On their latest full-length, Legendary, The Summer Set are issuing a simple, yet essential call to fans: Be legendary. As a sonic challenge to aim high and never back down, the 12 tracks that comprise Legendary aim to provide hope and inspiration, even if it's just to forget your problems and have some fun for awhile.
The Summer Set's singer Brian Dales says the core concept behind the new record evolved into a metaphor for the singer's own personal state of affairs, as well as the mantra The Summer Set hopes to inspire their listeners with.
The Summer Set-which also includes drummer Jess Bowen, guitarists John Gomez and Josh Montgomery, and bassist Stephen Gomez-was formed in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2007, when Bowen and the brothers Gomez (all previously members of Last Call for Camden) recruited Dales and issued the self-released EP Love The Love You Have that fall. By spring, the band had landed a deal with The Militia Group, leading to the June 2008 EP In Color, followed by a third EP, Meet Me on the Left Coast, in December. It wasn't until signing with Razor & Tie in 2009 that the band began work on a proper full-length debut, and in October 2009 it finally arrived as Love Like This. The Summer Set issued their final releases with Razor & Tie with July 2011's Everything's Fine and November 2011's What Money Can't Buy EP, before signing a new contract with Fearless Records, which will release Legendary. During the last six years the band has traveled the world playing countless shows, including runs on the 2009 Alternative Press Tour, 2010 Vans Warped Tour, 2011's red-hot Dirty Work Tour with All Time Low and Yellowcard, the annual Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey, and extensive international dates in places like Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Philippines and Europe.
For the band, finding that new sound has had a lot to do with personal development, catching them at a particularly free-wheeling stage in life. After coming home from tour and having recently ended a relationship, Dales says he found himself desperately seeking a new direction, and found the answer by throwing himself headlong into his new life. It's the journey through life that drives Legendary.
With Legendary's release, The Summer Set already have an appropriately "legendary" tour itinerary penciled in for 2013, including an entire summer on the Vans Warped Tour, as well as a string of dates overseas and perhaps most excitingly, the band's full U.S. headliner, which will easily top anything the band has attempted in the past. Everything the band has done to date has led up to this moment, right here and now.
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