Difference between revisions of "Good & Evil"

After the re-release of [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|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,<ref>[https://twitter.com/TallyHall/status/1719518832?s=20&t=YCLyu49tKyaUpv25gVbfBQ Tally Hall tweet about recording in summer of 2009.]</ref> 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".<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g7t-2gaQxO0wZ187M5epjiocUdbZs8alQysD7H71xPg/ 2019 Joe Hawley interview]</ref> It is not known when this name was scrapped.

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.