TIME TRAVEL [Import Disc]

[Machine Translation] The musical journey continues... Christopher Drew's one-man project: Never Shout Never returns to the scene with a new band format! With over 2.5 million fans on Facebook, almost 50 million views on their MySpace profile, and over 157 million plays on their music! In addition, their songs have been played over 157 million times! These staggering numbers come from Never Shout Never, the one-man project of young singer/songwriter/guitarist Christopher Drew. Now that Christopher has turned 20 years old, he has joined his friends from his home state of Missouri, Drew, Caleb Denison (guitar/drums/percussion), Taylor MacFee (bass), and Hayden Kaiser (guitar, percussion), to form Never Shout Never. Never Shout Never returns to the scene with a new band format. I always thought Never Shout Never should be a band," says Christopher, and Time Travel is the result of his attempt to create something completely different from the six EPs and two albums he has released to date. Recorded and produced by Christopher himself in a studio just outside of his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, Time Travel is a departure from his previous album, Harmony, which was produced by the legendary producer Butch Vig, and is a much more mature and grown-up album. The songs are about heartbreak, love, and the loss of a loved one. The songs are from Christopher's personal side, such as heartbreak and emotional crisis, and also feature "Silver Ecstasy," the first song written by a songwriter other than Christopher in Never Shout Never's history. Never Shout Never's current masterpiece, "Time Travel," is the result of their desire to keep making music, playing shows, and experimenting with sound, and to have people enjoy their music as well.

Note: This is an import edition (manufactured outside of Japan).

音楽という旅はまだまだ続く・・・クリストファー・ドリューの1人プロジェクト: Never Shout Neverが新たにバンド形態となってシーンに戻ってきた! Facebookで250万人以上のファンを集め、MySpaceのプロフィール閲覧数はほぼ5千万回。さらに楽曲の再生数は15700万回以上! そんな驚異的な数字を叩き出しているのは、若きシンガー・ソングライター/ギタリスト、クリストファー・ドリューの1人プロジェクト、Never Shout Never。そのクリストファーも20歳となり、地元ミズーリ州の友人たちであるDrew, Caleb Denison (guitar/drums/percussion), Taylor MacFee (bass) and Hayden Kaiser (guitar, percussion)を迎えたNever Shout Neverは新たにバンド形態となってシーンに戻ってきた。「Never Shout Neverはバンドであるべきだとずっと思っていた」と語るChristopherが、これまでリリースしてきた6枚のEP、2枚のアルバムとは全く違うものを作ろうとして出来上がったのがこの『Time Travel』である。大御所プロデューサー: ブッチ・ヴィグを迎えて制作された前作『Harmony』から打って変わって、地元ミズーリ州スプリングフィールドから僅かに出たところにあるスタジオに篭り、自らレコーディングからプロデュースを手掛けて制作されたこの作品には、サウンド的にも大きく成長した、一段と大人になったNever Shout Neverの姿がある。曲の内容も、失恋や精神的な危機といったChristopherのパーソナルな面から生まれたものの他、Never Shout Never史上初めてChristopher以外のソングライターが手掛けた曲「Silver Ecstasy」もフィーチャーされている。ずっと音楽を作り続け、ライヴし続け、音の冒険や実験を繰り返しながら人々にも自分たちの音楽を楽しんでもらいたい、そう望むNever Shout Neverの現時点での最高傑作、それが『Time Travel』である。