New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The best songs are the kind that are created in such a way that you can project your own meaning onto them. Brooklyn's electroacoustic band, Argyle Johansen knows just how to give listeners just enough to create their own stories within songs. The latest single from Argyle Johansen and his Inner Demo(n)s, "You Try," has its own resonance with songwriter John Wentz, but he'd like you to come up with your own interpretation. "'You Try' is about debt," he says of the swiftly moving tune, "Everybody has baggage of one kind or another (financial, emotional, intellectual and so on), so I hope people make up whatever back story they infer from the lyrics." "You Try" cruises along with accordion (featuring Taylor Galassi), lively snare and delicate acoustic guitar sounding like a collaboration between The
Shins and Sufjan Stevens. Download "You Try" now: https://glgpub.com/file_download/181/Argyle-Johansen-You-Try.mp3
"Argyle Johansen sounds like
Simon beating up Garfunkel or maybe if
Bob Dylan and the Old Dirty Bastard were Siamese twins attached at the vocal chords." Songwriter, John Wentz's description of his band's sound as well as the origin of its name, "A figment of my imagination and would be the name of the main protagonist if I were to ever write an epic romantic novel like Les Miserables" give the perfect impression of what to expect from his songs. They are fanciful, filled with witty and funny wordplay, but ultimately grounded in reality. The EP, Argyle Johansen and his Inner Dem(o)ns, due out
September 6, 2011, collects life's experiences, earth-shattering to mundane and serves them up as song. Waiting in the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital to get stitches on a beautiful spring day, not getting enough sleep, or getting too high before having to go to work are all treated equally.
Argyle Johansen's self-titled album broke into CMJ's Top 200 and hit Top 30 charts in college radio in 2009. "Sunny Day in Hell," a track from the first album was featured in the first season of Showtime's Californication.
