Painted Fools by The Best of the Worst

This is our fifth studio release in our ten years as a band. We spent more time rehearsing these songs than any other album we’ve done and feel that it shows in the music.

We didn’t realize at the time, but “Painted Fools” is our most thematic album to date. The album touches on the gripes we face coming into our middle age: falling out of touch with friends, people around you changing for the worse, feeling complacent and struggling with making choices, the banalities of everyday life..etc. It wasn’t really planned, but it came together pretty cohesively; I think we were just all feeling the same sort of way at once.

Thanks to anyone has booked us for a show, offered us a place to crash on tour, bought a shirt or cd, streamed a song, or laughed at our band as we set up to play. We do this for ourselves, the friends we made along the way, and to refute the people who think that a band with horns can’t do anything interesting in the year 2017.

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video for "In My Apartment" https://youtu.be/Z5N8FFCU2yw

All songs written and recorded by The Best of the Worst
Engineered and mixed by Joe Dell’Aquila at Exeter Recordings
Recorded between 10.10.2016 and 11.11.2016
Mastered by Jeremy Cimino
Pictures by Kaitlyn Bemis
Layout by Mike Maroney
Additional vocals on It Doesn’t Really Matter by Tom Etts

Tracklist

1.	Habits Live Hard	3:31

2.	In My Apartment	3:12

3.	Where Complacency Lives.	2:54

4.	Spoiler Alert:	3:24

5.	It Doesn’t Really Matter,	1:23

6.	Like Bugs In Amber	3:45

7.	We’ve Been Held Captive.	3:21

Credits

released April 20, 2017

Jason Selvaggio – guitar, vocals
Joe Scala – drums, vocals
Liz Fackelman – trombone, vocals
Garrett Weber – guitar
Ryan Edwards – tenor sax
Kate Meyer – trumpet
Ryan Kosinski – bass

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.