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"So in this modern world where power pop has gotten a bad name finding artists within the genre with heart and soul has become a difficult endeavor. Luckily for you I have found such an artist." MAMMOTH PRESS

"Driving Music is a beautiful and relevant term for what Andrade is doing here. These songs float by much like the scenery of the open road." SOUND AS LANGUAGE

"Fabio Andrade’s solo project Driving Music is motivated by romantic rock waves. His latest release is likable from beginning to end." ABSOLUTE PUNK

"Driving Music's demo is a promising, well-done 20-minute affair." PUNKNEWS

"Driving Music makes me think about good things. I can hardly wait for their next record" PUNKNET

"Honest, quality music." ZONAPUNK

Pointed out as the best new brazilian band of 2007 by VALEPUNK.COM

Featured in the "2008 bets" list published by DISCO DE PLATINA

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I’ve dedicated 10 of my 26 years of life to a band called The Invisibles. During that period of time, we independently released two albums and one ep, recorded more than 50 songs that traveled good portions of the Earth, got rave reviews from zines and magazines we respect, played with bands we really admire (like Sepultura and Samiam), went to cities and people that we never thought we would met. And when my will of making music grew bigger than the hability of those four people getting together in a practicing room, the end of the Invisibles marked, mainly, the beginning of Driving Music. And that’s where we meet, you and I, right now.

The five songs that accompany this note are the result of six months of lonely work, but that find in said loneliness the possibility of full growth. I’ve produced these five songs at home, with a lot of freedom and zero inhibitions. The drums were sequenced using Reason SoundFactory and I recorded all the other instruments with little technology. Songs that combine the urgency of punk rock (Descendents, Jawbreaker, Face to Face) with the lighthearted glow of 90s alternative rock (Sugar, Lemonheads, Smoking Popes) and the melodic structure of tradition singer/songwriters (Paul Westerberg, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello). Small conversations sewned together with simple melodies, with no other pretension besides being a nice company for a little while.

While new musical adventures are usually attached to the “I’m finally making the music I always wanted to make” speech, I’d rather say this is the music I want to make right now. Songs that are happy to be just songs – the biggest possible reason for any band to exist. Songs that are free to take me wherever they want to go. And, more than anything else, songs about today. This is my life. These are my impressions of the world. This is what I have to say. This is Driving Music.