Anthem Of The Peaceful Army [VINYL]

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The band notes, lead single “‘Meeting The Master’ peers into an esoteric world heeded by the word of a wise teacher. Sung in the voice of a devout believer, and eventual group exclamation, the song details the love these fervent followers have for their teacher and their firm belief in his vision. It’s an exotic spiritual journey. A dark comedy that inevitably ends in chaos.” Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, var. 5): 187353E1/A2 B0027675-01A MRP1782/B002767501-A JN-H STERLING The young men also absorbed the literature favored by his father, a chemist with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. (Their mother is a science teacher.) “We had a lot of books that maybe children shouldn’t read, by Nietzsche and Sartre,” he said. “It was all very interesting.” Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, var. 2): 187353E1/A2 B0027675-01A MRP1782/B002767501-A JN-H STERLING

The fact that some consider the result bombastic doesn’t faze him. “I can get on board with that,” he said. Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, var. 1): 187353E1/A1 B0027675-01A MRP1782/B002767501-A JN-H STERLING Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, var. 4): 187353E1/A2 B0027675-01A MRP1782/B002767501-A JN-H STERLING At the same time, he recognizes the value of becoming a lightning rod. “If you drop flaming nitrous in someone’s lap, I think they’ll notice” he said. “It’s a sign that we’ve done something to arouse people in some way or other.”But, “in the end. you don’t give a shit. You abandon fear because it only hinders you as a performer.”

The E.P. stirred both enthusiasm and criticism, as for some GVF were sounding a little too much alike Led Zeppelin. We didn’t really have to force or be intense about writing, because everything that happened was very instinctual,” Jake says. “If anything, the record is our perspective, and sums up where we are as a group and individually as musicians.” Pressed further about the uncommon level of criticism the band has received, Kiszka did allow a trace of ire. “Some people are writing their articles in their mother’s basement and they’re pissed off that we’re doing something,” he said. “If your career is writing negative things about people, I would think you’d have something better to do.” Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, var. 3): 187353E2/A B0027675-01B MRP1782/B002767501-B B20 JN-H STERLINGAt the same time, the album continues the lyrical bent of their debut. The titles of both sets employ war imagery. “We thought that would be a good through-line because war has been here since the advent of man,” Kiszka said. “There’s always conflict – from wars of religion to wars of industry.” The band took multiple concepts from critically acclaimed second album The Battle at Garden’s Gate and brought them into Starcatcher, although Sam’s take on the new record’s big ideas hint instead at new beginnings. “When I imagine the world of Starcatcher, I think of the cosmos,” he says. “It makes me ask a lot of questions, like ‘Where did we come from?’ or ‘What are we doing here?’ But it’s also questions like, ‘What is this consciousness that we have, and where did it come from?’” Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, var. 4): 187353E2/A3 B0027675-01B MRP1782/B002767501-B JN-H STERLING If the result has divided listeners, the singer’s look has pushed things to the limit. On the band’s Saturday Night Live performance last season, Kiszka wore a get-up he designed himself which NPR described as a cross between “a beaded curtain and a yarn bomb”. Even the singer’s stature (at 5ft 6in) has come in for cruel descriptions, causing many a YouTube commenter to compare him to Bilbo the Hobbit.