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The Habit was born in the vocals. The diversity & distinctiveness of voices that ranges from folk and country to all-out rock. From the start, the group had one goal in mind: play American music. The music steeped in the language of the immigrants who made the music “American”. The idea tossed around was to call the band “Dirt”. Dirt being the common denominator. Through the fingers, the feet and the language of a hundred years or so of recorded music, and the soot that came before. Ultimately, they settled on The Habit. The “habit” being the tendency to wander … and The Habit EP is stocked with traveling songs. Moving for comfort, for reward, or out of necessity, through the observations of four different lead vocalists. When country/folk guitarist Brian Mendes, indie/punk rock guitarist Will Croxton, keyboard player Siobhan Glennon, avant jazz bassist Drew Goldstone (all singers), and drummer James Pelletier got together, they talked about John & Alan Lomax's cataloging songs that never made themselves to page. American folk songs. Written and rewritten, sung and spoke, played, improved or ruined by every artist or group of artists known and unknown since the birth of recorded music. This would be the template.
The EP is available now on CD and at all major download sites.
Track listing:
1. The Habit
2. The Killer
3. Son of the Desert Am I
4. The Night's Too Long
5. Wrong
6. Hard Travelin'/Hellbound Train
7. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?
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