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Daytrotter Session
Brighton, MA drove to the daytrotter studios in iowa to perform some tunes for daytrotter.com. We're very proud of this session and we hope you enjoy it as well.

You can visit www.daytrotter.com and listen to the songs...

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BMA Bio

A man who runs with the wolves – or a pack of men who run with the wolves – are most notably of a different breed. They are of a different cut and wake up in mornings with the aftertaste of blood that kind of reminds the buds of pennies, along with the red meat it came from and cockleburs stuck into their greasy and matted hair and there’s a constant consternation of how it all happened, again. It’s a reoccurring scenario after the dreams have been killed, put down for another night’s sleep during the broad part of the day, for that’s when the exhaustion sets in and things get blurry around the curling edges.

Brighton, MA is a band that runs with these very wolves and operates under brilliant night lights, just letting the feelings and the temperatures act themselves out in their music as if they can control them little more than one can control a flood or an ice storm. It’s as if they have no choice in the matter, getting overtaken by some of these grander ideas of personal legitimacy, making good on love and the passage of time that somewhere along the way turns it into history. People, whether they let themselves do it or not, have so much that they can think deeply about that should stop them stiff in their tracks and all of the riddles and puzzling combinations of others, their words and letters, that living throws at them should be draining.

Matt Kerstein and his crack squad of players – guitarist Jim Turek, guitarist Joe Darnaby and drummer Sam Koentopp – sink themselves into a general mood that feels like sad chandeliers, a cold frost and men sipping glasses of brandy or whiskey in glasses that are almost always empty and in rooms that are dimmed and staring back with an anxious tension. The songs on Amateur Lovers and their new brothers are a combination of these scenes and the anticlimactic (or most interesting) narratives that have shown the characters as the flawed, yet resiliently trying men that everyone starts out as and winds up as through no lack of effort. These are thoughts that build into a kettle of steam that announce their presence over the course of time, seeping out slowly without the whistle. These are thoughts that one catches himself thinking and knows not where they came from or how they found him, just that they’re right or they’re more right than wrong. Kerstein has one of the most engaging voices and lyrical minds anywhere and Brighton, MA has already made an album that should be recognized, not necessarily alongside other albums that are marveled over, but sharing quarters with prized literature, the pleasure and pain of solitude and mankind’s corrupt beauty.
Words by Sean Moeller - www.daytrotter.com

PRESS QUOTES:

"The arrangements are useful to vary the sound of Kerstein's simple, samey melodies and add flavor to his husky, world-weary voice, but they do not interfere with an appreciation of his wordy, poetic lyrics." -Four Stars - All Music Guide

"Every once in a great while you?ll hear a new band that, in some way or another, reaffirms your love of music, your adoration for history and your admiration for artists who find splendor in the simplest of notes, phrases or progressions. Brighton, MA does just that." -Tom Lynch (New City Chicago, 6/7/07)

"When I say Brighton, MA's debut EP sounds ambitious, I don't mean they're "pushing their boundaries" or "developing their sound." I mean it seems like they're fixing to go pro." -Miles Raymer (Chicago Reader - 8/3/07)

"Brighton, MA from Chicago creates some truly gorgeous pop nostalgia on their new self-titled EP. Expect big things to come!" -Threadless.com

"Their folk-gazing anthems will easily win fans as the band works its way into the national consciousness." -www.3hive.com

"To understand that Kerstein is a talent to be watched, one need only listen to the track "Bet You Never Thought", one of the best songs I’ve heard from a local pop band in quite some time." - Don Bartlett (Chicago Innerview)

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