The Logan

The Logan has finished a campaign of over one hundred shows to promote their first two releases, Taking The Sun With You and BASH! Big thanks to new friends TURDUS MUSICUS from Tromso, Norway for touring with them throughout the west and Midwest in August 2008. BASH!, the title of The Logan's second offering, is meant to fulfill many levels. Most important of these levels, is the gelling of the current four-piece into a whisky-punk-rock sound that is both coercive and fluid: the many collidi...

The Logan has finished a campaign of over one hundred shows to promote their first two releases, Taking The Sun With You and BASH! Big thanks to new friends TURDUS MUSICUS from Tromso, Norway for touring with them throughout the west and Midwest in August 2008. BASH!, the title of The Logan's second offering, is meant to fulfill many levels. Most important of these levels, is the gelling of the current four-piece into a whisky-punk-rock sound that is both coercive and fluid: the many colliding sounds forming a new front-wall of sound that matures beyond their first album, Taking the Sun with You. Still sticking to many of the thematic roots, The Logan provides its political opinions and positive message, this time, spliced with stories of love, betrayal, and life left-of-center. Only a year removed from playing their first concert, The Logan has pushed far and wide to strike an original sound, presentation, and message. Like the marathon rehearsals used to inspire the songs on BASH!, the record swoops in and out of punk rock themes, blending in a sometimes lonely piano with a melancholy acoustic guitar to create an album with a painted vision in mind for the listener. Fist raising group anthems still have the substance of a personal 'me to you' letter. The record grows on the listener and seems perfectly atypical to the current themes today. "I'm a pretty hopeful guy, with idyllic views on how life can be," explains Conor, the lead singer, "but then again, I can also be pretty torn up about what's going on right in front of me." Present time anxiety mixed with big-picture dreaming certainly comes through on tracks like Clothes Make the Man and With the Wheels on Fire. Cirilo Rios, bassist, thinks, "BASH! seems to become more and more important to the listener over time. To me, that's the mark of timelessness."