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"...the record evokes influences from rock bands from the "peak of the 80s, like U2 and The Cure... while title track "You and I in Heaven" references a similar 80s pop-goth vibe, its overall spirit leans more towards Bowie/Psychedelic Furs elements." - Dave Cromwell / The Deli Magazine

You and I in Heaven is the first release featuring the new line up from Brooklyn based band, Tyburn Saints. Johnny Gimenez was born and raised in pre-Guiliani New York City. An orphan, he was raised by his Brooklynite grandmother and taught the classic virtues that shaped him and kept him away from the gritty pitfalls that claimed many of his family and friends. He’s often described childhood memories as bleak and sepia toned with the usual cast of characters: hustlers, junkies, thugs, clowns, and the good people who love and accept them.

Gimenez met founding member and keyboardist Matthew Chapman at college in upstate NY. Drawn to each other by their love of cinema and their mutual student film collaborations, they also had a retro music kinship. This led to an instrumental musical project aimed at creating a cinematic soundscape of post punk and surf rock. Chapman introduced the synthesizer and demystified all the sounds that later formed the aesthetic of Tyburn Saints. He serves as a taste barometer, filtering the unsavory and encouraging the essential.

It was during this early period that Gimenez formed a punk group that he would play the college circuit with. After their first show, he met Justin Lomery, a teenage guitar prodigy who wanted to join the group. Lomery was hired instantly based on his style and working knowledge of the music. Eventually they parted ways and Lomery went on to a dizzying career playing guitar with Jesse Malin and being shown the ropes by Malin collaborator Ryan Adams. There were tours, lost irreplaceable vintage guitars, loves, and eventually a falling out that caused a self imposed exile to Los Angeles, where he initially took up residency in Glen Danzig‘s guesthouse with roommate and punk pioneer Howie Pyro. Justin swirled his way through the LA music scene but had not sunk his roots in anywhere. Disillusioned, it was while working on a music project with actor Jared Leto, during which Leto advised Justin that he shouldn’t be wearing so much black, that he decided to take a break from playing. Around this time Lomery and Gimenez reconnected and Justin expressed interest in collaborating with Tyburn Saints. Before that could happen, Lomery was asked to join post punk pioneer Mark Burgess on his touring version of The Chameleons UK (The ChameleonsVox). They toured America and he was asked to tour with the UK outfit of The ChameleonsVox throughout Europe. Upon his return, Lomery moved back to NYC and joined Tyburn Saints on guitar and they began writing new material. From their early days in music, Gimenez and Lomery have shared a seemingly telepathic understanding of their guitar rhythms and vocal arrangements. They weave their styles into the sonic wall of sound that is the current watermark of Tyburn Saints.

The group would not be complete without their core, a fantastic new rhythm section of two gentlemen who are worlds apart from each other. Bassist William McCormack moved to NY via Ireland, where he played and recorded in everything from dance-punk-funk groups to progressive-dub projects. A Mod all the way, William’s style is the envy of many, bespoke suits and never a hair out of place, his tidy vintage short-scale bass playing functions as both a root and melody. Drummer Micky Savage, also a New York native, possesses a strict attention to rhythmic perfection. The groups resident hipster, Mick has his finger on the pulse of the contemporary Indie scene, and can often be found prowling the finer eating establishments of Williamsburg. In a coincidental twist, during a dark period of his life, Savage had purchased and then lost an apartment in the same building where Johnny Gimenez had grown up.

 

It was an after-show party with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds that inspired Johnny to push Tyburn Saints harder. His aunt had run away to Berlin in the 1980’s and lived with the band. Hearing their stories first hand, this long time in the making meeting with her old friends, and his musical idols, confirmed all that was most important in life: music, family and friends.

Tyburn Saints is essentially a return to our roots. You and I in Heaven is merely a shard off the mashing of our talents. Recorded In the home studio of Rival School guitarist Ian Love, under the guidance of Woodstock music royalty Brian Goss, the group is already hard at work in their follow up. The band thus far has shared the stage with Dean Wareham playing Galaxie 500, DGeneration, The ChameleonsVox, Dragonette, The Duke and the King, and played the NXNE festival in Toronto.

Artist - Tyburn Saints

Album - You and I in Heaven
US Release Date - March 27, 2012

Tracklist:

01.  You and I in Heaven
02.  The Last Time I Sing For You

03.  You Don't Send For Me, I Send For You

04.  Broken Bottles

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"This is well executed dark rock that will find fans among those who revere Mr. Nick Cave's

musical output." - The Deli Magazine

"Influences are myriad, but not slavishly aped, covering post rock to classic 80s gothic pop to Nick Cave at his most operatic, but Gimenez’s own deep, baritone rumble is distinctive enough, and the songs original enough, to make comparisons spurious. Simply put, Tyburn Saints are one powerful proposition – you’d do well to dip in and have yourself a little listen."

- Mad Mackerel

“Tyburn Saints don't sound anything like saints, that's for sure. They actually sound quite like the opposite: maudit artists. Johnny Gimenez's deep, tenebrous tenor knows how to scream at us ("oh Sable"), but also how to lure us with vicious whispers or charming dark ballads ("Bells"). This is well executed dark rock that will find fans among those who revere Mr. Nick Cave's musical output.”

- NYC Artists on the Rise, The Deli Magazine

"Who among us doesn't like a good murder ballad?  Personally, I can't get enough of them. Unfortunately Nick Cave can only produce so many albums. That's where Brooklyn's Tyburn Saints step in. If you like your music with a heap of American Gothic doom-and-gloom, then this band and this album are calling your name."

- Snob's Music

"It sounds like the theme tune to a slasher film written by Nick Cave. With the extravagantly moustachio'd Johnny Gimenez's deep tenor reaching the parts other voices cannot reach it could well be the sexiest serial killer based love song ever written."

- The Devil Has the Best Tuna