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Staple	2005-02-02
Posted by: flickerrecords
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Meeting despair with hope head on, Staple's self-titled debut pleads with each of us to return to the fire that we brandished when we first discovered what it is we believe in. With themes of spirit vs. flesh throughout, if Keim's vocals don't wake you out of your self-righteousness, the in-your-face guitar onslaught will.
Website: http://www.staplemusic.com
Established: 2000
Record Label : Flicker Records (http://www.flickerrecords.com)
Band Members: Darin Keim -- Vocals Brian Miller -- Guitar Grant Beachy -- Drums Israel Beachy -- Bass
ABOUT THE BAND - It doesn’t take more than one listen to Staple’s savagely sophisticated and melodic debut to realize that this is a band whose lyrics and music share the stage equally in focus. With a work ethic that has seen Staple play close to 300 shows in the last two years, it’s been a long road to their debut release on Flicker Records that culminates with their self-titled release hitting retail on March 23, 2004. This ethic has helped them craft a live performance that rivals any working-class band out today. “We feel that the audience is part of the band when we play live,” 24-year-old vocalist Darin Keim insists. “We think our fans are great, they’re loyal, and they’re passionate—It’s just one of those things where they relate to the things we talk about as much as we do, so they feel about it the same way that we do. It’s awesome singing something, and the fans are louder than I am—I can tell they mean it, and that’s a very rewarding thing.” Staple was founded about three years ago when Keim left home in Michigan to attend college in Ohio, where he met guitarist Brian Miller and drummer Grant Beachy. “We all liked the area,” Keim enthuses, “and we had fun hanging out together, so we thought, if we ever get back there again, we should work together musically. I’d been in a band in high school but was very naive about what I needed to do. Because Brian and Grant and I had jammed a little while when we were at college, we moved back that fall and then the following spring, in 2000, it all got rolling.” All in their early 20s, the four members of Staple live together in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, halfway between Columbus and Dayton. “It’s been really good for us because we’ve played both cities and built up followings in each of them,” Keim says gratefully. “We all live in an old hotel that this friend of ours is renovating,” Keim explains, “and he gave us an apartment for really cheap. So we’re all living there, and we’ve got a practice space up on the third level. It’s really convenient, so we can all go practice whenever we feel like it, and save a lot of money that way.” Staple’s debut intensely and eloquently delivers on their emotionally profound and community-building live shows, their songs clearly demonstrating how they daily turn their revolutionary rock art into life. Citing influences both diverse and revealing, including a love for Living Sacrifice, Project 86, and Stavesacre, Keim is aware how original Staple actually sounds, especially in the fluid interchange between the aggressive music and the steady, dramatic strength of his vocals. Although the words of Staple’s songs are of central importance to the band, Keim crafts them out of the organic process of writing on guitars with Miller. “I make lyrics that compliment the music,” Keim says. “The way I sing, I have to know how to put every syllable into my delivery, so my lyric writing is confined to how I want my delivery to sound.” This explains how Keim’s assured vocals work much better with the songs than many other bands of similar styles. Fans of fellow Flicker Records bands Kids in the Way and Mortal Treason will be happy to know that Staple had their producer Nathan Dantzler co-produce the debut with Sam Shifley. Keim assures us that Staple have no desire to change their audience-loving work ethic any time soon. “We’re going to be touring with Disciple in the spring,” he says, “and then hitting the festivals this summer, and we’re also working out a tour with Spoken for a couple of weeks then. We’ll have something cool going this fall, too.”
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Staple Franklin, TN United States	Posted by: flickerrecords Web: http://www.staplemusic.com

SONGS BY THIS BAND :
Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Fists Afire

INSPIRED BY :
Living Sacrifice
Project 86
Stavesacre

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