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Safe Travels

by Jukebox the Ghost

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Somebody 04:06
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Oh, Emily 04:03
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At Last 03:36
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Say When 04:06
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Dead 04:15
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Adulthood 03:31
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All For Love 03:32
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about

Ask Brooklyn’s Jukebox the Ghost why their third album is called Safe Travels, on a
surface level, it’s likely they’ll tell you about a song by Austin’s Red Hunter, who
performs as Peter and the Wolf. The song’s from his 2006 album Lightness and the band
became enamored with it to a point where it soon morphed into a road mantra. “That
song has a lot of emotion and was a song we listened to a lot when we were touring,”
says Jukebox drummer Jesse Kristin. “Simply put, the album title is a reference to that
and not having a home.”
The songs on Safe Travels were written in the second half of 2011 and it would be the
first time they’d been afforded studio time for as long as they wanted. The sessions took
place in Brooklyn, with their friend Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owens
Young) producing. The result is a collection of 13 songs that finds the band maturing in
both a musical and lyrical sense.
They’d be the first to admit that their previous two records had a charming, “hyperactive”
quality about them but you don’t get that sense here. There’s a balance between the
peppy piano pop of songs like upbeat opener “Somebody” and “Don’t Let Me Fall
Behind” to more poignant, instrumentation that speaks to the band’s desire to travel into
new sonic territory. Ben uses his classical background in writing a number of string
arrangements, with the band continuing to explore their own pop-meets- jazz-meets- prog
rock backgrounds.
“When we started the band, we were two independent songwriters and made it
work,”says pianist Ben Thornewill of Jukebox’s prior song constructing processes. “Now
we understand what the other one is best at doing, so we write for that and think about
how we are going to complement each other.”
These qualities are most exemplified by “Dead,” “Ghosts in the Empty House,” “The
Spiritual” and “Adulthood” – songs that deal with death and mortality head on, with an
immediacy that was masked before. In the past, Ben was the more romantic songwriter of
the band and Tommy leaned more towards sci-fi imagery. Romantic elements still exist
on Safe Travels, but as they move further and further away from their college days where
they first met and more into their own individual lives, they’ve matured and naturally,
their sound and what they want listeners to know about them has as well. “In the past, we
could fit into our niches and be caricatures of ourselves,” says guitarist Tommy Siegel.
“On this record the songwriting feels more honest, steeped in our own life experiences.
You’d get a clearer sense of who we are as people.”

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released June 12, 2012

2012, 2012 Yep Roc Records

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Ask Brooklyn’s Jukebox the Ghost why their third album is called Safe Travels, on a
surface level, it’s likely they’ll tell you about a song by Austin’s Red Hunter, who
performs as Peter and the Wolf. The song’s from his 2006 album Lightness and the band
became enamored with it to a point where it soon morphed into a road mantra.
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