The Almost

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Say This Sooner 03:15 Tools
Southern Weather 03:28 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People 03:23 Tools
Dirty And Left Out 03:42 Tools
Drive There Now 03:12 Tools
Everyone Here Smells Like A Rat 03:17 Tools
Call Back When I'm Honest 03:25 Tools
Everything That Makes Me Sick 03:31 Tools
Hands 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is 04:25 Tools
Stop It 00:00 Tools
Lonely Wheel 00:00 Tools
Monster Monster 00:00 Tools
Never Say "I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
Hand Grenade 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' 04:31 Tools
Young Again 02:58 Tools
No I Don't 00:00 Tools
Summer Summer 00:00 Tools
Monster 00:00 Tools
Amazing, Because It Is 04:24 Tools
Souls On Ten 03:25 Tools
Books & Books 00:00 Tools
Want To 00:00 Tools
Little Drummer Boy 03:08 Tools
Get Through 00:00 Tools
Stop It! 03:37 Tools
Never Say, "I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
Your Love Is Extravagant 00:00 Tools
Yule Be Sorry 00:00 Tools
Awful Direction 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
Birmingham 00:00 Tools
Dirty And Left Out (McTague-Lectro Version) 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty Cover) 04:31 Tools
Say This Sooner (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
July 00:00 Tools
I'm Down 00:00 Tools
Ghost 00:00 Tools
Fear Inside Our Bones 00:00 Tools
Wrong 00:00 Tools
Never Say I Told You So 00:00 Tools
They Say you can never write I told you so in a song, but here I go 00:00 Tools
Never Be Like You 00:00 Tools
Come On 00:00 Tools
Fight Song 04:21 Tools
The Florida Sun 00:00 Tools
I Won't Let Go 00:00 Tools
So What 00:00 Tools
Me And Alone 00:00 Tools
Lonely Boy 00:00 Tools
Love Is Coming Down 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will Ever See Things The Way I Do) 00:00 Tools
Hold On (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Out West 03:37 Tools
Chokehold 00:00 Tools
Hold On 00:00 Tools
Never Say 'I Told You So' 00:00 Tools
I Want It Real 00:00 Tools
Hand Grenade - Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is - Full Version 00:00 Tools
Southren Weather 00:00 Tools
West 00:00 Tools
Tame A Lion 00:00 Tools
Me and Alone (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
In God’s Country 00:00 Tools
Over And Underneath 00:00 Tools
Life 00:00 Tools
Fire 00:00 Tools
they say you can never write I told you so in a song but here I go 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner - Exclusive 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Think I Am 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Alternate Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin 00:00 Tools
Ain’t No King 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner - Acoustic 00:00 Tools
I Won’t Miss 00:00 Tools
Fear Caller 00:00 Tools
Why Do You Bother Me 00:00 Tools
Dirty And Left Out - McTague-Lectro Version 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go (Demo) 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never 00:00 Tools
Hands (radio edit) 00:00 Tools
04 - Hands 00:00 Tools
Johnny Cash 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will See Things The Way I Do) 00:00 Tools
10 - Want To 00:00 Tools
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Free Fallin' (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Cover) 00:00 Tools
05-the_almost-southern_weather_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Never Say, 'I Told You So' 00:00 Tools
04-the_almost-i_mostly_copy_other_people_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
West (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
03-the_almost-dirty_and_left_out_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go DEMO 00:00 Tools
07-the_almost-amazing_because_it_is_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Free fallin' (Tom Petty) 00:00 Tools
Hold On (iTunes Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
02-the_almost-drive_there_now_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Dirty and Left Out (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
09-the_almost-never_say_i_told_you_so_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Free Falling 00:00 Tools
06-the_almost-stop_it_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
10-the_almost-call_back_when_im_honest_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
08-the_almost-everyone_here_smells_like_a_rat_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 00:00 Tools
11-the_almost-everything_that_makes_me_sick_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
03 Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
Left Out 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Tom Pretty Cover) 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Cover) 00:00 Tools
Everyone Here Smells 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Live at Amp'd Mobile) 00:00 Tools
Hand Grenade (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People (Demo) 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People (Live at Amp'd Mobile) 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Like To Copy Other Pe 00:00 Tools
No I Don\'t 00:00 Tools
Because It Is 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
01-the_almost-say_this_sooner 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Cover) 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song, But Here I Go (Demo) 00:00 Tools
They Say Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go 00:00 Tools
Wrong (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Say This Sooner 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So Into A Song But Here I Go DEMO 00:00 Tools
You'll Be Sorry 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin (Tom Petty Cover) 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will E 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write 'I Told You So' In A Song, But Here I Go 00:00 Tools
02-the_almost-drive_there_now 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Amazing, Because It Is 00:00 Tools
Southern Wheather 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Acoustic) (iTunes Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Me And Alone (iTunes Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Never Say, I Told You So 00:00 Tools
01-the_almost-say_this_sooner_www.fi 00:00 Tools
03-the_almost-dirty_and_left_out 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Hands 00:00 Tools
Yule Be Sorry (feat. Kenny Vasoli) 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather-(Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
never_say_i_told_you_so 00:00 Tools
07-the_almost-amazing_because_it_is 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Cover) 00:00 Tools
04-the_almost-i_mostly_copy_other_people 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because it is (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Southern Weather 00:00 Tools
Books Books 00:00 Tools
Everything That Makes Me Sick (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Amazing, Because It Is (live at Amp'd Mobile) 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 00:00 Tools
05-the_almost-southern_weather 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Like To Copy Other People (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' [Tom Petty] 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go [Demo] 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is (Live at Amp'd Mobile) 00:00 Tools
Drive There Now! 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' [Tom Petty Cover] 00:00 Tools
06-the_almost-stop_it 00:00 Tools
09-the_almost-never_say_i_told_you_so 00:00 Tools
0417 Almost - Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
Never Say ''I Told You So'' 00:00 Tools
Yule Be Sorry [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Say this sooner (live) 00:00 Tools
Dirty And Left Out - AOL Music In Studio 00:00 Tools
10-the_almost-call_back_when_im_honest 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Free Fallin' 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner - AOL Music In Studio 00:00 Tools
02-the_almost-drive_there_now_www.fi 00:00 Tools
04-the_almost-i_mostly_copy_other_pe 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One WIll Ever See Things The Way I Do) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
06-the_almost-stop_it_www.file24ever 00:00 Tools
the almost - drive there now 00:00 Tools
07-the_almost-amazing_because_it_is_ 00:00 Tools
11-the_almost-everything_that_makes_me_sick 00:00 Tools
Amazing, Because It Is (Live) 00:00 Tools
05-the_almost-southern_weather_www.f 00:00 Tools
Free Falling (Tom Petty Cover) 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Like To 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Dirty And Left Out 00:00 Tools
06 - Stop It 00:00 Tools
the almost - i mostly copy other people 00:00 Tools
Interview 00:00 Tools
08-the_almost-everyone_here_smells_l 00:00 Tools
SOUTHERN WEATHER 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
West (Deluxe Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
They say You Can Never Write "I Told You So" In A Song, But Here I Go 00:00 Tools
08-the_almost-everyone_here_smells_like_a_rat 00:00 Tools
10 Call Back When I'm Honest 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Wrong (Deluxe Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
03-the_almost-dirty_and_left_out_www 00:00 Tools
11-the_almost-everything_that_makes_ 00:00 Tools
Call Back When Im Home 00:00 Tools
Wrong [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Amazing Because It Is 00:00 Tools
July (B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Amazing. Because It Is 00:00 Tools
West [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Hand Grenade Monster, Monster Album 00:00 Tools
10 - Call Back When I'm Honest 00:00 Tools
10-the_almost-call_back_when_im_hone 00:00 Tools
09-the_almost-never_say_i_told_you_s 00:00 Tools
Amazing Beacuse It Is 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Acoustic) - The Almost 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other 00:00 Tools
Say I Told You So 00:00 Tools
09 - Never Say "I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Stop It 00:00 Tools
The Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
There Now 00:00 Tools
No I Don\\'t 00:00 Tools
Amazing Becasue It Is 00:00 Tools
Say This Sonner 00:00 Tools
No I Dont 00:00 Tools
Never Say `i Told You So` 00:00 Tools
If Your Favour Is Small, I'm Perfect 00:00 Tools
Yellow 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Everyone Here Smells Like A Rat 00:00 Tools
Birmingham (B-side) 00:00 Tools
Ghost [vk.com/post_hc] 00:00 Tools
This Sooner 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People (feat. Kenny Vasoli) 00:00 Tools
Call Back When I`m Honest 00:00 Tools
July [B-Side] 00:00 Tools
Birmingham [B-Side] 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Others 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So in A Song 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner [No One Will Ever See Things The Way I Do] (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will Ever See Things The Way I Do) (Radio Single) 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner Acoustic 00:00 Tools
say_this_sooner_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Call Back When I am Honest 00:00 Tools
Never Say "I Told You So 00:00 Tools
I told you so 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Everything That Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
Everything That Makes Me Sick (Live) 00:00 Tools
Never Say I Told You 00:00 Tools
Wrong(Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
03 03 Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
They_Say_You_Can_Never_Write_I_Told_You_So_In_A_Song_But_Here_I_Go_DEMO_ 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' (originally recorded by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 00:00 Tools
Dirty And Let Out 00:00 Tools
Free Falling [Tom Petty Cover] 00:00 Tools
09 Never Say _I Told You So_ 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (southern weather) 00:00 Tools
Ain't No King 00:00 Tools
Never Said I Told You So 00:00 Tools
Hand Grenade with lyrics 00:00 Tools
Freefallin 00:00 Tools
say this sooner. 00:00 Tools
Call Back When I´m Honest 00:00 Tools
They Say 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Call Back When I'm Honest 00:00 Tools
09 Never Say I Told You So 00:00 Tools
Amazing Beacause It Is 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is (live) 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will Ever See Things The Way I Do) (0) 00:00 Tools
I Won't Miss 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather - The Almost 00:00 Tools
Here Smells Like A Rat 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Like to Copy Other People [demo] 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (No One Will Ever See Things the Way I Do) [Album Versi 00:00 Tools
Say this sooner [no one will ever see things the way i do] 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin (originally recorded by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 00:00 Tools
Everything That Make Me Sick 00:00 Tools
01-Say This Sooner 00:00 Tools
Your Love Is Extravagent 00:00 Tools
Never Say,"I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write "I Told You So" In A Song But Here I Go 00:00 Tools
To Be Young (Ryan Adams cover) 00:00 Tools
Everyone Here Smells a Rat 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Acoustic) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Southen Weather 00:00 Tools
In God's Country 00:00 Tools
Im Down 00:00 Tools
Never Say 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Need 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
They Say you can never write 00:00 Tools
Never Say " I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is! 00:00 Tools
02 Me And Alone 00:00 Tools
Dirty and Left Out (McTague Version) 00:00 Tools
Dirty And Left 00:00 Tools
"Say This Sooner" 00:00 Tools
Almost Everyone Here Smells Like A Rat 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Summer Summer 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Sooner 00:00 Tools
Yule Be Sorry (ft. Kenny Vasoli) 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So in a Song, But... 00:00 Tools
Yule Be Sorry (feat. Kenny Vasioli) 00:00 Tools
That Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
Everthing That Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
everyone here 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather lyrics 00:00 Tools
03 0417 Almost - Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
Drive Here Now 00:00 Tools
lonley wheel 00:00 Tools
Me & Alone 00:00 Tools
Amazing, Because It Is (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Never Say I Told You So 00:00 Tools
Say The Sooner 00:00 Tools
Say This Soon 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin (Tom Petty) 00:00 Tools
dirty_and_left_out_www.file24ever.com 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' [Cover] 00:00 Tools
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Amazing Because 00:00 Tools
To Be Young (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather (1.FM - Channel X) 00:00 Tools
Everything Here Smells Like A Rat 00:00 Tools
Drive There 00:00 Tools
Call Back When I'm Honest 00:00 Tools
10 call back when im honest 00:00 Tools
I Mostly Copy Other People (ft. Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line) 00:00 Tools
Hands [Radio Edit 1] 00:00 Tools
Never Say _I Told You So_ 00:00 Tools
The Almost - Never Say "I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
Southern Weather (Demo) 00:00 Tools
10 10-the_almost-call_back_when_im_h 00:00 Tools
Amazin because it is 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Cover) 00:00 Tools
Never Say "I Told You So" 00:00 Tools
Amazing cause it is 00:00 Tools
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Never Say, ''I Told You So'' 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' - The Almost 00:00 Tools
The Almost -Everything That Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
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thealmost-freefallin 00:00 Tools
Never Say I Told You So 00:00 Tools
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02-Drive There now 00:00 Tools
Every Thing That Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
Free Fallin' Cover 00:00 Tools
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Say This Sooner [Live Acoustic Version] 00:00 Tools
Dirt and Left Out 00:00 Tools
the almost drive there now 00:00 Tools
06-stop it 00:00 Tools
When I'm Honest 00:00 Tools
Hands (2009) 00:00 Tools
Amazing Because It Is [Live Acoustic Version] 00:00 Tools
Say This Sooner(Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Hold On [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
The Almost 00:00 Tools
They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So Into A Song But Here I Go (DEMO) 00:00 Tools
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They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song, But Here I Go [Demo] 00:00 Tools
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Yule Be Sorry feat. Kenny Vasoli 00:00 Tools
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The Almost is the band of Aaron Gillespie, the former drummer/clean vocalist of Underoath from Clearwater, Florida, United States started in 2005. Aaron stated that this band is much more of a traditional rock project than Underoath. A Monster Monster is on the loose. The Almost’s second album for Tooth & Nail/Virgin Records began taking shape just as soon as the band came off the road after touring for their 2007 debut, Southern Weather, including a stint on that summer’s Warped tour. That album, which debuted at 39 on Billboard’s Top 200, earned them a Top 10 single at Alternative radio, and a spot on MTV’s Discover & Download, was essentially the work of a single individual—Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie, who wrote all the songs, played all the instruments and then recruited a band to play them live, starting with fellow Floridian Jay Vilardi, a veteran of several well-known area bands like Metal Blade’s Phoenix Mourning and Orlando-based Hand to Hand. “My job was to teach everyone the songs,” explains Vilardi, who describes himself as the band’s musical director. The addition of Philadelphia-based guitarist Dusty Redman, himself a veteran of Tooth & Nail bands like Beloved and Dead Poetic and Salt Lake City bassist Alex Aponte rounded out the line-up. The now thoroughly road-tested band was intent to make their latest a completely collaborative effort, melding their talents into a whole that was more than the sum of its individual parts. The process began with Vilardi, Redmon and Aponte e-mailing files back and forth to Gillespie, who was busy penning lyrics and coming up with musical ideas of his own while touring with Underoath, before all four of them got together in the studio to jam and work out the arrangements. It was a system that resulted in a powerfully cohesive album that melds their diverse songwriting skills, from the thudding, Raw Power-like stomp of the title track and “Young Again,” to the stark acoustic blues and closing psychedelic jam of “Monster,” the techno-rock laced with tribal drums of “Books & Books” and the melodic Coldplay/U2/Kings of Leon arena-rock anthem, “Hands.” “It turned out to be a really good process because we wound up with a tremendous amount of material we can use,” says Vilardi. “We jammed on these tracks for hours before we actually laid anything down,” nods Gillespie. “This now feels like a real band. Everyone gave up a piece of his own agenda for the good of the final result. And that’s how you end up with something special. It was a relief for me because it took a lot of the weight off my shoulders. They supplied the bricks and we built the house together.” The guys also enlisted the help of steel guitarists Chris Scruggs (grandson of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs) and John Davis (Superdrag vocalist/guitarist) while in the studio. Both Scruggs and Davis helped they guys broaden their musical pallets on a few tracks like “West” and “Hand Grenade.” “It was whatever each of us could do for the song,” agrees Redmon. “There were no ego issues, no one screaming, ‘I’m Eddie Van Halen!’” Gillespie says the songs are about the dark side of the human condition, battling your demons to come out the other side, starting with the album’s title. “I’m giving in to you,” he roars in “Lonely Wheel,” though in “No I Don’t,” which segues from an acoustic beginning to an anthemic rock chorus, he admits, “I’m learning how to wait.” The hard-hitting “Young Again” and the country-flavored “Hand Grenade” (“Oh to be young/It sounds like so much fun”) are both about lost innocence, while “Souls on Ten,” with its piano flourish and urgent intensity, has a Springsteen feel and the grungy garage-rock of “Summer Summer” offers an elegiac nod to vintage Neil Young with Crazy Horse. “It didn’t start out as a concept album, but by accident, I think it became one,” says Aaron. “It’s about the ‘monster’ that lives inside of all of us, which we have to fight to get rid of. It’s a battle you live with every day. In the end, when that stops, the question remains, can you now live your life? Can you get all of who you are, can you find a place that makes you happy?” That catharsis comes across loud and clear in the final song on the album, dubbed “Monster,” which starts with Gillespie alone, accompanied by a single dobro. “Learning how to see/In this weird change of space/I’m learning to believe in this life… I feel you helping me.” The song builds until, about two-thirds of the way through, the rest of The Almost come in, embarking on a spontaneous acid-soaked jam, recorded live, that provides the ultimate release. “Everybody needs that,” says Gillespie. “For some people, it’s drinking, others run, some throw baseballs. I play music. That’s what I do. That gets rid of the garbage in my life.” “It’s about how terrible we can be at times,” says Vilardi. “It’s hard to be a person today who stands for something. It doesn’t make you better… sometimes it even makes you worse.” On “Hands,” the band prove they can create an arena- and radio-ready rock anthem, with its martial beat, chiming keyboards and lush ‘80s new wave fizz. “It’s like an Achtung Baby vibe,” nods Dusty. “That song came out of nowhere. We demoed it, then got into the studio and started playing it and just got real excited.” “I like working with a song structure,” says Gillespie. “In Underoath, that’s not what we do. We create moments, which is important, but The Almost is something different.” “Monster Monster” and “Young Again” demonstrate Jay and Dusty’s love of classic garage punk, like The Stooges and The Velvet Underground . “We really want to put the middle finger back in rock,” says Vilardi. “We love the attitude of bands like Guns N' Roses.” And that’s strange, because it turns out that rebellion doesn’t conflict with being on Tooth & Nail, where the support of community is almost as important as the religious implications. “Music should reflect who you are,” says Aaron. “I believe there’s hope in finding who you are. That’s my conviction. At the same time, I want anybody, no matter their affiliation, to react to the music in the same way. I don’t want people to feel they’re being judged.” With the addition of drummer Joe Musten (Gillespie played all the drums on the album), The Almost is ready to hit the road and do what they do best, play for their increasing fan base around the country. “We plan on hitting it as hard as we can,” laughs Vilardi. “We’d like to leave and not come back for two years.” “We’re just beginning now to establish our identity,” concludes Dusty. “There were a lot of people now who are finding out about Underoath through The Almost.” Now there’s a transformation for you. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.