Halifax’s urgent guitar assault and shout-along exhortations seem to form the perfect soundtrack to teenage angst, so the quintet have taken their sound and asymmetrical haircuts to where they’ll do the most good–the road.
“We could tour forever,” guitarist Adam Charles said recently from San Antonio, on the 22nd stop of a two-month trip that presages the band’s third stint on the Warped Tour later in the summer. “We get anxious whenever we go home.”
Not that the young rockers (ages 20 to 23) have spent much time there since they put college on hold to chase their dreams in 2003. Their 2004 EP “A Writer’s Reference” caught the attention of L.A.’s Drive-Thru Records. In between logging miles in the van and enjoying plaudits from Alternative Press magazine, Charles and band mates Mike Hunau, Chris Brandt, Tommy Guindon and Doug Peyton assembled “The Inevitability of a Strange World,” their full-length debut.
“This guy is a real-deal producer,” Charles said. “We got sold on him because of what he did with Taking Back Sunday and A Static Lullabye. The album ended up sounding really clean and really polished–he buffed us out a bit.”
When the album dropped on May 23, the band celebrated by hitting a Best Buy to purchase a couple of copies. “You know, to boost our album sales,” Charles said.
Check out Halifax’s “Anthem for Tonight” at purevolume.com/halifax.
