As the year ends, I find myself shuffling through the albums I have accrued over the past months. Each album an experience, an insight gained, a lens changed, I have continually found myself lost in the art that encapsulated the sonic apotheosis of this past year. The experiences captured within these sounds provide themselves as […]
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Drew Caruso’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music
December 10th, 2013 
Drew Caruso 
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Free Download: No Sleep Records Holiday Compilations
November 27th, 2013 Derek Scancarelli As a special holiday and pre-Thanksgiving treat, No Sleep Records is offering free downloads of No Sleep till Christmas 1-3 and No Sleep till the Holidays 1. Stay tuned for an announcement from the label about their forthcoming No Sleep till the Holidays 2, which we are looking forward to. In the meantime, check out […]
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Balance And Composure Release Video For “Tiny Raindrop”
November 13th, 2013 Drew Caruso Balance and Composure’s sophomore release, The Things We Think We’re Missing, is a fantastic album. Probably one of my highlights for the year, the work is a stampeding run of hard rock, tinged with the influences of decades past. Following the first video the band released, for the lead single, “Reflection,” Balance and Composure continue […]
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STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Coheed and Cambria Covers Bastille’s “Pompeii”
October 12th, 2013 Jacob Tender Oh. My. Lord. It has happened. This is the most fantastic thing to happen this year. Coheed and Cambria has covered Bastille. As a life-long fan of the band who has Bastille’s Bad Blood as a fore-runner for my album of the year (right up there with The Afterman: Descension), this is pretty much the […]
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September 23rd, 2013 Dan Bogosian Balance & Composure are one of the kings of the scene this year. Their album, The Things We Think We’re Missing, was hardly missed by critics or fans alike as it’s made its way into the mainstream, being featured on bigger and bigger press outlets and selling out several thousand vinyl in advance. One of […]
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Hear a New Single From Tigers Jaw Off Producer Will Yip’s Compilation Album
September 10th, 2013 Nina Corcoran In just a few weeks, producer and engineer Will Yip will release Off the Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation, a collection of unreleased songs and B-sides by a great round of musicians he’s worked with over the past years. The compilation will feature songs by Title Fight, Circa Survive, Man Overboard, Balance and Composure, […]
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September 9th, 2013 Adrian Garza We’ve heard what could very well become the album of the year, and it sounds great. Now that Pitchfork is streaming Balance And Composure‘s The Things We Think We’re Missing one day before its September 10 release date, you can too! But don’t let your experience with TTWTWM end with an online stream: the record […]
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Balance And Composure Stream “Keepsake” Ft. Anthony Green
September 5th, 2013 Brian Leak Balance And Composure‘s The Things We Think We’re Missing has been high on our most anticipated releases of 2013’s end half. With each advanced stream they release, that anticipation grows. The No Sleep Records five-piece have just unleashed a brand new track from the effort over at MTV Hive and it could quite possibly be […]
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August 12th, 2013 Dan Bogosian In terms of the years most anticipated releases left, you’d have to think Balance & Composure‘s upcoming The Things We Think We’re Missing, out September 10 on No Sleep Records, is going to be a standout. They’ve already streamed a track, and now they’re streaming another, called “Tiny Raindrop,” on SPIN. The lyrics are moving, […]
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Producer Will Yip Releasing Compilation Featuring Circa Survive, Title Fight And More
July 29th, 2013 Grant Trimboli Renowned producer Will Yip plans to release a compilation, entitled Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation, on October 8. This compilation will comprise new and previously unreleased songs from bands including Circa Survive, Title Fight, Man Overboard, Balance And Composure, Tigers Jaw, Daylight, Polar Bear Club, Sainthood Reps and more. Proceeds from this […]
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July 23rd, 2013 Nina Corcoran Indie/emo dudes Balance and Composure have put up a new track off their upcoming album, The Things We Think We’re Missing, for streaming. The song, titled “Reflection”, has already garnered praise from its host site, Pitchfork. Give it a listen here. The song starts out how you expect the Doylestown, PA quintet to sound — until they rush […]
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July 22nd, 2013 Adrian Garza Over two years have passed since Balance & Composure released their massive full length debut album, Separation, and since then, they’ve put out an acoustic EP, a split with Braid, and have found their way onto some of their biggest tours to date. Now fans have a new thing to look forward to on September […]