- From Safety To Where
From Safety To Where was a
Post-punk trio fromColumbia, South Carolina known for its jarring guitar/bass interplay and frantic, screaming vocals. TheJoy Division reference in the band's name was only slightly evident in its music, which evolved from terse, minimalist,post-hardcore into dark, melodic post-punk. The band signed to New York City's [http://www.radicalrecords.com Radical Records] in2002 , which released FSTW's most notable album, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ajfixqr0ldae Irreversible Trend] . The album ranked in the Top 75 of [http://www.cmj.com/ CMJ's] Top 200 albums chart that July, spawning the college radio hit, [http://www.last.fm/music/From+Safety+To+Where/_/Only+Now "Only Now."] Propelled by the appearance of its ethereal instrumental, "Monument" (from Irreversible Trend), on [http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/realworld-season11/series.jhtml MTV's The Real World season 11] and several tours of the East Coast and Midwest throughout 2002, the band recorded its final album, Interference, over the course of the next two years, only to succumb to a souring internal relationship before it could be released.Band Members
*Eric Greenwood - vocals, bass, keyboards
*Steven Walters - guitar
*Jay Hubbell - drumsDiscography
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1999 - "From Safety To Where" CD (Old Glory)
*2000 - "Mapping" 7" EP (Old Glory)
*2002 - "Irreversible Trend" CD (Radical)
*2004 - "Interference" CD (Unreleased)External links
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:uduw6j2271l0 From Safety To Where] at
Allmusic
* [http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Ffromsafetytowhere.html at Epitonic]
* [http://www.myspace.com/fstw MySpace Profile]
* [http://www.radicalrecords.com/fstw.html Radical Records]
* [http://www.purevolume.com/fromsafetytowhere at Purevolume]
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