The Love Letter Band (AKA Bad Weather California) “Fear not my brothers, fear not my sisters, for I have seen the future…” To compartmentalize: This record will play well on a radio show with The Danielson Family, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Leonard Cohen, Akron Family, Will Oldham, Neutral Milk Hotel, The microphones, Little Wings, Feathers etc. If you’re going to file it file it there. But compartmentalizing is hard to do. That’s why one sheets are hard to write! If you haven’t heard of The Love Letter Band you should know this: They are anything but a band in the traditional sense. The word collective is thrown around quite liberally these days since the success that the word had with a certain Elephant 6 in the 90’s. But TLLB is just that: A collective of artists and music players rotating around the loose nucleus that is songwriter Chris Adolf. The Love Letter Band has been around: as in around the country countless times touring the United States, Canada and Mexico calling broken tour vans and random living room sofas home. These weary eyed travelers have worked hard and have made themselves known the old fashioned way. Since their first tour with Leeds UK’s Boyracer to the epic voyages with K records’ Wolf Colonel, Adolf and his rotating cast of thrift store instrument players have shared bills with Doug Marsh(Built to Spill), The Microphones, Mirah, Calvin Johnson, David Dondero, CEX, The Blow… You get the picture. With “Fear Not My Brothers…” we are astonished with Adolf’s growth as a songwriter and recording artist. From their 2002 full length (“even the pretty girls take medicine” (555 records of Leeds UK)) to this latest anticipated opus “Fear Not My Brothers…” Adolf has grown from bedroom pop wizard to polished studio craftsman. Not that this album isn’t lacking the rawness that is TLLB. It is Adolf’s honest lyricism that has established TLLB as a loved member of the indie folk/pop scene. (If you’re into genres.) Oh yeah, Chris lives in Denver Colorado and grew up on a tree farm. Like you care! Look for a southern United States Tour this January with K records' Wolf Colonel, a west coast tour this Spring and a European/Japanese tour late summer 2006