Hunters Run 'Forgotten Souvenirs of the Modern Age' album

The music of Hunters, Run! is as diverse as the city it hails from. Songwriter Larry Hess’s influences range from pop to punk to prog to country, producing a completely unique blend of indie rock that combines quirky and intoxicating rhythms with infectious melodies and intelligent lyrics. The final sound falls somewhere in between the works of Elvis Costello, Husker Du, Talking Heads and The Beach Boys. With their sophomore album, Forgotten Souvenirs of The Modern Age, Hunters, Run! has produced an album more diverse and complex than its debut Broken Sounds, which met with heaps of praise and helped establish the band as an NYC favorite. These are sophisticated songs played with reckless abandon.

Hunters, Run! was started in late 2004 after a chance meeting at a New York City strip club between Larry Hess and Nelson Colon. Hess's previous band, The Feud, had just broken up and he was looking for an outlet for songs he had been working on. The Feud was an experimental, instrumental band, but Hess's writing was moving in a more streamlined direction based more on vocal arrangements and lyricism. Colon, who ran a Brooklyn studio, decided they should flesh out the songs there. After recording 4 songs with the two of them playing every instrument, they decided they needed a live band.

Steve Shodin was recruited to play guitar. Dan Fodera, an experimental filmmaker and childhood friend of Larry's was brought in on bass. Nelson brought along Doug Fallone, a traveling vagabond who claims to play over 100 instruments.

In 2006 they released their first album, "Broken Sounds", and toured extensively for the release. In February 2007, the band headed down to Nashville to record with Will Walker in the new studio he was building. The sessions were fraught with tension and Shodin left the band after the ensuing tour. They brought the basic tracks back to New York and completed the record with engineer Andrew Watson in their own Two Tiger studio. When the album was finished an enigmatic art collector known only as The Bone (a former member of The Feud) joined the band on guitar and the new lineup was set. The album, "Forgotten Souvenirs of the Modern Age", will be released on January 22nd through their own Battle Standard Recordings.

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