Dylan Disaster and The Revelry - All Roads PRE-ORDER
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER OF THE LIMITED 1st PRESSING WITH 2 COLOR SPLATTER VINYL THAT WILL BE RELEASED ON MAY 31!
This is the third LP for Disaster and the first to equally bill his full band The Revelry. Features lead-off single “Nothingness” and 11 more soaring anthems, following up 2019’s Remission.
Austin, TX — “‘Anthemic’ is actually a word we use to describe our music,” says Dylan Disaster, easing into discussing his new LP All Roads, out May 31 via his own Travel Well Records (USA) and Ring Of Fire Records (Europe). “We often say it‘s anthemic punk rock with a hint of Americana.”
The limited 1st pressing of 500 copies comes with an awesome b/w splatter vinyl.
All Roads will be the first of his three LPs to be issued with his Austin all-star band Dylan Disaster and The Revelry receiving full billing. Besides Disaster on lead vocals and guitar, The Revelry features acoustic guitarist Guido Crimes, lead guitarist Will Days, bassist Nathan Holman and drummer Marc-Alan Prince. All also chime in on backing vocals.
Disaster, the Long Island born-and-bred former singer/guitarist for Buried Cities and guitarist/backup vocalist in Knockin’ Bones and Nowherebound, admits a perpetual fondness for “writing big hooks and big sing-along choruses.” As evidenced by lead-off single “Nothingness,” All Roads’ 12 tracks don’t even begin to be encompassed by that statement. These choruses aren’t merely big – they’re HUGE! Punk bands have traditionally featured gang “WHOA-WHOA!” vocals. Rarely were they harmonized, like the Beach Boys in black. It’s a warm, bright sound that takes up the whole room, like a sunny day in the month of May.
Every song is pretty dense lyrically, so it’s not surprising if some of the meanings might be obscure to the composer initially. But the musicality is also fairly thick, with “Betty And Her Boys” dropping in a ska section, and folk underpinnings infusing tracks like “Well-Traveled” and the gospel-inflected “The Wreckage.” But it’s hardly surprising all this melodious diversity weaves through All Roads, considering most every member of The Revelry is a talented multi-instrumentalist. Crimes comes courtesy of The Hudson Falcons and Threes Away. Days was originally The Revelry’s drummer, but his singing and guitar skills were too potent to let go to waste. Mind you, a past in Belligerence and Ready. Steady Go! and a present in Starving Wolves, AstroGat and Despero means that’s unlikely to happen. Disaster encountered both Holman and drummer Prince in garage blasters Knockin’ Bones. Holman has also scrubbed guitar in The Butts. Prince also drums for Avenues, and has his own solo project he tends to.
As for the band leader? “I‘m from New York,” he says. “I played music in New York. I played in bands throughout high school and came up listening to and following East Coast bands like The Movielife, Silent Majority, Kill Your Idols, Kid Dynamite, The Bouncing Souls, H20, and Avail. I did a stint in California and in Portland but the first major thing I did was a band called Revenants here in Austin, Texas in about 2010. Revenants turned into Buried Cities — I was a singer and lead songwriter for Buried Cities while I played in Knockin‘ Bones with Nathan and Marc-Alan for a while and I was also the rhythm guitar player for Nowherebound. It was a busy couple of years. Then towards the end of that, around 2017, I started really focusing on the solo stuff. My first solo record [Dylan Disaster] came out in 2015. I re-mastered and re-released it in 2017 to accompany my first solo European tour. Then in 2019 I released my second record, Remission. That‘s when I kind of came out with a full band, Dylan Disaster and The Revelry.”
All Roads was recorded at Little Eden studio, in Asbury Park, NJ by Pete Steinkopf of The Bouncing Souls and mastered at The Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, CO by Jason Livermore.
With All Roads’ release, Dylan Disaster and The Revelry are about to soundtrack a lot of spilled beer, walls running slick with sweat, and strained vocal cords, as listeners punch the sky and scream along with new anthems like “Old Souls” and “Glory.” And that’s just in the safety of their bedrooms or commuting to work in morning rush hour traffic!