Originally hailing from Long Island, New York, Bayside are ready to rock 2011 with the release of a brand new record, Killing Time. The album, which Alternative Press announced as their most anticipated album of 2011, is set to release on February 22nd.
Bayside lead singer/rhythm guitarist and founding member Anthony Raneri has been waiting 10 years—since he formed the rock group in Queens, N.Y. in the winter of 2000—to make an album like Killing Time, which represents a number of firsts for the band named after his hometown. The album is the band’s debut for new label Wind-up Records after four releases on Chicago based indie Victory Records, including Sirens and Condolences (2004), Bayside (2005), The Walking Wounded (2007) and Shudder (2008), steadily growing their following through tireless touring. Recording their latest at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, N.Y., and Water Music in Hoboken, N.J., with renowned producer Gil Norton [Foo Fighters, Counting Crows, Pixies, Jimmy Eat World], Bayside finally had the time and resources to fulfill their creative vision. “This is a new chapter, a new beginning for us,” acknowledges guitarist Jack O’Shea, who joined the band in 2003 and has played on all five of their albums. “This feels like our debut release. Gil really encouraged us to push the boundaries of what we do, and not to become timid. Having that kind of encouragement from someone so accomplished really gave us the confi dence to be more creative.” One can hear that in O’Shea’s various guitar sounds, from the Dick Dale/Link Wray surf guitar rumble which opens “Already Gone,” to the gnarled, twisted solos in “Sick Sick, Sick” and “It’s Not a Bad Little War,” to the pneumatic rush of “Sinking and Swimming on Long Island” or the frenetic jam that ends “The Wrong Way.” Killing Time takes everything Bayside has learned in its decade in the music business and puts it on display for all to hear.
The first single, "Sick, Sick, Sick" is available now on iTunes.
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