Leaked Demos 2006
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| Demo album by Brand New | ||||
| Released | December 2, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
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| Length | 40:00 | |||
| Label | Procrastinate! Music Traitors | |||
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Leaked Demos 2006 (sometimes referred to by fans as Fight Off Your Demons) is a collection of previously unreleased recordings by American rock band Brand New. The recordings originally leaked on January 24, 2006 before eventually being officially released on cassette tape nearly ten years later on December 2, 2015. On January 12, 2016 the songs were made available as a pay what you want digital download.
Upon their initial leak in 2006 the tracks were untitled, leading them to be simply referred to by their track listing number. Over the following year, four of the tracks were released, "Yeah (Sowing Season)" and "Luca" were reworked and rerecorded for The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, "Fork and Knife" was rerecorded and reworked as a standalone single whilst "Brother's Song" was released as a B-side entitled "Brothers" and also reworked into another B-side entitled "aloC-acoC". Over the years, official titles were gradually revealed via setlists for the remaining tracks, before the final track listing was announced in 2015.
In an interview in January 2004, Lacey revealed that he had "written a few songs for the next album" and that instead of writing solely on an acoustic guitar he had been influenced by bands such as Radiohead and U2 to try experimenting with other instruments. Over the winter of 2004 the band were "holed up in a house" where they continued writing and recording, and in January 2005 photographer Alexa Lambros posted a number of photographs from the sessions onto her website to much fanfare. With "10 or 11 songs" recorded for the next album the band decided to take a break. Due to Lacey undergoing surgery in early 2005, the band pursuing personal projects, and a number of deaths within the families of each of the band's members, it wasn't until around June 2005 that Brand New reconvened to continue working together. The band found that the material they were now writing sounded entirely different from the material they had previously recorded in the winter of 2004 for the album, and with the exception of a track known as "...YEAH" they decided to scrap the previous session in favor of a clean start.
Over the following months the band worked in Mike Sapone's basement arranging and demoing tracks before moving to Oxford, Mississippi in September 2005 to work with producer Dennis Herring. Due to time constraints the band had to abandon the sessions with Herring, returning to working with Sapone. Whilst in a hotel in Los Angeles, the band's primary songwriter Jesse Lacey wrote five tracks in an evening of songwriting, two of which were the tracks "Brother's Song" and "Good Man".
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