critical acclaim. The album yielded the top 10 rock and alternative single "Wash it Away," and the top 40 ac and pop track "Time Ago." Hollywood called, and the band contributed songs to the soundtracks for Can't Hardly Wait, Varsity Blues, Permanent Midnight , and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After a year of touring, Black Lab was poised to fulfill their destiny as "the American U2" (San Francisco Chronicle) when their record label was quickly shuttered. Over the next two years, Durham left his band, fired his manager and moved to LA. "In the end, all I had were my guitars and the songs I was writing." Durham wanted to control the sound around his voice, so he bought a computer and learned to use it. "I had to get back to how it was in high school -- just me and my four-track."

The resulting demos got Durham a new deal with Epic Records. "The first thing I did was buy a giant ProTools system." The only problem was, he didn't know how to install the software. On advice from a friend, Durham hired Andy Ellis to set up his studio. "So, we're sitting around waiting for the computer to reboot," remembers Durham, "And this guy picks up my guitar, without asking. I was cringing inside, afraid of what he would play. But he was great. I wanted to sing over the top of everything he played. Pretty soon, we were writing together."

At 23, Ellis was already an accomplished guitarist, keyboard player and programmer. He had been working as an assistant to some of the best engineers in the business and knew how to twiddle some serious knobs. Durham had found the missing link between what he heard in his head and what came out of the speakers. "Working with Andy is the first time collaboration has ever been easy," says Durham. "Instead of the whole hell-is-other-people thing, we have a blast just making sounds.


Listen to and buy their music  @ music.podshow.com - CLICK HERE