Harmlessness

World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die, The

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On September 25th The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die release Harmlessness, their second full-length and first for the legendary punk outlet Epitaph Records.

The album is a breakthrough for a band that has built a following crafting striking melodies, poignant narratives, and confident, compelling songs out of their own complicated and imaginative aesthetic. The album ranges from the hushed folk of opener “You Can’t Live Here Forever” to the epic, grandiose “Mount Hum” – spanning the bedroom pop of the band’s salad days to the sweeping scope of 2013’s Whenever, If Ever, and beyond.

Founded by guitarist/singer Derrick Shanholtzer-Dvorak, guitarist/singer Tyler Bussey, and bassist Josh Cyr in 2009 in the post-industrial mill town of Willimantic, Connecticut, The World Is a Beautiful Place’s early records were atmospheric, impressionistic tone-poems, balanced somewhere between the twilit emo of American Football and Christie Front Drive and the pensive, mood-heavy post-rock of The Appleseed Cast and Yo La Tengo.

The band cites Bedhead, Don Caballero, Sun Kil Moon, and mewithoutYou as influences – all artists that have approached the art of making albums as a collective enterprise. Written as a group, Harmlessness finds the band developing some of its very best songs, even as certain tracks sprawl and stretch into abstract shapes. – TWIABP (you don’t have to write it out every time);

For fans of American Football, the Get Up Kids, Modern Baseball and Tigers Jaw.

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Track Listings

1.You Can't Live There Forever
2.Blank #11
3.January 10th, 2014
4.The Word Lisa
5.Rage Against the Dying of the Light
6.Ra Patera Dance
7.Mental Health
8.Wendover
9.We Need More Skulls
10.Haircuts For everybody
11.Willie (For Howard)
12.I Can Be Afraid Of Anything
13.Mount Hum

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