The Tyler Trudeau Attempt is a rock band that believes pop music should try to be art and that art needs to be enjoyable. Taking the energy of punk rock and applying it to ideas from several decades' worth of pop music, the Attempt is at once art-punk and total sock-hop music, revisionist and forward-thinking. Recorded around the middle of 2006, In My Despair, I Took Up Painting is the second studio EP they've released (the first being Why Don't You Come Out to My Twist Party?, released in early 2003). Its five songs detail underemployment, youthful ambition, gender confusion, political alienation and provincial pride with dry wit and irrepressible pop hooks. The band's members live in or near New Haven, CT.

The Tyler Trudeau Attempt is a rock band that believes pop music should try to be art and that art needs to be enjoyable. Taking the energy of punk rock and applying it to ideas from several decades' worth of pop music, the Attempt is at once art-punk and total sock-hop music, revisionist and forward-thinking. Recorded around the middle of 2006, In My Despair, I Took Up Painting is the second studio EP they've released (the first being Why Don't You Come Out to My Twist Party?, released in early 2003). Its five songs detail underemployment, youthful ambition, gender confusion, political alienation and provincial pride with dry wit and irrepressible pop hooks. The band's members live in or near New Haven, CT.

Track Listing

	Track Title				Add track to cart	Click to play sample
1.	I Got A Lot Of Poverty		(3:40)		$0.99
2.	Best Days		(2:45)		$0.99
3.	We're An UnAmerican Band		(3:10)		$0.99
4.	I'm Gonna Be A Mess		(3:25)		$0.99
5.	New Haven Is Where The Action Is		(2:55)		$0.99

More Info

Release Year	2006
Label	fromage-cinq records
Sounds Like	Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Mission of Burma, The Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Modern Lovers, Ted Leo
Genre	Rock, Pop
Website	www.tylertrudeau.com
2ndary Website	www.myspace.com/thetyler...
Band Members / Musicians	On this disc: Tyler Trudeau: vocals, guitar, auxiliary bass John Mordecai: organ, vocals Mike McLellan: bass Martin Kotucek: drums Currently: Tyler John Alex Larson: bass Bob Rock: drums
Location	New Haven, CT, USA

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