Dylan In The Movies is the musical brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Brian Sullivan. In 2006, the band’s self-released ep Feel the Pull earned it an indie cult following and caught the attention of DJs across the country, including those from KCRW and KEXP. Their long awaited debut full-length Josephine If You Only Knew will launch Spring 2010 on American Laundromat Records and features guest appearances from the Watson Twins (Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins) and Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders, Belly), who also shares a co-write credit on the track ‘Girl With the Black Tights.’
Having recorded the album at a number of New England locales, most notably on an idyllic farm in New Hampshire, the sound is charged with an authentic sensibility that is only fitting for the band. Dylan In The Movies creates a mood within its musical landscape. There is an emotional rending that is explicit and revealing yet pleasantly delivered, not unlike one of Sullivan’s big influences. “Morrissey is a big influence. He has this unabashed audacity in making music that comes from a place of emotional honesty, which can be sad, yet there’s something inevitably uplifting.” The same can be said for the songs on Josephine If You Only Knew. A blend of nostalgia, loss, and redemption haunt these dreamlike melodies and killer hooks to astounding effect. Echoes of orchestral melancholy run through standouts like ‘August Moon’ and ‘Our Biggest Love’ yet ‘Cities Skies’ and ‘Girl With the Black Tights’ offer irresistible riffs that spill over with sunshine.
Sullivan first knew he wanted to be a career musician when he traveled to Ireland with his mother at age 14 and spent the summer sitting in with a well-known local band. He continued his musical ventures back in the states, landing a job at famed Fort Apache Studios, which produced records for such heavies as The Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Radiohead. Sullivan recalls, “I was in the studio one day while Juliana Hatfield was recording and I said to myself, this is what I want to be doing. Up until then, the process had been a mystery, a fantasy. But suddenly I was in the control room and the sounds were bouncing off the walls; it wasn’t a fantasy anymore.” After graduating from Emerson College in 1997, Sullivan immersed himself in the local Boston music scene and began playing venues around town. Today, he continues to play, touring the U.S. and sharing the stage with such bands as Midlake, Final Fantasy, and St. Vincent to name a few.
Look for Josephine If You Only Knew in 2010 and see Dylan In The Movies support the release with a U.S. tour later that year.
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