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Self Titled EP

by The Cherry Tree Parade

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1.
Reflect? 02:39
2.
Perfectly Polyphonic 04:03
3.
June Bugs in July 03:39
4.
Pity Party for Penny 03:45
5.
Get Down and Other Metaphors 03:50

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Imagination.

A lot of us are taught at a very early age the importance of not only having one but using it frequently. As children we are met with glorified sock puppets on public television, glossy picture books, gaudy animated films, and bespectacled, well-intentioned preschool teachers. Couple it with a junk food diet in the age of information and it’s no surprise that 2009 is rife with prepubescent 4th-generation mall punk dipped in a candy coat of harsh neon fragments. Zombies, pirates and ninjas have become worthy talking points. Detachment, irony and denial are, collectively, the new black. Everyone’s got a wink and a smirk but no one’s got a single secret to tell.

Jon and Matthew Collins, blood brothers and original members of Kansas City, MO, band, The Cherry Tree Parade, have managed to tap into something much less scatter-shot without sacrificing the potential for a broad appeal even among the most casual and distracted of listeners. Their 2009 self-titled 5-song EP contains the running narrative of a man consumed by the trauma of love, sex and death doing his best to buoy his obsessions against his dark reality. Musically, it sways and shimmers elegantly; multiple vocal harmonies and dual melodies coo and burst over a bed of melodic pop that’s as informed by indie heavyweights The Shins and The Postal Service as it is by film composers Jon Brion and Ennio Morricone. Guitars go from sprightly to sinister, keyboards churn and bubble along, and nearly every track ends with a refrain that you’ll have difficulty getting out of your head.

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released March 15, 2009

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