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"Livin’ On A Prayer On The Edge is the most ME record I’ve ever made. Not only do I play all the instruments on it (save for the lovely Rhodes piano that guides album closer “In The Next Life”; that’s courtesy of my friend Sam Stapp), but because it’s a reflection of everything that has influenced my songwriting since I picked up a guitar and asked my dad to teach me the chords to Pearl Jam’s “Black” in 1992. I recorded it all by myself in my basement with limited punches (every drum track is an entire take) and limited gear (the Shure SM57 still works wonders); it was lovingly mixed and mastered by my musical righthand man, Paul Miner, in sunny California. I gave him one direction: MAKE IT SOUND HUGE. And he did.

Dive into the record and you’ll immediately hear those big, loud, crunchy 90s guitars that bands like Teenage Fanclub and Dinosaur Jr. made famous (“I Should (But I Don’t Really Wanna)”, “Lost In A Daze”). You’ll get contemplative, shoegaze-y nods to Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine (“Anxious All The Time”, “Conspiracy Theory”). You’ll stumble upon swaggy street punk (“Devil’s Juice”), Big Star-influenced rockers (“After I’m Dead”), short, pop nuggets that wouldn’t sound out of place on GBV’s Alien Lanes (“When I’m Gone”, “Spider Sally”, “The Construction Man”), Beatle-esque jangle (“Company’s Eyes”), and groovy, Stereolab-indebted numbers with killer bass lines (“So What Who Cares”). The whole thing ends with “In The Next Life”, a send off to a recently passed friend, featuring that beautiful Rhodes part I was talking about earlier. "

-Ryan Allen on his brand new album "Livin’ On A Prayer On The Edge"

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