C/O/R/D (CORD) - Later Is Better For Me, If That's OK

Norwich cult band CORD have refactored and re-mastered what would have made up their second album for Island Records - if they had not been dropped after failing to convert their first, widely misunderstood album, into commercial success in 2006. Formed in October 2000, the band signed to Island in April 2004. Single Winter charted at number 34 in Summer 2006 and their debut album Other People's Lives Are Not As Perfect As They Seem was released in October 2006. Songwriter James Leeds sums it up - "Island desperately wanted us to turn away from our early influences of Sunny Day Real Estate, Muse, Deus, et al and produce something commercially similar to Coldplay. We were kids offered a golden ticket and made the wrong choice, something we quickly realised. The songs that form 'Later Is Better for Me, If That's OK' were a rebellion against the big-record-company shareholder-profit culture, and Island consequently balked upon hearing the first demos - this wasn't what they'd ordered! - . The ironic thing is it's a much better record."

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