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Habeas Corpus, the second album from Living Things, is a slingshot of modern Americana, arching from St. Louis through Chicago, New York City and London to pierce the international vagabond outpost of Berlin, as seen through the eyes of four political junkies high on the poet and the layman’s right to intellectual freedom. The themes they cover include life, love, money, religion and war in these turbulent times.
“In some ways I’ve looked at this whole record as a celebration of the uncertain times ahead,” says lead vocalist/lyricist/guitarist Lillian Berlin. Anthemic, prophetic and bumping through Habeas Corpus, Living Things have taken their journey from St. Louis, the city where old-timers pick out the blues on their porches and giant signs proclaim “Guns Save Lives” and “Jesus Saves,” on to new cities and new horizons of the mind. Yet St. Louis and
the contorting contradictions this city wears is never far from their minds. It’s still the homestead for which they sing their fiery hymns of revolution and revelation.
With Habeas Corpus the scream of four angry young men evolved into a record that brands flesh by way of a more elegant, textured fury. Released Feb. 17, 2009, on Jive Records, it was birthed in the beating heart of Hansa Ton Studio in Berlin, an expansive ballroom used by the German military, at the height of its power, to entertain society with classical recitals. Today, through a line of wide, tall windows, a virgin dawn breaks over the dark city skyline, touching Potsdamer Platz, where the Berlin Wall once stood, and sweeps across a Gothic city blinking in the light of a new future. Living Things homepage
http://www.myspace.com/livingthings
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