{"id":585,"date":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/08\/14\/interview-head-north-discusses-bands-new-sound-and-the-making-of-their-breakaway-album\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","slug":"interview-head-north-discusses-bands-new-sound-and-the-making-of-their-breakaway-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/08\/14\/interview-head-north-discusses-bands-new-sound-and-the-making-of-their-breakaway-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Head North Discusses Band’s New Sound and the Making of Their Breakaway Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head North<\/a>\u2019s debut full-length album The Last Living Man Alive Ever In The History Of The World<\/em> represents a new direction for the band. The Buffalo<\/a>-based quartet has shed their teenage pop punk angst and emerged from last year\u2019s break with an impressive coming-of-age indie rock venture.<\/p>\n

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On The Last Living Man Alive Ever In The History Of The World<\/em>, singer Brent Martone\u2019s weathered vocals convey a wisdom beyond his youth as he delivers storylines of characters searching for meaning in a dystopian world in which love and God are forbidden. The instrumentation augments the myriad of moods, from the melancholy march in \u201cSort of Medicine\u201d to the frantic breakdown in \u201cPulse.\u201d Experimental elements from spoken word segments to a snippet of bird songs contribute to the authenticity in the story. The result is a work that is honest, ambitious, and creative. It\u2019s as intriguing on the first listen as it is on the hundredth. Maybe even more so.<\/p>\n