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Acoustic Volume Two
''Acoustic Volume 2'' is the second split album by punk rock singers Joey Cape and Tony Sly, released on June 18, 2012, through Fat Wreck Chords, the sequel to their 2004 album ''Acoustic''. Like the first album, the album features 12 songs, 10 of which are acoustic renditions of songs by the singers' respective bands - Lagwagon and No Use for a Name, with each member also contributing one previously unreleased song. This is Tony Sly's last release before his death on July 31, 2012. Style and reception ''PopMatters'' Matthew Fiander writes that it's "hard to see why [Cape and Sly have] decided to come back to this well, since both seem to be looking forward and producing solid solo records", but regardless "they do take some interesting turns with older material." Cape's album opener "I Must Be Hateful", "his best song here", "gets reworked here into a finger-picked, confessional ballad" with his "honeyed bleat ... pared down to a hush", and with piano on the chorus through which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Cape
Randal Joseph Cape (born November 16, 1966) is an American singer and musician. Active since 1989, Cape is best known as the frontman of the California punk rock band Lagwagon. Cape released his first solo album, ''Bridge'', in 2008. His second album ''Doesn't Play Well with Others'', was self-released in 2011, after he released each song on the album each month of 2010, collecting them all on CD and vinyl in the end of 2010. Biography In addition to his work with Lagwagon, he was the lead vocalist for the experimental band Bad Astronaut until they disbanded due to death of drummer Derrick Plourde and is also a guitarist in the cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Moreover, Joey Cape released two split albums with Tony Sly of No Use for a Name, featuring acoustic versions of Lagwagon and No Use For a Name songs. Both Cape and Sly also contributed one unreleased/new song to the split. Cape's was titled, 'Violet', a song written for his daughter of the same name. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
