The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Bio
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die speak to a universal experience: of home, of suburbia, of community, of nostalgia for a time not so long ago after all. Atmospheric and breathy, emotionally raw and heavy, The World Is’ reputation as one of today’s seminal “second-waver“ emo bands precedes them.
The World Is experience is a rich one. This is in part due to the varied history of the six people in the band, a Connecticut-bred lineup finalized as recently as 2011 despite their 2009 formation. Greg Horbal (also an agent with Hope This Helps Booking), Chris Teti (also an engineer at Connecticut’s Silver Bullet Studios) and Steven K. Buttery (also in the band Ferocious Fucking Teeth, runs a screenprinting operation of his own) were all formerly in a similarly significant Connecticut band, My Heart to Joy. Shanholtzer is a working visual artist, has operated a popular Connecticut house venue (The Handsome Woman) for years as well as contributed to bands like One Hundred Year Ocean, SOFX and
The band has three releases under their belt with the Topshelf family including their debut EP 7“ Formlessness, Josh Is Dead 7“ (also released as a cassette through Ice Age Records) and most recently a split with New Hampshire’s Deer Leap entitled ...Are Here to Help. Their highly anticipated full-length will released in the spring.
(Bio by Elise Granata.)
Press
“In just four songs, The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die capture what it is to be in a band. They capture what it is to just create music for the sake of creation.”
-AbsolutePunk (On Formlessness)
“You should not let the ridiculous band name put you off (for the record, I actually quite like it, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think it was a bit much) because in ‘Formlessness’ The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have created one of the most gorgeously beautiful EPs in recent memory.'”
-Sputnik Music
“With such emo revival bands like Prawn, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) and Driving On City Sidewalks, it easily confirms that indeed, emo and post-rock, can possibly be the perfect couple.”
-Aiko Ilagan
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