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MMUSICMAG.COMJULY/AUGUST 2012 ISSUE

JULY/AUGUST 2012 M MUSIC & MUSICIANS MAGAZINE

THE ROCKETBOYSBuild Anyway

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For those familiar with this Austin band’s backstory, Build Anyway

will play like a concept album about the sextet-turned-trio’s

promising start, subsequent hiatus and triumphant—singer Brandon

Kinder hopes—comeback. Then again, “Marching to the Palace”

and “These Are Hard Times” could just be about girls. Either way,

Kinder and his two remaining bandmates turn bad feelings into big

music, using earnest lyrics, charging drums and unashamedly grand

synths and guitars to emerge Coldplay-like from their cocoon of

disappointment. The line, “If all of my troubles are hurricanes, then

I’m seeing circling clouds,” gives a good indication of the grandiosity

Kinder is going for, and he’s got the conviction to just about pull it off.

‘Kinder and his two remaining bandmates turn bad

feelings into big music, using earnest lyrics, charging

drums and unashamedly grand synths and guitars to

emerge Coldplay-like from their cocoon of disappointment.’