What this session represents is an offering that can comfortably be considered a fair distance outside of our wheel house. The other day, we made a pass at trying to lure Alice Cooper and his snake and face paint into our studio for a session, but he turned it down. It didn’t crush our spirits. We think Mr. Cooper is rad and maybe some other time it will work out, but he doesn’t necessarily fit in between Alela Diane and Low, though there will always be dissenters. The argument should be raised, however, that there is a complete lack of prejudice at work at Daytrotter, as evidenced by The Honorary Title’s inclusion on the site. It shows, beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything gets a shake. They are here because Scream & Light Up The Sky is a good record. Anything Else But The Truth, featuring on the cover a panda bear that has presumably eaten a number of little children in cold blood, sitting on its hinds before a little girl in a cute dress, was a really nice debut record. Sure, they don’t tour with the kinds of rock and roll bands that normally grace these virtual pages on a daily basis – the Taking Back Sundays, My Chemical Romances and various other Warped Tour mainstays – but then again, there are no rules here. The discerning ears let everything in and lay before you what we find most pretty. Should that be a band of haircuts, which The Honorary Title must get every once in a while since lead man Jarrod Gorbel has a girl-catching one, or some freak folkers or a pack of guys playing that new soul that’s been tearing up the charts. Let that be a band like Madison’s The Crest, a crazy cool hip-hop group from Badger land. It could be anyone should they have the chops to cut it. There are chops here, delightful emo-ish, indie chops. – Sean Moeller

First song
Far More (The Honorary Title) [4.03MB] [2891 downloads]


– original version appears on Scream & Light Up The Sky
Written at the end of a relationship, kind of the denial stage at the tail end of a relationship, when you try to recapture what was there in the beginning, but unsuccessfully.

Second song
Apologize (The Honorary Title) [3.01MB] [2544 downloads]


– original version appears on Scream & Light Up The Sky
It’s a sarcastic look on love coming from an unfaithful male who, though he does love his girl, he loves his other women as well. He’s been through so much already and for her it’s the first time she’s felt love so intense, kind of a perspective I would’ve had about 10 years ago.

Third song
Along the Way (The Honorary Title) [4.61MB] [5008 downloads]


– original version appears on Scream & Light Up The Sky
Another kind of sarcastic relationship song about the stress of sharing such close space with someone you love — the point when you wanna kill each other.