I do have a favorite record store, Darkside Records, here on Main Street. (laughs) I pretty much just listen to everything on Spotify. So it’s got that aspect as well.Īlex Obert: Where around Poughkeepsie do you go to purchase albums?Īndrew Jordan: To tell you the truth man, I don’t purchase albums very much anymore. But then you can also just jump on the train and head to New York City. I like being in the outdoors, so it’s nice. You’re not far from the mountains, you can get up there and go skiing or go hiking. You’ve got way more space, way less people. Tiny, tiny, tiny apartments and you’ve gotta give your left arm practically just to live in it. The dollar doesn’t go that far down there.
And you’ve gotta spend a lot of money to live there. But I know it’s way crazier living there. Got married shortly after Matchbook, we had a baby last January.Īlex Obert: How’s life as a musician in Poughkeepsie, NY? How does it differ from somewhere like New York City?Īndrew Jordan: I don’t really know because I haven’t lived in the city.
And that’s what I’m spending all my time on. Promising stuff.He rocked out on stages and in video games as the frontman for Matchbook Romance, now he is apart of the band, DriftDivision, here is my interview with Andrew Jordan.Īlex Obert: First of all, what have you been up to lately?Īndrew Jordan: Since Matchbook, I have basically gotten back to college finally. I can’t say I’m definitely going to play it for a third time, but ‘Stories And Alibis’ is fun whilst it lasts, and if the above bands do it for you, you’re going to play this record into the ground. Taking Back Sunday’s ‘Tell All Your Friends’ is * good. _‘Something To Write Home About’_ *is good. A couple of shitty slow-paced acoustic numbers and occasionally too-sweet lyrics aside, what you’re left with is a record that would be the equal of The Get Up Kid’s ‘Something To Write Home About’, if only praising such a record wasn’t such a journalistic faux pas in this anti-emo climate.Īh, fuck faux pas. The screams are kept to a minimum, which is a very, very good thing, with them only really noticeable on closing track ‘The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)’. Andrew Jordan’s voice is perfect for music like this, and will have the girls soiling themselves with excitement three songs in. With a solid, technically proficient backbone of drums (courtesy of the staggeringly talented Aaron Stern) and bass ( Ryan Kienle), Matchbook Romance do one thing perfectly that so many of their peers neglect in favour of sounding overly pained they let their singer sing. One thing that’s definitely not to be scoffed at though is the quality of the band’s first release for the label. Apparently the band thought he was joking. The band set up a website, and after a long slog of DIY self-promotion, Epitaph’s Brett Gurewitz came-a-calling. They’ve steadily built up legions upon legions of fans through promoting themselves tirelessly through word of mouth. Matchbook Romance aren’t just another mass-produced nu-emo act looking for a slice of the disenchanted teen audience pie, oh no. It’s fair enough to say that there’s nothing here that’s going to sound remarkably original if you’ve heard the likes of Taking Back Sunday and The Get Up Kids, but ‘Stories And Alibis’ is so_ polished, and the band’s story _so unique, that it’s hard not to be won over by these four boys with the familiar problems with women. They just sounded like another band following in the footsteps of the commercially viable Drive-Thru born and bred nu-emo sound. When I first heard Matchbook Romance, on this year’s Atticus compilation ‘Dragging The Lake II’, I thought nothing of them. Unnatural because usually by now – I’m on my second listen – I’d have choked on my own syrupy-lyrics-induced vomit. Yes, the band’s name, the album title, and the song titles ( ‘Playing For Keeps’, ‘Lovers & Liars’,_ ‘Stay Tonight’, _‘She’ll Never Understand’) all scream “EMO!” like no record ever has before, but there’s something unnaturally likeable about New York State’s Matchbook Romance.
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