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here’s a track on Rigorous Proof’s forthcoming album titled “Post Modern Apocalypse Blues.” The band’s frontman, guitarist-vocalist Johnny Bailey, said he wrote the song because people kept referring to Rigorous Proof as a blues outfit. “And it was just, you know, kind of people being lazy because they didn’t know what to call us,” Bailey said. “I wanted to give them a blues song, even though it’s not a blues song.” But if blues is a poor description of Rigorous Proof’s sound, it’s only because the term is far too specific. When the band released a single in the summer of 2012, RN&R Editor Brad Bynum called it “a radio-ready track that would fit well between, say, Kings of Leon and The Black Keys on a contemporary modern rock summer jams playlist.” The same can be said of the tracks on Rigorous Proof’s 2011 debut EP, as well as its most recent release, a 2015 LP called Perspectives. “We called it that because there were so many different styles on the album,” Bailey said. It’s true. Between the two albums, Rigorous Proof has covered a lot of rock ’n’ roll ground in the last six plus years—including, Bailey admitted, some work that’s clearly in blues territory.
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WOOD FIRED CUISINE “The new album, though, is straight-ahead, postmodern alternative rock—alternative rock being anything from the ’90s, you know, Nirvana, up to Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, indie rock, that type of stuff,” he said. Postmodern alternative rock feels like a roomy descriptor but an appropriate one, nonetheless. The band’s style definitely evolved between albums. Songs from East 8th St., released in 2011, moves along at a quick pace, with a fairly uniform, pop-influenced sound. Four years later, with Perspectives, the band revealed a more mature, diversified repertoire. Still, the umbrella label Bailey devised suits both equally well. Rigorous Proof’s discography would fit nicely among any collection of ’90s alt rock standards. The new album, also titled Post Modern Apocalypse Blues, looks to do the same—while also incorporating some new elements. “We’re kind of using Lando, our keyboard player, a little more because he can do much more than just piano and organ,” Bailey said. “He can do strings or horns and stuff on his keyboard. So we’re kind of using that to our advantage.” It’s also the first album written by and recorded with only the band’s four core members—Bailey on guitar and vocals, Adam Landis on keys and vocals, Jesse Gaddis on bass, and Wesley Forster on drums. The album will be available on cassette, CD and, possibly, vinyl. As of press time, recording was not complete, but Bailey said fans should expect “five electric numbers, and possibly one acoustic number—if we can record it in time.” Ω