The Leftovers – “One The Move” was recorded in Jan. of 2007 at Butch Vig’s Smart Studios in Madison, WI. (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage) Ben Weasel (Screeching Weasel, Riverdales) lends a qualified hand in producing these 13 tracks of pure pop perfection…add a strong punk influence, ala the Ramones, add a bit of Elvis Costello, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and you’re “On The Move”!!!! Give it a spin, It rocks!

* “These guys are for real and this record is nothing short of amazing – one mind-bendingly great song after another as played by a balls-out, kick-ass rock band.” – Ben Weasel (Screeching Weasel, Riverdales)

*”Brilliant songwriting and performances… ” – Larry Livermore (Founder, Lookout Records)

Reviews:
N.B.T.- The Next Big Thing – Lindsay Hutton.
Review link: http://nextbigthing.blogspot.com/
” The Leftovers – On The Move (Rally Records)
A quick google on the name throws up many bands called The Leftovers but this is the three piece from Portland, Maine that we’re dealing with here. Imagine The Smithereens wearing jetpacks and harbouring some Tommy James and The Shondells intent. 13 songs clocking in at just below 29 minutes, looking at them on the cover, you’d never think that three youngsters could kick up such a full-blooded racket. They’ve been abetted in their mission by the aforementioned Mr Weasel and his sequencing has been carried out with precision rock’n'roll action in mind. This is what I expected The Fratellis to sound like according to their press. Superior pop hammered out with a gusto that’s rare in these processed pre-packed, pigeon-holed times. I’m sure that yours truly is well outside their demographic but they’re bloody stuck with me. The sound is as clean as a whistle and that drum propulsion really carries the epic proportions of the “teenage excitement, romance and mystery”. The Leftovers are anything but.”
Review Link:
http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=3197

“Get any punk rocker talking and, sooner or later, you’ll get him reminiscing about the good old days. Could be he talks of 1977, maybe 1982, maybe 1986. Everybody, it seems, in the punk underground lost their heart to a bygone era. Fair enough.

But when The Leftovers start waxing nostalgic on On the Move, they’re not stuck on one of punk’s halcyon heydays, but whip out an uncut love of mid-’90s pop punk. Sure, it was derided by everyone at the time, but The Leftovers’ brand of spiky, buzzy pop-punk anthems show it might not be too much longer before we’re waxing nostalgic about the glory days of 1996. Gearing up guitars just noisy enough to leave your ears ringing without destroying the trio’s innate melodies, The Leftovers drink from the same well of inspiration that used to quench acts such as The Queers, The Riverdales and Chixdiggit. And if that set of influences isn’t exactly the hippest formula to be working from in just about any circle, it’s not going to dampen The Leftovers’ enthusiasm.

Ripping into 13 lightening-speed pop tunes simply for the fun of it, On the Move is a reminder of pop punk’s more innocent days, days before MySpace kids’ fickle interests, underage bloggers and the mall-punk phenomenon derailed its giddy, proud-to-wallow-in-obscurity spirit. It’s something that many of today’s young nippers might not even recognize for what it is. With 13 cuts — and nary a one that sticks around beyond the three-minute mark — that superbly straddle the line between garage dissonance and high-fructose ear candy, The Leftovers play pop-punk like it’s supposed to be: young, loud and poppy. The act’s formula doesn’t vary a bit throughout On the Move, but it doesn’t really need to: singer/bassist Kurt Baker’s tales of single-serving heartbreaks come at listeners with a one-two punch of his deliciously tuneful tenor and harmonies provided by guitarist Andrew Rice, who’s also a master at drenching his rapid-fire progressions in pearls of buzzy distortion. Baker and drummer Adam Woronoff keep tempos just slightly below the speed-freak levels. As the band crashes through its set list, songs like “Run Real Fast,” “She She She” and “Mind Off You” hint that the band’s looked deeper than the overlooked pantheon of ’90s pop-punk, as shades of Beach Boys, Ramones and Big Star melodies seep through the cracks and gum everything together.

These days, every punk band under the sun has an angle, a crazy haircut, a dude who can scream while another dude sings or a fascination with confusing emotional problems with physical injuries. Not so with The Leftovers: On the Move is the sort of straight-up chunk of three-chord pop meant as an escape from all the posturing in the mainstream. Isn’t that what really got you into pop punk in the first place?

- Matt Schild “

Track Listing:

1 Run Real Fast

2 Dance With Me Play

3 She She She

4 Pick And Choose

5 Camel

6 Please Tell Me

7 Lose Your Head

8 Run Away

9 Nothing To Do

10 Mind Off You

11 See You Tonight

12 Up Down Around

13 Gotta Go

Release Notes:

Pressed on CD format and 12” Mixed Color LP (Insub)