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Life In Your Way Say Goodbye

April 7, 2008 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Life In Your Way have decided to call it a day. A message posted on the bands website can be read below.

It has become apparent to us that ending now on a good note would be the best way to go out for Life In Your Way. Of course there are specific reasons why it is a good time to end the over 9 years of music, touring, band member changes, hundreds of different merchandise designs, passions and frustrations of being in a band for that long. There is no reason to get into each one; they are just the obvious if you know the life of musicians in this kind of scene.

We’ve loved every minute of it! Some or our biggest joys in life has come from being in this group. Meeting people all around the country and world, getting to know some of our favorite bands and building relationships that outlast a band or a genre. This has been the biggest blessing. The music we’ve been able to write, producers we’ve been amazed with and record labels that have believed in us has been a dream come true. We hope our music will live on for people, having a strong grasp on fans and new fans to come. Without music the world would be entirely boring and even more self-destructive. All in all, LIYW has in no way been a waste of time for any of its members!

We are still looking and waiting for where each one of us may go off to. There has been talk about doing another band with most of the members. It is a definite that we will all be involved in music for the rest of our lives. You can be on the look out for where each one of us might put our time into musically.

We’d like to thank the following people and groups for their support, only more recent ones because the list would go on for ever from the past 9 years: Chad and Solid State/Tooth & Nail, Jay and Seth @ Buzzgrinder, Jay @ Daybreak Media, James and Faveur Fashion, Adam and Charlie @ ThreeBears, Rob and Dan @ Guitar Center Manchester, James and PrintIndie, Joshua @ Merchspin, Jesse and Joshua @ The Anchor in Nashville/Anchor Stage, Ryan Rado, Tara Ruttle @ Back Bay Booking, Scott @ Kobra Klutch, Greg @ Silver Bullet Studios, Orange Amps, Truth Drums, Ernie Ball and most importantly our families, friends, all the great bands we know, The local kids from Connecticut and anyone who has bought a CD of ours.

The band is not over this moment. LIYW is coming up on a full US tour w/ Burden of a Day, Means, For Today and In Fear & Faith. This tour will definitely be the last for most of the country. It will be doing a small tour to Cornerstone in IL. Either way, the last will be local, in Connecticut. We will have some of our favorite bands play (our best friends in music). We’d ask for all to come out, young and old. We will be pulling out old material, songs from all 3 records. This grand finale will happen in late June to July.

Come and catch the last show near you.

Thanks. Joshua and Life In Your Way

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Life-In-Your-Way

Staff Recommendations March 11th 2007

March 11, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Bryce Jacobson
For the pop in you check out Sherwood and Relient K.
For the rock in you check out Kaddisfly, Means, and Life In Your Way.

Julie Watanabe
If you love bands like Cartel and Fall Out Boy you NEED to check out Fleeing From Finales.Ԛ  Despite being native UK-ers, these guys sound like all-American pop/rock fiends–catchy, upbeat, and dancable.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Kaddisfly, Life-In-Your-Way, Means, Relient K, Sherwood

Life In Your Way E-Card

March 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Check out the new Life In Your Way e-card here.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Life-In-Your-Way, Solid-State-Records

Albums In Stores Tomorrow 3-6-07

March 5, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Relient K – Five Score and Seven Years Ago
Lovedrug – Everything Starts Where It Ends
The Higher – On Fire
Deas Vail – All The Houses Look The Same
Kaddisfly – Set Sail The Prairie
Emmure – Goodbye To The Gallows
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Life In Your Way – Waking Giants
Means – Sending You Strength
Photo Atlas – No, Not Me, Never

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arcade-Fire, Deas-Vail, Emmure, Kaddisfly, Life-In-Your-Way, Lovedrug, Means, Relient K, The-Higher, the-photo-atlas

Life In Your Way – Waking Giants

March 4, 2007 By Julie 2 Comments

waking giants

Artist: Life In Your Way
Album: Waking Giants
Label: Solid State Records
Purchase: Smartpunk
Release Date: March 6, 2007

Overall: 7.0
Music: 7.0
Lyrics: 7.0
Production: 8.5

After releasing two albums on Indianola then being dropped from the imprint, Connecticut natives Life In Your Way have teamed up with hardcore Christian staple Solid State for their third outing Waking Giants. If you fancy yourself a fan of melodic hardcore, Waking Giants may be a worthwhile, albeit unmemorable, addition to your record collection. Crafting songs that roar and reign but still remain highly tuneful, LIYW deliver your cornerstone sing/scream breakdowns amidst some admittedly catchy guitar parts.

Produced by veteran “farm man” GGGarth Richardson, Waking Giants delivers on most fronts, never compromising it’s hardcore elements to reach a greater appeal. Tracks like “We Don’t Believe” and “Making Waves” showcase LIYW at the peak of their genre, mixing enchanting chord progression with heavy breakdowns and solid scream/sing choices. Even songs that start off less than brutal eventually find their callousness amongst the melody (Reach The End, Salty Grave). The redone “Threads Of Sincerity” (which appeared on the band’s previous album) sounds more intense than ever, flaunting a self-assured conviction that wasn’t apparent in LIYW’s past efforts. In fact, the greatest thing LIYW has to offer in this album is their ability to punctuate their song structures. In “Worthwhile” beautifully executed vocals are complemented by Joshua’s growls before tearing away into slow-moving savagery.

In my book, there’s a fine line between raw and polished that can make or break a band. All raw and no polish makes for an earache of a listen; over-polished and under-heated lacks the heart that’s central in hardcore. Life In Your Way did a good job tight walking the line, and consequently wrote songs that shirk predictability and rigor. However, I feel the album tries to do too much in the way of proving itself to both the hardcore and melodic hardcore communities. There are lot of great ideas and riffing inherent in this album, but few of them are ever taken to completion. What’s left is something that feels like the first draft of an epic poem–tons of great stanzas, but no ultimate build up and resolution. And although LIYW make it evident that’s what they’re trying to do, the pieces just don’t seem to fit the way they should.

Furthermore, as with many releases in this genre, there’s nothing truly original that Life In Your Way bring to the table. Labelmates As Cities Burn did a similar release two years ago, and while Waking Giants comes across slightly better than Son I Loved You At Your Darkest, it doesn’t stir the tide enough to ever break a wave. This pattern, in general, has plagued Solid State’s name over the past two years. They’ve been signing bands that, for all intents and purposes, have been pretty generic.

With that in mind, if you’ve been a longstanding fan of Life In Your Way, you’ll want to pick up Waking Giants to hear the progression the band have made since leaving Indianola (because it is considerable). However, if you’re a just a passing fan of the genre, move along until something better awakes the giant.

Track Listing:
1. Reach the End
2. Worthwhile
3. We Don’t Believe
4. Making Waves
5. The Shame
6. Salty Grave
7. Help! The Arm of the Mighty
8. Threads of Sincerity
9. The Beauty of Grace
10. Judas
11. Beneath It All:

Standout Tracks:
Reach The End, We Don’t Believe, Making Waves, Threads of Sincerity

Filed Under: Album, Reviews Tagged With: Life-In-Your-Way, Solid-State-Records

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