~Touche Amore~

Touche Amore 

Touche Amore is a 5 piece post-hardcore band formed in Los Angeles California during 2007. The band currently consists of: 

• Jeremy Bolm - lead vocals 
• Clayton Stevens - guitar 
• Nick Steinhardt - guitar
• Tyler Kirby - bass 
• Elliot Babin - drums  

Discography 

Touche Amore has a total of 3 studio albums, 8 EP's and 4 music videos. 

Studio Albums: 

• ...To The Beat of a Dead Horse (released in 2009) 
• Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me (released in 2011) 
• Is Survived By (released in 2013) 

EP's

• Demo (released in 2008) 
• Searching For a Pulse/The Worth of the World (this was a split album done with La Dispute, released in 2010) 
• Touche Amore/Make Do and Mend (this was a split album done with Make Do and Mend released in 2010) 
• Live at WERS (released in 2010) 
• Live on BBC Radio 1 (released in 2012) 
• Touche Amore/The Casket Lottery (split album done with The Casket Lottery released in 2012) 
• Touche Amore/Pianos Become The Teeth (split album done with Pianos Become the Teeth released 2013)
• Touche Amore/Title Fight(split album done with Title Fight released in 2013) 

Music Videos 

• Home Away From Here (2011) 
• Pathfinder (2011) 
• Gravity, Metaphorically (2013) 
• Harbor (2013) 

Personal Experience 

On October 29th, I saw Touche Amore  live in Reno and they opened for another one of my favorite bands, AFI (who I will be blogging about next week.) To read about my concert experience, click here. To see some of the pictures I got from the concert, click here. This band has gotten me through A LOT. Their lyrics, their sound. Everything. I have a lot of favorite songs by them, but I will choose a few. (In no particular order) 

1. I'll Get My Just Deserve 
2. Honest Sleep
3. Gravity, Metaphorically 
4. Condolences
5. Anyone/Anything
6. Amends 
7. Adieux

Lyrics to Honest Sleep :

Sun down Sun up
I speak in sarcasm to relate to all the things I appreciate
I lie in rhythm to open doors I follow suit and just want more
My reputation is the same its been and I don't care what happens
I read the book so I know the end
I've probably said too much
But I've never felt more accomplished
I'm losing sleep
I'm losing friends
I've got a love hate love
With the city I'm in
I'll count the hours
Having just one wish
If I'm doing fine
There's no point to this.

Lyrics to Amends :

What have I seen other than what the bottom looks like?
Stuck somewhere between the gloom and the light
When you're working towards building back those broken boards
You sometimes lose your footing
You often find yourself putting off everyone while finding comfort in other songs
To distract the fact that you're actually disappearing
I have no excuses that I can offer
Just the hope that your forgiveness will hold back the water
For what its worth… I'm sorry
And at the end I swear I'm trying.

"Anyone / Anything"

You want to know what I am doing here? 
The same reason it’s been for all these 
years. Being made to feel like an outcast in 
my own home. You question me on my own 
affinity, well I ask of you, “who do you think 
you see?” Being made to feel like I’m no 
longer wanted in the place I found for that 
same problem. I don’t owe anyone, I don’t 
owe anything, so stop expecting everything 
from me. You don’t owe me a thing, I’m just 
trying to be, so just stop answering for me. 
I see the contradiction. I see through it’s 
ways. I see through everyone living fast in a 
passing phase. There’s people that changed 
me. There’s songs that saved me from all of 
this. There’s days that defined me. There’s 
nights that gave me strength from all of 
this. So here I am looking past it all reciting.

"Adieux"

12-31: I counted down the days 
’til I could wave goodbye to that early grave.

01-01: the weather hasn’t changed, but the story’s over; 
it’s time to turn the page. 
I was not born with a strong voice; 
it’s never been one to boom. 
But I’ll be damned to go out quiet, 
if it’s the only thing I’ll lose.

(I couldn't find a few songs because safety mode is enabled on the fucking computer I'm using) Everything by them is amazing but those seem to be the songs I listen to the most if I don't just listen to their discography all the way through.