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"Isn&amp;#039;t it nice when a new band comes along and they actually have something to sing about? Lonely the Brave are not fresh out of school and The Hype Machine isn&amp;#039;t raving over their angular synth dribble. They&amp;#039;ve lived, man. And they&amp;#039;ve been scarred, too. After feeding their trauma into some sturdy guitar hooks, signing a deal with Columbia Records and even getting the force of Radio 1&amp;#039;s daytime dynasty on board, they might just be about to take on the world. Shaped from leftovers of the Cambridge rock scene, part of what makes them so magnetic is their particularly introverted frontman David Jakes. On record, he&amp;#039;s as troubled and sensitive as The National&amp;#039;s Matt Berninger and howls every note like each is his last. Imagine You Me at Six minus the preening, or Bullet for My Valentine without the hoarseness - then you&amp;#039;ll close come to Lonely the Brave&amp;#039;s self-described doom-pop.  &amp;quot;Things seemed to align and we all ended up in the same place at the same time,&amp;quot; guitarist Mark Trotter explains to Digital Spy in the upper decks of East London&amp;#039;s Old Blue Last pub, ahead of an intimate one-off gig. &amp;quot;Our various other bands were ending or splitting up. We were a four-piece for a long time and when we started writing the album, it was a case of, &amp;#039;This really isn&amp;#039;t gonna work as a four-piece anymore&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; In came Ross on extra guitar (joining singer Jakes, Andrew Bushen on bass and Gavin Edgeley on drums), and the group were complete. It&amp;#039;s not exactly been years of hard graft for them, though, but that&amp;#039;s mainly because their early material was so tight. &amp;quot;One of the first things we did as a band was a live session for Dan P Carter at Radio 1!&amp;quot; reveals Trotter. &amp;quot;That was off one of our first demos.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve done the Purple Turtle to literally two people on numerous occasions on Sunday nights,&amp;quot; insists Edgeley. Trotter adds: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve played as many shows as we could, but there&amp;#039;s a lot of bands who&amp;#039;ve done a lot more than we have for a lot longer to get where we are. We&amp;#039;re really lucky with some of the things that have happened for us, right at the start.&amp;quot;      Lonely the Brave are also blessed with a frontman as individual as Jakes. He spits out lines like &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been drinking with those demons, those creatures with the claws\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 We&amp;#039;ll bring them down&amp;quot; (&amp;#039;Black Saucers&amp;#039;); &amp;quot;Am I doomed forever, will this ending never come, can someone give me something to call it off?&amp;quot; (&amp;#039;Trick of the Light&amp;#039;); &amp;quot;Today I said I couldn&amp;#039;t even care, so I just laid by the door at the back of the stairs&amp;quot; (&amp;#039;The Day&amp;#039;s War&amp;#039;). There&amp;#039;s such a power to the way Jakes exorcises his demons, it&amp;#039;s hard not to cherish his brutal honesty. &amp;quot;Those lyrics just flow out of him,&amp;quot; says Trotter. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of mad. He&amp;#039;ll stand in the middle of the room and just start singing. Where does that come from?!&amp;quot; Edgeley continues: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to gush too much, but I love seeing what he puts over. We&amp;#039;ve all known him for so long, and even though we&amp;#039;re good friends, I still find it heartbreaking and upsetting when I do hear what he sings. He&amp;#039;s a good guy, Dave. He&amp;#039;s a freak.&amp;quot; When it comes to the band&amp;#039;s live performance, Jakes feels most at ease singing towards the back of the stage and away from the audience. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s always stood there. People think it&amp;#039;s a gimmick, but that&amp;#039;s where he stands when we rehearse,&amp;quot; explains Trotter. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s where he&amp;#039;s always been comfortable and we support him doing that. I&amp;#039;m not sure our kind of music would suit the frontman swinging his mic around his head down the front! It&amp;#039;s just not him.&amp;quot;      Lonely the Brave&amp;#039;s forthcoming debut album The Day&amp;#039;s War, meanwhile, is a solid work of singable, swirling guitar melodies and Jakes&amp;#039;s gritty, rousing vocals; it doesn&amp;#039;t really fit the established scenes and impressively wanders between Fearne Cotton&amp;#039;s iTunes and the hallowed field of Download Festival. Their sound only starts to make sense when you discover that the band listen to everything from Deftones and The National to classical music and City and Colour. Was it hard to piece the album together, then? &amp;quot;I really can&amp;#039;t remember writing or recording any of it,&amp;quot; smiles Edgeley. &amp;quot;It was never premeditated when we went in there to start writing, to discuss where we&amp;#039;d go. We just sat it out and had a look. There was no formula.&amp;quot; Trotter agrees: &amp;quot;There really isn&amp;#039;t. Sometimes I wish there was because it would be easier! But we&amp;#039;ve never once had that discussion.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s something very sacred about Lonely the Brave&amp;#039;s journey so far - you almost get the sense they were rushed here simply to connect with the defeated. &amp;quot;We always think we&amp;#039;re writing really depressing songs. But when we listen back to them, there always seems to be a level of hope in there,&amp;quot; adds Trotter. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t know how or why, but it just seems to be that way.&amp;quot; Rock&amp;#039;s best new band really might be the chosen ones. Lonely the Brave&amp;#039;s debut album The Day&amp;#039;s War is released on September 1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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