Bad Books was never an intended or was a calculated side project of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Though the two musicians have collaborated and performed together on tour and within the Favorite Gentlemen community of artists for years now, the genesis of Bad Books came from a simple idea to fill space and time off the road by collaborating on a small batch of songs together. With no agenda and no expectations, what was birthed just one week later was Bad Books. The self-titled debut was released via Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the record label that was founded and has been run by Manchester Orchestra. As songwriters go, Hull and Devine could not be further apart in terms of creative approach. The methodical wordsmith Devine and the English major from Fordham, is known to pine away for great lengths of time just to accurately pin-point one word within a lyric. The second collaboration between singer/songwriter Kevin Devine and Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra, Bad Books II finds these two extraordinary tunesmiths untethered from their respective brands, joining forces to reach new stylistic and emotional terrain. The real-time sound of a group of talented friends synthesizing into something altogether more cohesive and accessible, Bad Books reveals a remarkable new band in the truest sense, emboldened and at ease enough to set out together for places unknown..

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