Music: Forgive Durden: "Life is Looking Up"


The recently overhauled Forgive Durden have announced their sophomore full length and also posted a new song. The record is titled Razia's Shadow: A Musical and is due out October 28, 2008. Frontman Thomas Dutton explained the record:

The new record is a musical. [...] It was co-written by my brother Paul and features 13 of my good friends.. Casey, Lizzie, Max, Chris, Danny, Brendon, Dan, Greta, Nic, Shawn, Kris, John, and Aaron, to be exact.

The record features members of Say Anything, Saves The Day, Panic At the Disco, The Matches, An Angle, The Hush Sound, Gatsbys American Dream, and many more. The entire affair is narrated by Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou.

You can check out "Life is Looking Up" on their myspace page.

You can click Read More for the track listing and artwork.

  • Genesis (ft. Casey Crescenzo of The Dear Hunter)
  • The Missing Piece (ft. Lizzie Huffman of Man In The Blue Man)
  • Life Is Looking Up
  • The Spider And The Lamps (ft. Max Bemis of Say Anything)
  • Toba The Tura (ft. Chris Conley of Saves The Day)
  • The Oracle (ft. Danny Stevens of The Audition)
  • A Thousand Year, Minute-Long Intermission
  • The Exit (ft. Brendon Urie of Panic At the Disco, Dan Young of This Providence)
  • It's True Love (ft. Greta Salpeter of The Hush Sound)
  • Meet The King (ft. Greta Salpeter of The Hush Sound, Nic Newsham of Gatsbys American Dream)
  • Holy The Sea (ft. John Gourley of Portugal The Man, Kris Ayana of An Angle)
  • Doctor Doctor (ft. Shawn Harris of The Matches)
  • The End And The Beginning (ft. Greta Salpeter of The Hush Sound, Brendon Urie of Panic At the Disco)