Dear Friends,

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This letter has been a long time coming. Honestly I think I’ve been putting it off because it’s a difficult, bittersweet thing to write but now I find myself in a place where, although it’s difficult to discuss the past, I’m excited to discuss the present.

• The Bravery (1) The Brights (10) The Cassandra Complex (1) The Chameleons (1) The Charlatans (1) The Clash (20) The Cranberries (2) The Creeps (1) The Cure (1) The Deep Season (1) The Delgados (1) The Divine Comedy (2) The Dualers (1) The Embassy (1) The Farm (2) The Field Mice (1) The Go-Betweens (4) The Heart Throbs (3) The High Llamas (1.
• The Bravery - Ours 04. Florence And The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms 05. Sia - My Love 06. Fanfarlo - Atlas 07. The Black Keys - Chop And Change 08. The Dead Weather - Rolling In On A Burning Tire 09. Beck & Bat For Lashes - Let's Get Lost 10. Vampire Weekend - Jonathan Low 11. The Black Angels - With You In My Head 12.

To answer your many queries, the band has not “broken up,” nothing so dramatic as that. We just aren’t doing anything together and don’t have any plans to for the foreseeable future. There’s been no “falling out,” no bad blood, we all just have different interests now and are involved in our own projects.

The Bravery is a beautiful thing that we are all immensely proud of, but after many years it is just not where our passions lie anymore and continuing simply out of habit or momentum would be unfair to our audience and ourselves. Will we get together again at some point? I don’t know the answer to that, it’s unclear, but for now we have no plans to.

As for the present , many of you may have seen Anthony playing drums for Morrissey on tour, or more recently with Weezer. Anthony is currently finishing an EP for his new band X My Heart and will be touring this summer as the drummer for the band White Sea. Mike has started a new band called Mike Hindert and the Wolf and continues work with his record label Merrifield Records and John has been busy at the vineyard crushing grapes and making wine with his business, Conway Family Wines. Michael is pursuing other creative interests outside of music.

For myself, I am thrilled to say that I have a new band, The Mercy Beat, which I’ve started with a couple friends of mine in Los Angeles. You can hear a couple of our songs HERE, and we are playing a free residency at the Echo next month, every Monday night in May.

On behalf of all of us in the Bravery, it’s been a magnificent ride and we can not thank you enough for making it possible. We have been given such a gift in the wonderful fans around the world that have supported us over the years, and we are immensely grateful.

With love and thanks,

Sam

The Bravery is the self-titled debut album by New York indie rockbandThe Bravery, released in March 2005. It peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200^[1] and number 5 in the UK.^[2]

The first single from the album, 'An Honest Mistake', was released on February 28, 2005. The UK and Japanese releases of the album contain the bonus track 'Hot Pursuit'. The version on the Japanese edition is a different mix, featuring Gillian Conway (keyboardist John Conway's sister) on vocals, along with Sam Endicott.

The track 'Swollen Summer' is featured in the PlayStation 2 game, Gran Turismo 4. The Bravery opened up their set with this song at the July 27, 2008 Projekt Revolution concert held in the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. The song 'Unconditional' is featured in the PlayStation 2 game, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. The song 'An Honest Mistake' is featured in the video games True Crime: New York City and MVP Baseball 2005.

Critical reception[edit]

The Bravery Mediafire Roblox

The Bravery garnered positive reviews from music critics who praised their interpretation of the new wave revival movement. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 24 reviews.^[3]

Steve Sutherland of Uncut gave high praise to the new wave revivalist production and the band's musicianship resembling that of their inspirations, in terms of vocals and instrumentals, concluding that, 'This album is already one of the debuts of the year. All hail The Bravery and their new bold dream.'^[11] MacKenzie Wilson of AllMusic praised the band for taking their influences and making them their own with catchability and upbeat optimism, saying that, 'The Bravery isn't sonically mind-blowing, but the new millennium new wave revival remains intriguing. This New York five-piece makes an interesting effort without it coming off contrived and dishonest.'^[4]

The Bravery Mediafire Game

While finding Endicott's vocal delivery mediocre at best, Nicholas Taylor of PopMatters praised the danceable production and devil-may-care lyrics for giving the band a nice platform to start from, concluding with, 'This debut is certainly promising, and I look forward to seeing whether the Bravery can begin to carve out a more concrete and distinctive image and place for themselves.'^[8]Robert Christgau graded the album as a 'dud',^[9] indicating 'a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought.'^[12]Pitchfork writer Adam Moerder criticized the band's unremarkable take on '80s new wave with lacklustre instrumentals and Endicott's vocals sounding too close to Robert Smith and Simon Le Bon. He gave praise to the tracks 'An Honest Mistake' and 'Tyrant' for their intricacies in terms of synth and vocal choices, concluding that 'Despite these highlights, though, this is still rock made on an assembly line— predictable, economically efficient, and about as dynamic as a Model T.'^[7]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Sam Endicott, except where noted.

Bonus tracks[edit]

12. 'Hot Pursuit' (Endicott, Conway) – 3:07 (UK/Japanese bonus track)
13. 'Hey Sunshiney Day' (Endicott, Conway) – 2:26 (Japanese bonus track)
14. 'Unconditional' (video) (Japanese bonus track)
15. 'An Honest Mistake' (video) (Japanese bonus track)

Personnel[edit]

Adapted from the album's liner notes.^[13]

The Bravery

• Sam Endicott – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Michael Zakarin – lead guitar, backing vocals
• John Conway – keyboards, backing vocals
• Mike Hindert – bass, backing vocals
• Anthony Burulcich – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Steven Lourie – drums on tracks 1-4 and 6-8
• Joshua Kessler – tambourine on track 10

Production

• Nic Hard – mixing
• Brian Gardner – mastering

Artwork

• Louis Marino – art direction

References[edit]

1. ^'Billboard charts'. Billboard charts. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
2. ^'British charts'. zobbel.de. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
3. ^ ^ab'Reviews for The Bravery'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
4. ^ ^abWilson, MacKenzie. 'The Bravery - The Bravery'. AllMusic. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
5. ^Peters, Sarah (April 12, 2005). 'The Bravery - The Bravery (Island Records)'. Lost At Sea. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
6. ^Moody, Paul (September 12, 2005). 'The Bravery : The Bravery'. NME. IPC Media. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
7. ^ ^abMoerder, Adam (April 19, 2005). 'The Bravery: The Bravery'. Pitchfork. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
8. ^ ^abTaylor, Nicholas (March 27, 2005). 'The Bravery: self-titled'. PopMatters. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
9. ^ ^ab'CG: Bravery'. robertchristgau.com. Robert Christgau. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
10. ^Sheffield, Rob (April 7, 2005). 'The Bravery: The Bravery'. Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
11. ^ ^abSutherland, Steve (March 8, 2005). 'The Bravery - The Bravery'. Uncut. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
12. ^Christgau, Robert (2000). 'Key to Icons'. RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
13. ^The Bravery (booklet). The Bravery. Island. 2005. B000416302.CS1 maint: others (link)