Good & Evil

Good & Evil
Studio Album
Released	June 21, 2011
Recorded	October 2009 - November 2009
Length	48:50
Label	Quack! Media (2011), Needlejuice Records (2022)
Producer	Tony Hoffer

Good & Evil is Tally Hall's second studio album. It was released on June 21, 2011 by independent label Quack! Media on CD, vinyl, and digital download.

Their record label Needlejuice Records will reissue the album sometime in 2022, with an EP featuring non-album tracks from the era. This will include Light And Night.

History

Pre-Release

After the re-release of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in 2006, Tally Hall would start to perform many new songs, partly due to the fatigue of playing the same couple songs from their first album for years. These included Misery Fell, Turn The Lights Off, and Sacred Beast. These songs seemed more mature than much of their previous work and were fan favorites, some being standards in their setlist.

In February of 2009, they would schedule multiple performances at the Union Hall building in Brooklyn, New York. At these concerts, the band would try out new songs they had written the year previous and reworkings of older songs, including You & Me, Mind Control, and &. All of these gigs would prevent recording and filming, though people would find a way to record them.

On Twitter, Tally Hall would announce they would be recording a new album sometime in the summer of 2009, however this would be rescheduled to the fall of 2009. On October 19th 2009, Tally Hall began pre-production on Good & Evil. This would include rehearsing and figuring out which songs would fit on the album. The working title of the record was to be "A Coincidence of Contradictions". It is not known when this name was scrapped.

The first day of recording would begin at The Sunset Sound Factory on October 26th with Grammy-nominated producer Tony Hoffer and engineer Todd Burke. Unlike many other artists, Tally Hall were given full creative control by Atlantic Records over Good & Evil, which helped with the general experience of making it.

It was revealed that they were recording 16 songs on Ross Federman's Twitter account, however when asked at a concert later on, it was said that they had 14 songs, so it is assumed those either became Fate Of The Stars or were 2 other songs that were scrapped. These could've been Murders or I'm Gonna Win, as they were in contention for Good & Evil.

On November 26th, Tally Hall completed tracking at 1:38am, leaving them one day to prepare for their tour with Rooney and Crash Kings. The tour lasted much of December 2009, and Tally Hall performed well despite the low rehearsal time. This tour also featured the refined instrumentation for the album tracks, including Rob Cantor performing lead vocals on his song You & Me.

In January of 2010, Rob made a note to hiddeninthesand.com about the album, reading "we're currently finishing up the mixes and very excited about the new album. can't wait for everyone to hear it..." hiddeninthesand.com predicted the release date to be no earlier than June 2010, but more likely to be summer 2010.

On January 28th, 2010 Tally Hall posted a blog on MySpace indicating they completed production on the album and had turned the album into Atlantic Records for review. In an interview with AnnArbor.com two months later, Rob revealed the name of the album, "Good & Evil". Despite this, no release date was publicly revealed and was assumed to still be released in the summer of 2010. One song from the album, You & Me, was debuted by Ann Arbor’s 107.1 on March 9th, indicating the album could've been releasing within 2010.

Meetings between the band and Atlantic Records during April 2010 were supposed to conclude with a release date, but with no announcement left speculation that the album was moved to a 2011 release date. On July 4th 2010, an interview with AnnArbor.com would reveal that the release date was moved to sometime in 2011, but that Atlantic Records remained optimistic about the album.

Back to Quack!

After a nearly 4 year long partnership, Tally Hall would part with Atlantic Records sometime in early 2011. Luckily they were allowed to keep Good & Evil and so, they once again signed with Quack!Media to release it on June 21, 2011, with a tour supporting it in July and August of 2011.

On May 2nd 2011, the first single from Good & Evil, "You And Me" was officially released on Consequenceofsound.net and YouTube. The next day, the limited edition deluxe version of Good & Evil was made available for pre-order on the Quack! Media web store. With this edition were a trophy, a photo from the Welcome To Tally Hall music video, a ticket from Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, some forehead tattoos, and a placard from their 9/17/2008 performance at Club Largo in Los Angeles.

On May 4th 2011, Amazon.com listed Good & Evil's full track listing and samples of each song. This would be most people's first taste of most of the studio work they had done over 2009. The song samples were taken down a day later on May 5th, but were saved by members of the community, who spread them amongst each other.

On June 7th 2011, pre-orders for the CD went live on Quackmedia.com. The first 250 orders got an autographed booklet by each member of Tally Hall.

In the days leading up to the album's release on June 21st, the members of Tally Hall would host two Ustream events, answering questions and premiering songs from the album. The first of these happened on June 14th, hosted by Andrew, Ross and Rob from Andrew's New York apartment. They premiered Never Meant To Know, Misery Fell and Out In The Twilight. The next day, Joe and Zubin hosted from Quack! headquarters in Ann Arbor and premiered Cannibal, Sacred Beast and You.

Post-Release

The day finally came on June 21st 2011, when the album was finally released worldwide. This came with many positive reviews for its depth and maturity in comparison to their previous album.

On July 20th, Tally Hall hosted a open rehearsal on StageIt.com to raise money for the upcoming tour. On this livestream they answered a couple questions, and performed 6 of the songs on Good & Evil. On July 21st 2011, Tally Hall started on the only tour supporting the album, with SPEAK, Casey Shea, and April Smith as opening acts. This tour would be unique, as it featured a pre-recorded introduction by Bora Karaca, who would perform with them as orange tie during the tour. Another unique part of the tour was their cover of "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, with Zubin Sedghi and Joe Hawley sharing lead vocal duties.

The last show of the tour would be at Mr. Small's Theater in Millvale, PA on August 20th 2011. This would be the last time Tally Hall would ever perform.

Needlejuice Reissue

In early 2021, it would be announced that Tally Hall signed with Needlejuice Records to re-release Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum and Good & Evil. These would release alongside EPs of non-album material from the respective album eras. The EP with Good & Evil will include Light And Night. Variants will include a picture and other colored variants, however these have yet to surface.

It is currently unknown when Good & Evil will be announced or open for pre-orders, but it is likely to within 2022.

Track listing

#	Title	Writers	Lead Singers	Duration
1.	"Never Meant To Know"	Cantor	Cantor	3:40
2.	"&"	Hawley	Hawley	3:14
3.	"You & Me"	Cantor	Cantor	2:52
4.	"Cannibal"	Sedghi	Sedghi	3:28
5.	"Who You Are"	Cantor	Cantor	3:40
6.	"Sacred Beast"	Hawley	Hawley, Sedghi, Cantor	2:22
7.	"Hymn For A Scarecrow"	Hawley	Hawley	4:50
8.	"A Lady"	Hawley	Hawley	1:05
9.	"The Trap"	Sedghi	Sedghi	4:31
10.	"Turn The Lights Off"	Hawley	Hawley, Sedghi, Cantor	2:56
11.	"Misery Fell"	Horowitz	Sedghi	3:34
12.	"Out In The Twilight"	Cantor	Cantor	2:51
13.	"You"	Horowitz	Horowitz	2:57
14.	"Fate Of The Stars"	Horowitz	Sedghi, Hawley, Cantor, Horowitz	6:50