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Curtains For You, the Seattle, WA, based vintage-pop/indie rock band released their full-length debut, Heaven's Waiting, in the Spring of 2007 to an excited and packed house at Easy Street Records in West Seattle. Heaven's Waiting was quickly added to rotation on KEXP 90.3, Seattle's Internationally famous independent radio station. Subsequently, Curtains For You performed live on-the-air on the August 25th broadcast of KEXP's local program, Audioasis, and has been playing to increasingly receptive audiences ever since. Their first effort, Heaven's Waiting, conveys woebegone lyrical themes through the unlikely medium of vaudevillian jubilance and melodious brit-pop. Curtains For You team together to create buoyant arrangements of songs crafted by the songwriters Matthew Gervais (lead vocals/guitar/banjo/mellotron) and Peter Fedofsky (piano/vocals/accordion/organ). The Album is a collection of intricate songs accented by trombone, saxophone, euphonium, clarinet, banjo, accordion, violin and organ while retaining a roots rock 'n roll foundation of guitar, drums, piano and bass. All of the instrumentation is performed by Curtains For You, who produced and recorded the entire album in their bedrooms. Intricate melodic composition compliments themes derived from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych in Matthew Gervais's 1930's inspired title track Heaven's Waiting. The result is a writing style that places serious subject matter into an unlikely however, effective musical context, creating a sound that evokes levity while expounding intimate lyrical themes. The members of Curtains For You carefully selected the songs from the album Heaven's Waiting from a wealth of unreleased material that had been written by Peter Fedofsky and Matt Gervais to create a record with a sense of continuity and an implied narrative. All of these themes team together with a buoyant energy in any Curtains For You stage performance. The band has already begun work on their follow-up LP, which is scheduled to be released by next Spring.