Senses Fail w/ Dance Gavin Dance @ Toledo Civic Theatre

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Doors At: 6:00

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“Everyone’s life is a work in progress,” says Senses Fail frontman Buddy Nielsen. “You’re still going to be learning this stuff until the day you die.” The stuff he’s talking about is why we are the way we are. Much of Senses Fail’s new album, Still Searching (due Oct. 10 on Vagrant Records), finds Nielsen grappling with this issue.

And though these are the most personal songs he’s ever written, they’re also the most accessible. “I like my lyrics to be open to interpretation, but I didn’t want to paint pictures of things no one was going to understand; I want our fans to be able to relate,” he explains. “At some point, we all start examining our lives. If you don’t, there’s something wrong with you.”

It’s been nearly two years since the New Jersey quintet – Nielsen, new guitarist Heath Saraceno (formerly of Midtown), guitarist Garrett Zablocki, bassist Mike Glita and drummer Dan Trapp – released their full-length debut, Let It Enfold You (Vagrant), which sold more than 300,000 copies. Since then, the band has performed on national TV, sat for countless media interviews -(Alternative Press put them on the cover), toured the world and become the subject of frenzied Internet activity. “We’ve grown up a lot since then,” Nielsen says. “When we wrote the songs for the last record, I was 18. I never imagined we’d be able to make a record like this one.”

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