Make Do and Mend
| Make Do and Mend | |
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| General information | |
| origin | West Hartford (United States) |
| Genre (s) | Post-hardcore , folk-punk |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | www.makedoandmend.me |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
James Carroll |
guitar |
Mike O'Toole |
bass |
Luke Schwartz |
Drums |
Matt Carroll |
| former members | |
bass |
Mike Poulin |
bass |
Pat Kelliher |
bass |
Tim Casey |
Make Do and Mend is an American post-hardcore / folk-punk band that was formed in West Hartford , Connecticut in 2006 , but now lives in Boston , Massachusetts .
history
Make Do and Mend was founded in West Hartford in 2006 , but later moved to Boston . In 2007 her self-distributed EP We're All Just Living was released . This was followed by the EP Bodies of Water . Both releases were later re-released by Panic Records . The band then toured with Set Your Goals , Comeback Kid and Title Fight, among others .
On November 9, 2010, their first LP, End Measured Mile , was released and received good reviews. Jordan Dreyer, the singer of the band La Dispute , can be heard as a guest musician in the song Ghostal . Make Do and Mend later signed with Paper + Plastick to release their album on vinyl. In 2011 a split EP with Touché Amoré was released .
In 2011 the label Holy Roar Records released the band's complete discography on a double CD. This contains the two EPs and End Measured Mile . In November 2011 the acoustic EP Part and Parcel was released, which contains three new versions of songs from their LP, a Touché Amoré cover and two new songs.
In 2012 the band switched to Rise Records and recorded their new LP Everything You Ever Loved in February . It was recorded, mixed and produced by Matt Bayles ( Mastodon , Minus the Bear , Botch ) in Seattle , Washington . The album was released in June 2012.
Style and reception
The band plays a mixture of post-hardcore and folk-punk. Together with the bands Defeater , La Dispute , Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth, she forms the movement The Wave , but claimed in interviews that it was more a joke within these bands than a particular movement or a subgenre of hardcore.
Discography
Studio albums
- End Measured Mile (Paper + Plastick, Panic Records, 2010)
- Everything You Ever Loved ( Rise Records , 2012)
- Don't Be Long (Rise Records, 2015)
EPs
- We're All Just Living (Self released, Panic Records, 2007)
- Bodies of Water (Panic Records, 2009)
- Part and Parcel (Paper + Plastick, 2011)
Splits
- Make Do And Mend / Touché Amoré Split (Panic Records, 2010) ( Split EP with Touché Amoré )
- Make Do And Mend / The Flatliners Split (Rise Records, 2013)
Web links
- Make Do and Mend at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile . Punknews.org. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (album review) . Sputnik Music. October 27, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ RocksOff.com: Make Do and Mend. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Record Review: Make Do And Mend - Part And Parcel . allschools.de. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ Make Do and Mend Sign with Rise Records, Recording New Record With With Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Rocky Votolato, Minus The Bear, Botch) . The 1st Five. December 1, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Booklet of Everything You Ever Loved
- ^ Punknews.org: Make Do and Mend: Everything You Ever Loved. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- ^ Last.fm: Make Do and Mend. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ ScenebutnotHerd.org: Video Podcast: Make Do And Mend ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )