Tennessee based six-piece The Young Republic are due to release their eagerly awaited second album “Balletesque” through End of the Road Records on 12 October 2009. The record, inspired by the turbulent times The Young Republic faced in late 2008, pushes the band’s jazz and classical training and original folk leanings toward a darker more cinematic sound.

Album number two from The Young Republic comes hot on the heels of the summer’s Recession Special EP and sees the Tennessee six-piece surviving a change of drummer in late 2008. Where others may have faltered The Young Republic focused harder than ever before in the music that brought them together during their formation at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The difficult period of 2008 fuelled and redirected Saporiti’s writing, often returning from hiking trips across Sky Mountain with the tracks that have become “Balletesque”. The albums cast of salesmen, bootleggers, preachers, outlaws and other misfits appear in the rich tales of the American mind-set past and present, threaded together with lyrical themes of betrayal and loss.

Following a hugely successful SXSW appearance earlier this year, The Young Republic return to the UK in October / November, including a special show at Cargo hosted by End of the Road. To coincide with the headline show on the 2^nd November and the release of “Balletesque” we are offering a free, exclusive download of the title track for a limited time only. Fill your boots.

The Young Republic – Balletesque

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