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Members: Jessy Ribordy (vocals), Jeremy Miller (bass), Josh Shroy (drums)
For fans of: Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan, Radiohead, Thousand Foot Krutch
Label: BEC Recordings

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Falling Up have grown accustomed to lofty expectations. After all, their debut LP Crashings exploded on impact, landing numerous chart-topping Rock and CHR singles (including R&R Rock song of the year) and selling over 100,000 copies. The bar was immediately set at a height few could aspire to, and fewer still could eclipse. Yet, they followed with 2005's Dawn Escapes, a record that not only achieved similar accolades, but demonstrated that the band had grown exponentially, and that frontman Jessy Ribordy was a multi-faceted songwriter, lyricist and frontman—a true champion of his craft. The sophomore release was greeted with rave reviews, established the band as a career outfit, and propelled their already-high standard into the stratosphere. Yet, on the eve of their thrid LP, Captiva, Ribordy has set his crosshairs on a new vision, one no less lofty, yet even more vital than anything he has accomplished previously:

"Through the process of creating this record we came to realize all of this—the songs, the band—is about God using us inside my weakness. Over last couple of years we have experienced new challenges and trying experiences, and we began to question how God would use me in the midst of all of it. Then we realized his grace is so much larger than we can comprehend. It's vast. And in knowing this we learned that he can use us in the middle of our weakness, that it's less about what we are doing and more about what he is doing. If we can communicate this through what we do, and if people can grab ahold of this concept, it will mean so much more to us than any other accomplishment."

Captiva is a three-dimensional, dynamic exercise in melodic heavy rock with emotion like you have never felt from Falling Up. Whereas their previous material excelled in the punchy, pop-rock formula without pulling punches, these new songs capture the strengths of their first two records while introducing a deeper, more profound element to the music. Ribordy explains the expansion of their sound:

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