People and Things

I know this is another post that is out of the ordinary, I promise this will be the last random post for awhile. But I am so in love with Jack's Mannequin's new album, People and Things that I just had to inform the blogosphere to go get it.

I think it just might be Andrew McMahon's best album. Ever. Out of all the Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin albums, this one is my personal favorite.

For those of you who don't know about Andrew McMahon, he was the lead singer of a band called Something Corporate when he was in high school. They got really big, and had become somewhat of what we call "Teen Idols". But then that band fell through, as one can imagine, many teenagers would become burnt out after touring throughout high school and right out of it. Then he started Jack's Mannequin, a project named after a childhood friend who had leukemia (Spookily foreshadowing). A few months before the release of their debut album, Everything in Transit, Andrew was diagnosed with Leukemia, which was the main influence for his second album, The Glass Passenger. It also caused him to start a foundation to raise money for cancer research called Dear Jack.

Now, I don't know if you can tell, but this man is like my hero. He's a huge inspiration, and though he says in the album trailer that he doesn't see himself as a a fighter, hero or inspiration, I can't think of any other way to describe him. If there is any post that you actually pay attention to on this blog, it should be this one.

Jack's Mannequin is a band that will change your life, and People and Things should go down in history.

"I love this album. For what it says and what it took to get there. It may not be life or death, but it's life."

Go Download: People and Things