A Thousand Torches (tumblelog)

So far A Thousand Torches has shared 5 songs from our thefamily3 rare song archive for stream & download!

1. The Mayor – Untitled Song
2. The Ciggs – “Bright Eyed Princess”
3. Divest – “Accept” featuring Sean-Paul Pillsworth
4. MATH – “We Were Optional” featuring Orchid
5. The Flatline Symphony – “This Year’s Cliche” Demo featuring Josh Roseboro

All of these songs are unattainable anywhere else!  Thus far the most popular is the Divest song from their unreleased full-length Ghost Town Reckoning featuring Nightmares For A Week’s Sean-Paul Pillsworth.

What’s your favorite of the bunch?

With a band name taken from a Jawbreaker lyric and guest vocals by Rival Schools’ Walter Schreifels, it’s easy to mistake Nightmares For A Week’s Don’t Die as an emo throwback. Granted, that would only behalf a mistake. The New York trio packs its debut album with chiseled, sinewy pop-punk that’s unafraid to rip out its guts and fly them up the flagpole. Singer-guitarist Bill Manley uses maudlin-yet-anthemic songs like “Baby” and “Bear Mountain”—catchy, imagistic confessionals unabashedly in thrall to Jawbreaker’s Dear You—to anchor occasional tracks full of acoustic guitar, organ, and accordion, such as the twangy “Lightning Rod.” There are other inspirations at play—most notably Lucero’s hardscrabble roots-rock, which lately has become the default setting for post-hardcore groups trying to sound grown-up and sensitive—and Manley and crew aren’t afraid to cozy up to the blue-collar grit of The Gaslight Anthem. In spite of an overt derivativeness, though, Don’t Die’s impeccable songcraft and messy catharsis bleed through. If that kind of emotive, unguarded approach sounds quaint at this point in punk history, that’s punk’s fault, not this band’s.

By Jason Heller December 7, 2010

AMP Magazine has posted a full stream of NFAW’s 7” release, Veins, as well as an awesome in-depth interview conducted by thefamily3’s Morgan Y. Evans!  

I’m having a great time listening to the songs while reading the interview!  

Nightmares For A Week’s debut LP, Don’t Die, comes out December 7th on Academy Fight Song Records.  The Pre-Order Packages are up (who doesn’t want a snazzy limited edition t-shirt?).  Or you can just preorder the CD. 

Nightmares for a Week will release Don’t Die via Academy Fight Song on December 7th.

Track Listing

1. You Destroy Me
2. Baby
3. Veins
4. Old House
5. Bear Mountain
6. Our Vessel
7. Alright
8. Lightning Rod
9. New Solitude
10. Breath’s As Hard As Kerosene
11. Don’t Die

Prior to the December 7th release of their debut full-length, Nightmares For A Week will be releasing a limited 7-inch featuring the album version of the song “Veins,” as well as a B-side track “Feelin Blue,” which will see a release date of November 9th, also through Academy Fight Song.

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In light of this news, Nightmares For A Week’s Don’t Die has now been removed from the “Awaiting Release” section of aKt’s Release Calendar and has now been added to the brand spankin’ new “2010 > December” sector!

Earlier this year NFAW was named one of Alternative Press Magazine’s “Bands You Need To Know in 2010.”

Bill Manley, Sean-Paul Pillsworth, Steven Markota

Frank McGinnis (formerly of Frankie and his Fingers, now By Land Or Sea) performed keyboards and James Felice (of the Felice Brothers) performed accordion on the album.  Walter Schreifels (Rival Schools, Quicksand, Gorilla Biscuits) also made a guest appearance on Don’t Die.  It was recorded by John Naclerio at Nada Recording Studio (Anadivine, Armor For Sleep, AutoPilot Off, Bayside, Bedlight For Blue Eyes, Brand New, The Dear Hunter, Drift Division, Jerk Magnet, Joshua, Just Surrender, Matchbook Romance, Midtown, My Chemical Romance, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Polar Bear Club, Senses Fail, These Green Eyes and most recently The Receiving End of Sirens have also recorded at Nada).

This weekend Nightmares For A Week are performing with The Ataris in Albany and Kingston, New York.  Later this month they will be at Gainesville, Florida’s 9th annual “The Fest” (at Jeff’s Deli on Friday, October 29th).

NightmaresForAWeek.com and 
myspace.com/nightmaresforaweek have snazzy new layouts!

A demo of the b-side that will be on the limited 7” vinyl single appears on Neeshland Presents: Butterflies and Butcher Knives Vol. 1 (Hudson Valley).

Oct 23 - Bogies w/ The Ataris - Albany, New York
Oct 24 - The Basement w/ The Ataris - Kingston, N.Y.
Oct 29 - THE FEST 9 - Gainesville, FL
Nov 06 - Copperfield’s - Montgomery, NY
Nov 19 - Snug Harbor - New Paltz, NY

Alternative Press November 2009 issue #256