About
Against Me!
Label: Sire
For Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel, sometimes you have to get the hell, outjust to find your way back in. The past 12 years have seen Gabel rise from
acoustic folk-punk gunslinger in the dives of Gainesville, Florida to releasing
Against Me!’s four searing, blood-smeared slices of scrappy punk. The last of
which, 2007’s New Wave, was the major label debut, one that Spin magazine
anointed as their Album Of The Year. And while Gainesville was home, Gabel felt
the walls closing in when touring for New Wave came to an end. So he split. With
his wife, he left behind the “didja-hear-about-so-and-so” insular Gainesville world
for the sleepy beach town of St. Augustine, wandering the streets and driving
dusty back roads: searching, pining, hoping for inspiration.
He found it in spades. The result is White Crosses, as powerful and as bold a
rock record as one can imagine. The band -– Gabel, guitarist James Bowman,
bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo – roar like fighter jets
screaming over a stadium on the anthemic title-track (with its shout along line
about smashing the 4,000 crosses on a local church’s lawn, ones that ... show more
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