First off, where’d the “.” go in PTM’s name? I’m certain it caused all sorts of confusion, but that shit was badass!
We were approached by Atlantic Records about seven or eight months ago and as of a couple of days ago have made a decision to join their family, and let them into ours. This decision was not made based on one or two talks, or without other labels contacting us, but based on history of the label and the history of our band
On Atlantic they join fellow former Equal Vision Records band Circa Survive who’s third record and debut major release, Blue Sky Noise, will be released on 420. Well Portugal. The Man wasn’t totally on EVR. I believe it was somewhat of a distribution deal for their own imprint, Approaching AIRballoons. I’m curious to see how that will play out now. It’s certainly been a while since Swan Song Records.
March 2nd, 2010 P.TM released their final EVR record, American Ghetto. Portugal. The Man’s last 3 records were put out on Equal Vision (2008’s Censored Colors, 2009’s The Satanic Satanist). Their Atlantic debut will be their sixth full-length record.
Their debut, Waiter: “You Vultures! (Fearless Records) was my favorite record of 2006 and I’ve admired nearly everything about them ever since. They’ve consistently released a delicious album a year (not to mention the bunch of EPs sprinkled in) ever since.
We are people. We are people that happen to love music, we happen to live, eat, sleep, think and love within this bubble of music. Going into these talks we made it perfectly clear, painfully clear, that we love what we do. We live for it. No amount of money could change this band… to be fair to that statement, we already do this on our own and have done it for sometime now. Don’t expect to hear from our mouths things like paying our dues, or working towards this moment. No mention of eating poorly or sleeping on hardwood floors. That is what we do for music. We did not go through all that because we thought one day we would hit our payday, we did it because we love what we do. This will not change… It is who we are. We walked into this as skeptical as anyone would be.
quotes yoinked from John Gourley’s blog on >http://portugaltheman.com/news/dear-family-we-love-you/
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