Touche Amore "Stage Four" Color:BLACK After The Get Up Kids'

After The Get Up Kids' previous album

while "These Days" and "This Girl is Crazy" offer a chance to escape

the post-punk vigor expressed on Clash The Truth

which both featured on his 1982 self-titled debut album

showing an intoxicating ambition

Touche Amore "Stage Four" Color:BLACK After The Get Up Kids'The band had reached a high point in notoriety when frontman Jeremy Bolm received news that his mother had been diagnosed with Stage Four cancer. With the band's support, Bolm wanted to go on hiatus to care for his ailing mother. However, as his biggest supporter, she encouraged him to continue on living his dream. So he returned to the road with bandmates guitarists Nick Steinhardt and Clayton Stevens, bassist Tyler Kirby, and drummer Elliot Babin.