BAND BIO
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These struggles make themselves more apparent when taking in the power troika of “Wolves At Night,” “Now That You’re Home,” and “The Neighborhood Is Bleeding” which tells the tale of a patient plotting his escape from a hospital. There is pathos, sure, but to hear “Neighborhood” soaring out of your speakers the hope becomes shamelessly manifest. “I’ll find a way out of here,” says our hero. “Just watch me.”
Like A Virgin’s darkest moments come at the albums’ midsection. “I Can Feel Your Pain” the pleading “Where Have You Been?” and “I Can Barely Breathe” makes up the albums' emotional fulcrum. After the weight lifts with the hauntingly beautiful “Sleeper 1972” (the title being one of Virgin’s subtle nods to Woody Allen – “I think I have more musical inspiration from him than [from other] musicians,” claims Hull) “Golden Ticket” and “Alice and Interiors” (the second nod to Woody Allen) provide us with two of the albums most powerful and elegiac moments. It’s here that we get the Comeback Story… But the film’s not over yet.
Closure is as vital to a great story as the introduction. “Colly Strings,” according to Hull is “the perfect conclusion. The last line of the song is ‘You can’t believe without bleeding.’ For me that stands really true. It’s like you can’t understand life without having to fall and fail. I think that I’m doing something right and have a good concept on the world and I’ll fall again and realize I didn’t know what the hell I was talking about. It’s a vicious cycle that I have every ten minutes of my life.”
Though the band has released the new album on their label, Favorite Gentlemen, and has found distribution through Junket Boy (a company that releases records exclusively to independent retailers), the strength of I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child coupled with the band’s gift for giving powerful performances has already caught the attention record labels big and small. Rather than crack under the scrutiny, Hull is keeping pragmatic: “I think we need to play as many shows as we possibly can and just continue to have fun but maintain as much control as we can over our destiny and try to grow our band organically.”