Sunday, March 7, 2010

House of Fools


Alright, can we first recognize that in this picture of the band there is ONE guy not looking at the camera... why would they use this?! Couldn't they have been like "hey Jim! Look at the stupid camera please... no one is going to care if you're looking at a squirrel over on the side!!"
Anyway... this band is House of Fools... I stumbled upon them about three years ago when they first released their album. It's weird... but I love it.
So the band is from North Carolina. There are SIX, count'em SIX guys in this band. Josh King is the vocals of this band and he has a kind of mellow voice put to rockish happy -go-lucky music. David McLaughlin (I don't think there's a relation to Sarah McLaughlin) plays lead guitar and backing vocals. Joel Kiser (pronounced like the bun?!) also plays guitar. Matt Bowers, probably my favourite in the band... plays keyboards (ya I know the obsession with piano deepens and deepens). Now. A very cool thing about this band... which I've started to notice a fair amount of bands do is THEY HAVE TWO DRUMMERS!! I know so cool.. anyway. Their two drummers are Jordan Powers (who used to play for another awesome band called Far-less) and Phil Bell, who makes me wonder if he also is good at playing Cow-bell... just because of his last name... it's a legitimate question right? Wouldn't that be cool.... Phil Bell plays the COW-BELL!!
Their songs are filled with awesome hidden meanings and metaphors and a cool spin on life too. The lyrics and melodies are super catchy and, if you feel like singing like a weirdo, you can sing along easily!! The best part!
NOW. The picture above, is the cover of their latest album. Called Live and Learn. It's old, released in 2007, but according to my wicked friend, Wikipedia, they're trying to release their most recent album, it's done but there are some troubles with putting it out or something. They also attribute the forever-ness between albums to their constant touring. Which they do all the time BUT I have yet to see them and everyone who has seen them I am incredibly jealous! Youtube videos lead me to believe that they put on a really good show!

Now, songs to download by this awesomely mellow band?

I Heard a Rumor
Pour Me Out
Live and Learn
Kiss the Haze
Coke and Smoke

I Heard a Rumor... AMAZING. The end is so epic so climatic and his voice is so cool and different. Best line is ANYTHING WORTH SAYING IS BETTER OFF UNSAID! Oh god. In such an awesome voice. Holy poop. It's love.

Pour Me Out... ok so trying to find the underlying meaning of this, I'm going to say it's about love? Maybe... either way it's so good.

Live and Learn. The title track. Enough said. It's awesome. Holy.

Kiss the Haze. It's upbeat and has King's mellow voice to a upbeat background...

Coke and Smoke. Not for the morals of the title of this song, but that's beside the point. But it's good. It's sort of acoustic, as in there's more acoustic guitar than the other songs and kind of makes me feel all fuzzy on the inside. YAY!

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