Asheville band The Enemy Lovers announces move to Germany, plan to record first full-length record

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Big news here from The Enemy Lovers:

Our dreams have converged in Germany, where we will DO WHAT WE WANT for a change, and make our first full length album of new music that inspires us!  For the past two years we were “encouraged” to be what they (record labels) wanted and to not make any big moves because they would want a clean slate to work with. But we have only released an EP of 6 songs in 2 years and our goal is to change that! And freaking make a mess of our clean slate!!

From the beginning, record label execs were bending their ears to our sound.  Even before our “band” had a name.  We were flattered, and excited.  This seemed like the beginning of something great. After a year of waiting, we were stuck in limbo.  Waiting for someone to make it happen for us.  Still having only released our ep.  We continued to play shows during that time making new fans throughout the south east.  Our single “Coming Down” even became the #1 listener requested song on a popular Birmingham, Alabama radio station. The problem was that we still believed the key to success was a “label”.  After 2 years there were still no label offers, no plans for recording and very little money left.

Now we are just going to do it, a DIY project!  And give you and all our other fans a chance to contribute!  We are launching a kickstarter in the next couple of days that will have some incredible incentives for you to recieve if you pledge to this project, including album preorders, access to behind the scenes footage, live chats in the studio, custom TEL ring tones, trip to Germany to hang out with us etc!!!!