Touché Amoré

Touché Amoré
Jeremy Bolm performing with Touché Amoré at Highfield Festival 2014
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Post-hardcore screamo melodic hardcore emo
Years active	2007 (2007)–present
Labels	Epitaph, Deathwish, 6131, No Sleep
Associated acts	Dad Punchers/Warm Thoughts, Hesitation Wounds
Website	toucheamore.com
Members	Jeremy Bolm Nick Steinhardt Clayton Stevens Elliot Babin Tyler Kirby
Past members	Jeremy Zsupnik Tyson White

Touché Amoré is an American post-hardcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2007. The band consists of vocalist Jeremy Bolm, guitarists Clayton Stevens and Nick Steinhardt, bassist Tyler Kirby, and drummer Elliot Babin. Alongside several EPs, they have released four studio albums: ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse in 2009, Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me in 2011, Is Survived By in 2013 and their latest album Stage Four, released on September 16, 2016 via Epitaph Records.

The band released their debut 7" demo on No Sleep Records in September 2008. After a few west coast tours, the band went back into the studio to record their full length entitled ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse. The album was recorded at Earth Capital studios in January 2009. The LP was released in June 2009 on both 6131 and Geoff Rickly of Thursday's Collect Records, both of whom were in a partnership in the release. The album was released only on LP format and Digital. The album was met with generally positive reviews from critics including Sputnikmusic,Punknews.org, and Alternative Press. It also made its way onto multiple "Best Albums of 2009" lists.

Touché Amoré's second studio album, Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me was released on June 7, 2011 through independent record label Deathwish Inc. The band worked with producer and engineer Ed Rose at his Black Lodge Recording Studio in Eudora, Kansas. Bolm considers the album lyrically to center around the deterioration of relationships and finding comfort in the distance from home while touring, also saying "it [the album] became relative to everything that was going on at that moment." The album received praise from multiple reviewers, as well as being placed Number 6 on Rock Sound's annual "Album of the Year" chart at the end of 2011. Immediate promotion for the album's release in Europe lead to being the main support band for La Dispute with Norwegian hardcore punk band Death Is Not Glamourous also supporting. The tour started July 27, 2011 and finishing August 12 and coincided with both La Dispute's and Touché Amoré's appearances at Hevy Festival in the United Kingdom, Fluff fest in Czech Republic and Ieperfest in Belgium.