//03.17.2010

American Ghetto Thank You

With every album we release I post a blog telling you all how it happened, how we recorded it, what it meant to us. With every leak I post a sister blog letting you all know it is ok, we support it and we do this because we love music. After the release we thank you all for the support. It makes sense, right? It has become a habit, a habit that we deliver with all of our hearts with every fresh posting. It is a habit nonetheless. It is a habit with one point: We love you. We are thankful for your support and we are happy to share in something that we feel to be very special. We are happy to be working together to achieve this goal through file sharing, CD burning, blog postings, and Ipod samplings. We need you to do this. Again, we love you for all the help you have given us. Not a bad habit to keep, right? Well, we truly mean it. Well, with American Ghetto that habit was broken. The album did not leak and the album (purposely) did not have a huge push from our label or EVR’s, outside of a few web postings and our twitter accounts. The response? Amazing. Truly beautiful. Through hash-tags and blogs and last.fm accounts you all spread the word. You did it through your love for music, not through hype or buzz. You have no idea how much this all has meant to us. You all planned this and you all made this happen. American Ghetto has been more widely publicized through your online writing and your tumblr accounts than anything we have done in the past. The response has been fantastic and much greater than we could have ever expected for an album that, before March 2nd… and a bit of “The Dead Dog”, no one outside this group had really listened to. Yeah, we had handed out a few copies to our closest of friends and played it for a few of you, but that has only made it that much more exciting to let it out. There were no advance reviews and no chat room discussion. Thank you so much for having faith in us. Thank you. Obviously we owe a big deal of thanks to The Satanic Satanist, who has been huge part of our lives since its release into the world. It helped us enter into our first festival season with the confidence we needed and helped us understand ourselves a bit more, musically. American Ghetto was just the next step of many to come. We plan on doing more releases like this as well as attempting to tackle our songwriting a bit more, until the next release…. Thank you all, we love you.

I need to say this again. Without the help of Rich Holtzman to help us make this happen, it wouldn’t have. Without EVR’s support in our idea for this release, it wouldn’t happen. Without Anthony Saffery, Adam Taylor and Camp St. Studios this would not have happened.

Last but not least. Without you this wouldn’t happen.

Now we start the next step.

john

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Comments:

//20 Comments

wow… you’re amazing! i love your music because you take so much love with it. you don’t make it for money. you make it for soul. and i think it’s naturally that we support you! and… sorry for my bad english. i’m from germany (:
valentin//03.17.2010
the cd is great, but whats even more great, you guys. bands such as yourself and kaykay, fleet foxes, grizzley bear, menomena, rx, and so so so so so many more is such a huge part in my music making and as well for my bandmates. theres a biger picture to music and life you and you guys see it and thats insperation in its self. i can’t wait to have the chance to see you guys live again and talk to you about this smae subject like we have in the past just keep up the good work and doing whats important!
zach//03.17.2010
I can’t believe how huge this “little” release became! I caught you guys in ATX three days after American Ghetto dropped, and EVERYONE was singing along! You guys are easily the future of music and you really have mastered the art of having the most loyal/satisfied fans:) Keep on keepin on! Peace!!
Neilio//03.17.2010
This album definitely deserves all the good publicity
Luke//03.17.2010
Haven’t seen you all since you were supporting Waiters with the Fall of Troy. Really looking forward to the next chance I have to see it again. American Ghetto is an amazing listen. Please don’t stop creating.
Jason//03.17.2010
John… you are the man.
Jake//03.17.2010
I LOVE YOU GUYS TOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brad//03.17.2010
the day you stop writing music i will cry. im not joking.
jacob//03.17.2010
yeah! here in germany i heard the sun on one of the top radio stations! i think that you guys rules! and american ghetto is cool too! and i wish we will hear more songs of you in future!
valentin//03.17.2010
You guys are the best. Great music, great people, great shows, great art… I know my life would be different without you guys. Keeps it up cause i will never stop listening.
Steven//03.17.2010
You’re welcome
Luke//03.17.2010
John, you have too much love inside you; I don’t know how you do it.
kee//03.18.2010
I love all the songs! I’m happy you do this
Keisha//03.18.2010
Check out this promo video I made for the album!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLBEoxkvK00
Pass it along to your friends to help get the word out about the incredible album!
Anthony Bacala//03.18.2010
Dear PTM, Thanks for American Ghetto) AMAZING! First saw you guys on a rainy Thursday nite on a farm in TN…. Try Pensacola next time you think Florida! Can’t wait to c u soon!!
Marcus//03.18.2010
You guys are freaking amazing. I absolutely love American Ghetto. You guys are musical geniuses. I love how much soul you put into your music. I have been to 4 of your concerts in Utah and every one was EPIC. Keep up the good work, you dont know how many people love you.
Rachel//03.18.2010
Just want to say I love the new album. Nebraska would really love to see you guys again soon.
Joshua//03.19.2010
I just saw you guys last night in Cincinnati and it was an amazing show. Just wanted to say that, and American Ghetto is your best album yet! Thank YOU for being such an awesome band.
Joel//03.22.2010
Anything for you guys.
JT//03.22.2010
John, you guys definitely have to come near Philadelphia soon. Every show you guys play is too far for me to go, but I love the new stuff and keep it up man.
Tyler//03.25.2010