“Opposite Sides“
from the album The Epochs
2008
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For brothers Ryan and Hays Holladay, the craft of songwriting has always been closely linked with that of recording. From their earliest days of musical collaboration in elementary school, they employed computers and tape machines to not only document their songs but to begin sculpting their sound. A sound that could be called a distant relative to pop music. A sound that would later become the musical foundation for the Epochs.
The band’s self-titled debut comes in February. It is a big, varied sounding record. Ranging from the bombastic electronics on “Opposite Sides,“ to the seething orchestration and manipulated guitar of “Mouths to Feed,” to the playful ryhthms of “Giving Tree,” it never stops in one place musically long enough for it to be pigeonholed into a category. And it is this restlessness that gives the group its unique sound.