Sleazy synth-pop act The Bravery have spoken about their upcoming new album, claiming it is “darker and heavier” than previous material.
Believe it or not, there was a time when The Bravery and The Killers were going head to head for chart success. Emerging at around the same time the twin groups pedalled a brand of synth pop that echoed the glory years of Duran Duran.
However Brand Flowers’ superior pop vision has seen The Killers transform themselves into globally renowned stadium rocking monsters, where The Bravery are loved by a hardcore few.
Returning later this year with their third album ‘Slow Poison’ the band are talking loud about their forthcoming material.
Due to be released in November, The Bravery’s new album apparently recalls their debut LP but has a darker tone. Singer Sam Endicott claims that “it’s uptempo, fun music, although it does have a range of things”.
Speaking to Billboard the frontman said “there are slower, dreamy songs, and our bass player (Mike Hindert) wrote a song, (‘She Is So Bendable’), that sounds like a ’50s ballad or something.”
The Bravery retreated to a dis-used church in upstate New York in order to write the new album. Endicott explains that the band then hooked up with renowned producer John Hill who added a pop element to the album.
“He taught us a lot of ways to manipulate synthesizers and guitars in a way that we had never done before, so the album sounds spacier,” he said.
