I'm becoming more & more of a fan of their music over time. If time & money allows, I may start hunting down the rest of their discography that I don't yet have...
Relient K is from Canton, OH. Their first gig, as described on their website*, was in Dec. 1997; "back when Matthew Thiessen (voc's) & guitarist Matt Hoopes were still in high school & tooling around in the latter's Plymouth Reliant K, which inspired the band's name". Their demo "All Work & No Play" came within a year's time, produced by Mark Lee Townsend who was known beforehand as the guitarist for dc Talk (& has stuck with them, still producing their music). The demo caught the ears of dc Talk's Toby McKeehan, aka tobyMac, & he signed Relient K to Gotee Records. A preview EP ("2000 A.D.D. EP"[2000]) came, before their self-titled label LP debuted also in 2000. Since then, they've released a score of EP's & LP's, their latest LP being "Forget and Not Slow Down" [2009]; it was their 6th official LP, & also their first release on Mono vs. Stereo Records, which is an imprint label of Gotee Records. They have a cover album called "K is for Karaoke" set to be released Oct. 4th, 2011. This song is from "Forget and Not Slow Down".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzp5bindXfQ
* - http://relientk.com/
Also, you can download their song "The Scene & Herd" from their b-sides album "The Birds & the B-Sides" [2008] for FREE off Gotee's website; all that's required is an e-mail address & being alright with receiving occasional updates from the label.
http://gotee.com/
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