Materialistics Tomorrow Is Fat & Old CD

' Just take a look at the band's danceable opening track 'That's Over Now'. A clever title to a song that appears first on a CD. This tune grabs you like a hook to a fish complete with a mimicked Fall Out Boy proclivity in the vocals. Can't be for sure but it seems to me if you're taking 'That's Over Now' too seriously you're missing the point? 'Exactly!' says trumpeter/guitarist/lead vocalist John Wirt. 'I love the emo bands out there right because it totally reminds me of this new generation's adaptation of the 'hair bands' that were big when I was growing up as a kid. We're not an emo band by any means but this song just sort of wrote itself one night and we thought it would be entertaining. The song is completely as serious as it is not serious. The spiteful nature of the lyrics definitely shouldn't be taken to heart.

' The second track on the CD 'I'll Not Stand in the Way' shifts almost 180 degrees from the first track. Instead of a blazing sawtooth keyboard lead and an up tempo beat, this songs starts with just voice and piano. 'It's a lot for the listener to take in,' says bassist Rick Willoughby. 'We just didn't want to pigeon-hole ourselves into saying 'okay we're only going to play this kind of music' or 'we're only going to play that kind of music'. We all listen to so many different styles of music and find an appreciation in all of it.

' The band unquestionably wears many hats. 'Sometimes,' says drummer Giuliano Mingucci, 'we prefer to show our jazz influences as in songs like Miss Construed and The Top.

' This brings us to the other lead vocalist/keyboardist/pianist and composer of the aforementioned songs, Jeremy Watson. 'John's style of writing and my style of writing are comparatively different,' says Watson, 'but we certainly meet somewhere in the middle.