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Dear Hunter - Red Hands
"Red Hands" appears in the album Act II: The Meaning Of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading the second release and first full-length album from The Dear Hunter. It was released on May 22, 2007 on Triple Crown Records. Grab the hottest Dear Hunter merch around click here.
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Dear Hunter Bio
The Dear Hunter is a full-time project of Casey Crescenzo, formerly of post-hardcore band The Receiving End of Sirens. The band's sound is not unlike that of Casey's former band, but with more alternative and progressive rock tendencies and a wider variety of instrumentation.
Origins
The band began as a side project of Casey Crescenzo when he was full time member of Boston band The Receiving End of Sirens. It was originally intended as a vehicle for music Casey had written that didn't fit with the heavier sound of The Receiving End of Sirens. In the winter of 2005 Casey recorded the Dear Ms. Leading demos. He created 10 copies of the demos on burned CDs intended for the ears of friends, and they began circulation. At the time he did not plan to pursue The Dear Hunter full time and allowed the demos to be placed online for download. On February 2, 2006, The Dear Hunter played its first show with The Receiving End of Sirens as the backing band.
Act I
In May 2006, Casey left The Receiving End of Sirens and began work on The Dear Hunter's first studio album. He expanded the scope of the project to a six-album story set at the dawn of the 20th century about the birth, life, and abrupt death of a boy, known only in the story as "The Dear Hunter." In a 2007 interview with music website Absolutepunk.net, Casey stated that he already has the overall story of The Dear Hunter mapped out, with each act in 1-3 page treatments. Casey produced and recorded the EP by himself with only of the help of his brother on drums and mother on backing vocals. Act I: The Lake South, The River North was released in September 2006 on Triple Crown Records.
Shortly after the EP's release, Casey recruited Luke Dent of the recently split band Faraway for vocals and keyboards and Erick Serna as a second guitarist. Luke brought in his brother Sam on drums and Erick brought long-time friend Josh Rheault in to play bass. The complete band entered the studio in late 2006 to record the follow-up to Act I. Recording finished in early 2007, during which time, the band was featured in Alternative Press' "100 Bands You Need to Know in 2007."
Act II
Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading was released May 22, 2007, only eight months after the band's previous release. Originally, the band had written almost 2 hours of music for the album, but managed to trim the run time down to 80 minutes, the maximum allowed on a compact disc. Since the album's release, the band has toured with As Tall As Lions, Saves the Day, Say Anything, Chris Conley, The Format, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Boys Night Out along with some headlining dates. In November 2007, the band embarked on a tour with Circa Survive, Ours, and Fear Before the March of Flames.
The band recently finished filming a music video for the song "The Church and the Dime". They have also announced that they are currently working on nine albums, each of which is inspired by a different color of the visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), with black and white added as bookends. They will include many guest appearances, and will span many different genres of music. Casey has said that the band's main focus will still be the Act albums and music, but that each of the color albums will be from 30 to 60 minutes in length.
A book based on the story of Act II is currently in the works. Artist Kent St. John was selected to do the illustrations. Some of the preliminary artwork can be seen on St. John's website.
Prior to a string of dates with Circa Survive, Josh Rheault and brothers Sam and Luke Dent all left the band. Temporary replacements for the following tour dates included Cliff Sarcona and Julio Tavarez of As Tall As Lions, Chris Tagliaferro of Wave Down the Planes, and Andy Wildrick of The Junior Varsity. Wildrick would later join the band as a permanent member, along with Sagan Jacobsen of Crown Atlantic on bass and Casey's brother Nick on drums.
The band embarked on their first headlining tour in mid-2008 with Lydia, Eye Alaska, and You, Me, and Everyone We Know. After the tour, the band plans to enter the studio to record Act III, which they hope to release in early 2009.
On December 9, 2008, it was announced that Nate Patterson, Casey's former band mate in The Receiving End of Sirens, would begin playing bass for the band.
Act III
The band's latest full length, Act III: Life and Death was released on the 23rd of June 2009 on Triple Crown Records.
During this time, former bassist Josh Rheault announced on tour that he had rejoined The Dear Hunter on acoustic guitar, backing vocals, and keyboards.
Branches EP
The Branches EP is three songs in length and was released exclusively to those who purchased the band's "Lifetime Fan Package" on May 5, 2010.
The Color Spectrum CD & EPs
At a concert at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on Friday, April 23, 2010, Casey announced that the band would be recording music for their color project over the summer of 2010. He also stated that Act IV would most likely not be seen for quite some time. Although frequent updates were promised, they have been rare; although, recently, two songs from the Color EP's have hit YouTube. One from the Green EP and another from the White EP. On January 8th, 2011, in a post on the tdhcolors website Casey stated that the White, Violet, Orange, and Green eps were fully completed, and that at the end of the month he would be flying to Atlanta to record more Colors music. On February 11, a new post by Casey stated that Red was done and members of Manchester Orchestra helped in the recording process. Yellow is the next Color - ep that he will work on. On Casey's twitter feed he suggested that the ep's might be out as early as May.
On Thursday, February 24, 2011, Alternative Press revealed the EPs, cumulatively referred to as "The Color Spectrum", would be released June 7, 2011 in multiple formats, including a physical CD that contains select tracks from each of the EPs.
Act IV
Little is known about the future of this album, only that the band has confirmed it, and that it will be released at some point. Although it had been stated that Act IV would be an EP, then a full length LP, the latest Casey has said is 'I don't know' regarding the format.
Band News
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