Album Notes

BASH!, the title of The Logan's second offering, is meant to fulfill many levels. Most important of these levels, is the gelling of the current two-piece into a whisky-punk-rock sound that is both coercive and fluid: the many colliding sounds forming a new front-wall of sound that matures beyond their first album, Taking the Sun with You. Still sticking to many of the thematic roots, The Logan provides its political opinions and positive message, this time, spliced with stories of love, betrayal, and life left-of-center.

Still less than a year in existence, The Logan has pushed far and wide to strike an original sound, presentation, and message. Like the marathon rehearsals used to inspire the songs on BASH!, the record swoops in and out of punk rock themes, blending in a sometimes lonely piano with a melancholy acoustic guitar to create an album with a painted vision in mind for the listener. Fist raising group anthems still have the substance of a personal 'me to you' letter.

"I'm a pretty hopeful guy, with idyllic views on how life can be," explains Conor, the lead singer, "but then again, I can also be pretty torn up about what's going on right in front of me." Present time anxiety mixed with big-picture dreaming certainly comes through on tracks like Clothes Make the Man and With The Wheels on Fire.

Relentlessly touring this year, The Logan puts a lot of weight behind BASH!. Having already done two small tours in 2007 to support their first offering, fans from the northwest, mountains, and southern California are excitedly anticipating the new record.

To support this milestone offering, The Logan is teaming up with friends Paper Mache (Spokane, WA) for months of touring throughout the US. Travelling together in a vehicle running off the waste fryer oil from restaurants, their joint goal is to bring their music to the nation, while showing that it all can be done with the common public good and health of the planet in mind.