Jars Update



Finally, a real press release on Good Monsters is out, find it at jarchives.com.

The release quotes Dan extensively (perhaps because essential has no clue what's going on?):
“I was not sure how all of the experiences of the last few years would translate into music[....] There have been so many things to look at and describe. This record is part confessional, part euphoric love poem, part bitter divorce, and part benediction. It was born out of many experiences and conversations between addicts, failures, lovers, loners, believers, and beggars. And so the language of recovery and the honest discourse about our attempts to live apart from God and apart from each other is a theme. Engaging people who are doing the hard work of laying their lives open to others, and avoiding isolation, has allowed me to see that there is both immeasurable evil and unfathomable good mixing under my own skin and it is grace, mercy and freedom that allow me to not simply be a monster, but to be a good monster.”

The release also reports the album will be comprised of 11 new songs and a cover of All My Tears (Julie Miller). Guests include Kate York, Leigh Nash, and the African Children's Choir (wow).


In addition, FreshReleases.com recently posted an article containing a Jarchives message board post by Dan, regarding the lack of real nominations for Redemption Songs. Quite an impressive response, if you ask me.

More updates will come as they can. By late June, the single from Good Monsters, "Work" will be hitting radios, perhaps I'll find a way to get it.

Posted: Mon - June 5, 2006 at 11:52 AM          

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