What the fuck is up?  Everyone have a good holiday?  I have to say mine was rather boring.  Spent most of it sitting on my parents couch watching crappy reality television.  Boredom and an obsession with anything with Davey von Bohlen and J. Robbins’ names on it lured me out to a Maritime show on Saturday.  Still, I went reluctantly, the bitter taste of the last Promise Ring record still lingering in my mouth.  All in all it was a good show, enough to satisfy my nostalgia for that saturated guitar-pop that Davey seems to pull off so effortlessly.  Still can’t help hopelessly keeping my fingers crossed for a Cap’n Jazz reunion tour.
 
Maritime formed in 2003 out of the ashes of The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan. After these two bands broke up, singer/guitarist Davey von Bohlen, drummer Dan Didier (The Promise Ring) and bassist Eric Axelson (The Dismemberment Plan) hooked up and started a band called In English. The group quickly signed a deal with the record label, ANTI-, and hired J. Robbins to produce their record. Robbins had previously produced records for both The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan. After delivering the record to ANTI-, the label heads decided to pass on the record. The band changed their name to Maritime and signed with DeSoto Records.  Since then the band signed to Flameshovel records and Eric Axelson was replaced by Justin Klug on bass.  These tracks are from their latest release on Flameshovel, Heresy and the Hotel Choir, which was released earlier this year.
 
Guns Of Navarone
Love Has Given Up
Pearl
 
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