Four Year Strong - Brain Pain Deluxe - Mint Green/Halloween Orange - 2XLP

Four Year Strong aka vocalist/guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss and drummer Jake Massucco, began conceptualizing the ideas for Brain Pain two years ago. For the past year-and-a-half they focused on bringing those thoughts to fruition. "We didn't want to set a strict deadline for this album because we wanted to be sure we took the time to write the best songs possible. In the past our writing and recording was so dependent on getting something out in time to go on tour; this time we really had the opportunity to take our time and work through these ideas," explains Day. In order to capture that sound the group enlisted producer Will Putney, who was an engineer on 2010's Enemy Of The World and already had a relationship with the band.

"We were really emotionally invested in this music so we wanted to go with someone who we knew would care about it as much as we did and Will was that guy," Day adds. Vocally Brain Pain sees the band being more direct and carrying over cohesive themes in a way they haven't done in the past, making for a more complete narrative. "I think that from a lyrical perspective this is the most thought we've ever put into a record," Dan O' Connor explains - and it shows. 

A1        It's Cool
A2        Get Out Of My Head
A3        Crazy Pills
A4        Talking Myself In Circles
A5        Learn To Love The Lie
A6        Brain Pain
B1        Mouth Full Of Dirt
B2        Seventeen
B3        Be Good When I'm Gone
Cello – Lisa Jackson (9)
Engineer [String Arrangements Engineered By], Engineer [Strings Engineered By] – Randy Slaugh
Engineer [Strings Engineered By] – Guy Randle
Viola – Caryn Bradley
Violin – Emily Huntington, Emily Rust
B4        The Worst Part About Me
B5        Usefully Useless
B6        Young At Heart
C1        MYVEK
C2        Pipe Dream
C3        Get Out Of My Head (Acoustic)
C4        Talking Myself In Circles (Acoustic)
C5        Learn To Love The Lie (Acoustic)