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After the band's fourth release, Welcome to the Hiawatha Inn, The Great Crusades recorded their fifth full-length Four Thirty, a dark and gritty effort that will be released by Innocent Words Records in the U.S. and Canada on August 22, 2006.

Four Thirty personifies The Great Crusades by infusing their trademark determined raw energy into a collection of tracks that winds listeners through the depths of Chicago, New Orleans and other cities with the stories theyve created.

The bands goal for Four Thirty was to create the warmest reflection of their ability while harnessing their raucous energy. The outcome reveals boisterous, yet well-balanced vocals and colorful harmonies coupled with guitar playing reminiscent of rock and rolls storied past. And while all this is happening, the driving drums and bass hold the band on a course somewhere between the shoulder of the road and its median, but by no means strictly along the dotted line