Hello Sailor
Astro Magnetics (2005-09-27) |
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 Hailing from the northern wasteland of Denver, Colorado, six-piece The Blackout Pact formed in early summer of 2003 as a cunning response to most of the members being kicked out of their former bands. Drawing from influences as pounding and diverse as Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms, and Murder City Devils, The Blackout Pact set out to play uncompromising, melodic, and gritty rock. While innovating a defining style to them, the boys simultaneously emit a genuine loyalty to their rock roots. Incorporating the raw reality of their lives, ranging from homelessness, addiction, and the vast tumult of needing to "be somebody", the band forged music that is emotional and inspirational, yet fun and melodic. A chance meeting with Geoff Rickly, singer of Thursday and Tony award-winning producer, who offered to produce their album, lifted the sunken spirits of the band and opened the window of opportunity they needed to shout their rock and roll gospel to the world. Older, dirtier, and wiser, the band now has the support they need to fully express their music ideals and pure sincerity that all music should be about. At the heart of The Blackout family lays a core of intense loyalty and uncorrupted idealism that will carry them through both future success and turmoil. After signing with Astromagnetics in October 2004, the band began writing their first album in a one room practice space in New Jersey. This windowless lair in an abandoned factory doubled as their home for the length of their stay. Living on despair, peanut butter, and cheap rolling tobacco, The Blackout Pact committed their efforts to creating the most astounding record possible, assisted by Astromagnetics' Alex Saavedra, Marc Debiak, producer Geoff Rickly, and manager Frank Corva, of Triple Crown Records. Adhering to their beliefs of ingenuity and loyalty, these initial friendships paved the way to the future allegiances that would be the glue to bind the stolid ideas and goals of the band and label, and thus create the record they envisioned. What had seemed an Sisyphean task is now a bridge successfully crossed. Thanks to the tremendous help of Astromagnetics, Geoff Rickly, and their obliging (and often good-looking) friends, The Blackout Pact now has the means to both charm and char the minds and memories of whoever crosses their destructively unique path, by means of their exciting music and eclectic forms of licentiousness. |
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