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Recorded with multi-time Gold record producer James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath, Dashboard Confessional), the self-titled EP captures There For Tomorrow’s driving, Technicolor-rich alternative/rock in full bloom. From the sweeping dynamics and emotionally riveting choruses of “Pages” to the rich harmonies and powerhouse riffs of “No More Room To Breathe,” the EP also shows how far beyond their years this still-young group (average age: 18) are as songwriters. “Our sound has been evolving since day one,” says vocalist/guitarist/programming wiz Maika Maile, who co-founded TFT in 2003, “but with these new songs, I feel like we’ve grown as people as well as musicians. Lyrically and musically, these songs are straight-up, honest, and filled with everything we had to give.”
It's easy to picture TFT's hooks and raw emotion grabbing audiences on a wide scale, that's partly because the band first honed their craft in front of a crowd. Just a few years after forming, the group hit the road with a vengeance, finishing an East Coast tour in the summer/fall of 2006 and returning home to win an O-Rock 105.9 (Orlando) competition and play before 10,000 people at the station’s annual “No Snow Show” concert. Additional gigs both large (L.A.’s venerable Key Club; a live acoustic performance on Orlando’s Real Rock WJRR 101.1 FM) and, well, larger (two regional runs on the Vans Warped Tour) didn’t just find TFT reaching more listeners: A chance run-in at one show with James Paul Wisner’s drum tech also put the band in contact with the producer, who worked on TFT’s self-released, 2007 Pages EP before rejoining them to flesh out the tracks for their self-titled Hopeless Records EP.
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