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Shade Side Sunny Side

by For Against

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Glamour 06:13
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Underestimate 03:24
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Why Are You So Angry? 04:49
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Aftertaste 03:43
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Friendly Fires 07:36
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Game Over 07:39
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Spirit Lake 04:17
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Quiet Please 06:09
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Irresistible 05:53
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Shade Side Sunny Side is For Against's seventh full-length record and first studio album since 2002. As For Against approached their 25th anniversary on the independent music scene, the post-punk trio reemerged with an exclamation point: Shade Side Sunny Side is a landmark record for the band, boasting For Against's darkest (and loudest) material to date. The post-punk roots of For Against's early years are firmly in place, but presented throughout nine new songs with a more expansive and atmospheric sonic palette.

Shade Side Sunny Side marks the notable return of original For Against guitarist Harry Dingman III, who formed For Against with vocalist and bassist Jeffrey Runnings back in 1984. Dingman left the band after 1988's seminal dream pop record, December. For the new album, the prolific Runnings-Dingman songwriting team picks up right where they left off 20 years prior, when they wrote the classic postpunk material that comprised Echelons, December, and In The Marshes all within a two-year span.

Shade Side Sunny Side also includes some of the most heartrending accounts by Runnings to date. The album reveals itself as a confessional and therapeutic musical diary supported by Dingman’s searing feedback, atmospheric chord-play, and inspired hooks which are coaxed together to form a musical backbone that is both furious and gorgeous.

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released April 8, 2008

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For Against is one of America's most enduring and endeared independent musical ensembles, founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1984. The trio built the bridge between post-punk and dream pop in the mid-1980s and proceeded to record eight albums, three singles, and one EP drawing together a loyal union of darkwave fans in Europe and dream pop enthusiasts in their native U.S. ... more

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