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Hometown favorites: This Parachute floats upward
Arguably the most successful ensemble to break out of Charlottesville since Dave Matthews Band, Parachute– aka the group formerly known as Sparky's Flaw– returns home with friends in high places, international tours under their belt, and a sophomore album released with enough buzz and fanfare to hint at a future as mainstream pop stars.
Their transformation from high school kids making music in the basement to the love-song crooning stars they are today– starring in Nivea commercials, touring in Europe with Kelly Clarkson– wasn't an easy road, but it was one they took to like pros, according to lead singer Will Anderson. Long gone are the days where the guys flew to L.A. to record their debut album, rushing back on Monday morning for classes at UVA, but the link to Charlottesville– and to each other– remains strong.
"We're just the same guys, with the same friendship," Anderson says. "Not much has changed since we were in high school in terms of our relationship with each other. It keeps you grounded, it keeps you accountable."
The work the five C'ville boys have poured into their music hasn't been easy, and while Anderson understands the opportunity that comes from befriending Taylor Swift or the guys from Plain White T's, he also says there are many miles to go before Parachute feels fulfilled.
"A lot of bands become so unaware of themselves that they think they're doing the best they can do– but we always have the sense that we have a lot more to prove," he says. "There's room to improve in our songwriting, performance, musicianship, and that fear of peaking helps us. It's a terrifying prospect that we might not get better."
Anderson began writing the band's second album– a sultry, sexy pop package– in small spurts while touring Europe with Clarkson. Most song lyrics just came to him, while the experience of playing big arena shows helped immerse him in a sound he knew Parachute wanted to capture in the studio. And while the spark might have bitten him while overseas, Anderson wrote many of the album's nine tracks at home in Charlottesville, leading him to incorporate a nostalgic, reflective tone reminiscent of Maroon 5. Many of the tracks on The Way It Was refer to just that– how things used to be for them in Charlottesville, and why those memories will never fade.
White Dress: "I was with a friend of mine and she asked, 'What's the first single going to be?' She was wearing a white dress, so I said, 'Oh, it's called White Dress'. It was like, "Dangit, now I've got to write a song about a white dress…" I started it at Dave Matthew's studio and it took awhile to figure out what I was going to do with it. It clicked in San Diego."
You and Me: "This was the first song I wrote for the record. It started out as two different songs– one was the music, one was the lyrics. The lyrics were the general Bonnie-and-Clyde, you-and-me-against-the-world theme; and it just worked out fitting with the music perfectly."
Something to Believe In: "This was one of the first songs I ever wrote, and it laid dormant until our bass player, Alex, kept calling me, saying we had to play it. I changed it around because I knew I wanted a gospel sound to it. A couple of our friends in L.A. rounded up some of their friends to help with it, and we ran with it from there."
Forever and Always: I was in Frankfurt, Germany, and, I hate when people say this, but it hit me in a flash. I was lying in bed and the whole thing just came to me. I sat up, got a guitar, and I still have the recording of it from that night."
What I Know: "I was in Russia, visiting a friend in St. Petersburg, and I had never been there, didn't speak the language, couldn't even come close to reading their writing, and felt more isolated, culturally speaking, than I had ever been in my life. I spent a lot of time in my hotel room and wrote one song in a week. I wasn't breaking up with anyone at that point, but I remembered that feeling– along with that weird cultural intersection of Russia."
American Secrets: "I needed one really, really personal song on the record. This was the last song I wrote for the album, and it was about growing up in Charlottesville. We recorded the first section of it and went on to tour, so we had the song arranged for six months, and I just couldn't finish it. I was talking to one of my best friends, a poet at Columbia University, and complaining that I couldn't finish the song and how it was so unfair that she's so good at poetry. I said one of the song's lines to her, and she said, 'That's it, go'– and I finished it in 30 minutes that night."
Kiss Me Slowly: "We wrote that originally for another artist. We were pitching it, and I realized that parachute wanted a song like that– we call them "ladykiller" songs– so I called them and said, 'Don't give it away!'"
Halfway: "We started recording it and hated it, it just wasn't clicking. It was about someone I had met recently, someone who played me, and I was angry at the time and needed a nasty song."
Philadelphia: "This wasn't anything specific I had experienced, but it turned out to be an epic song. Once we started playing it, we realized it was going to be the album closer. I wrote it in Philly and in C'ville and just put myself in someone else's shoes, to figure out what they would feel like in this situation. It turned into a seven and a half minute epic. We riffed off Bruce Springsteen a little bit, and I wrote him a letter to say, 'We're not ripping you off.' I don't even know if he got it, but it was the perfect song to end the record on."
Parachute kicks off their US tour Saturday, June 4, at the Jefferson Theater. Schuyler Fisk and Harper Blynn open. Doors open at 7pm, and tickets are $16 in advance, $18 at the door. Or, purchase The Way It Was at Charlottesville or Richmond's Plan 9 and receive one free ticket to the show!Read more on: jefferson theaterparachutewill anderson


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The Bank for International Settlements' 84th annual report should give Congress and Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen a good prodding. The Switzerland-based bank for the world's central banks suggests that "monetary policy is testing its outer limits," and that advanced economies, including the U.S., need "balance sheet repair and structural reform."
Investors should also take note, as the run-up in U.S. stocks has been driven by central bank accommodation using low interest rates. Although near-zero rates are no longer effective in rallying the economy, they have sent investors into equities. "Obviously," the report concludes, "market participants are pricing in hardly any risks … a powerful and pervasive search for yield has gathered, and credit spreads have narrowed."
All in all, the report is not good news, especially in light of the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting, during which policy makers reduced the Fed's forecast for GDP growth. And that was before last week's dismal gross domestic product report, which showed a contraction of 2.9%, steeper than an earlier reading of minus 1%.
The two major challenges the report identifies are to improve the economy structurally by raising productivity, and also to put in policy frameworks to more systematically address the financial cycle. Currently, monetary easing happens too quickly during busts, and governments need to find ways to make the policy counteract the financial cycle so it does not exacerbate existing problems or add new ones (such as expansionary monetary policy in recessions, encouraging higher debt levels).
Perhaps due to central bank expansion, the real global economic recovery has been weak, with growth driven by emerging-market economies. While growth is up, it is not on pace to fully make up lost ground. Much of the expansion has been financed by debt, as debt-to-GDP ratios in advanced economies have grown higher. Both public and private debt have grown.
The BIS concludes that the most work is needed in fiscal policy, not only in bringing deficits down, but also in adjusting measurement techniques to better forecast the fiscal picture. This conclusion is shared by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which has repeatedly warned of deficits that are forecast to diminish in the short term but rise over the next decade.
In April, the CBO wrote: "Between 2015 and 2024, annual budget shortfalls are projected to rise substantially — from a low of $469 billion in 2015 to about $1 trillion from 2022 through 2024 — mainly because of the aging population, rising health-care costs, an expansion of federal subsidies for health insurance, and growing interest payments on federal debt." America needs to help the economy by getting its fiscal house in order, rather than keeping interest rates at rock-bottom levels.
The report suggests that governments should not only try to reduce budget deficits but also attempt to encourage private-sector finance of infrastructure projects. That can be done by reducing regulations that prevent investment in infrastructure, such as President Obama's lack of approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Private-sector investment in federally funded projects is limited, even though roads and bridges would benefit from private dollars.
A stronger real economic recovery would also reduce dangerous overreliance on monetary policy. One of the consequences of this accommodative monetary policy has been an exuberant financial market and a weak real recovery, as monetary policy has failed to encourage investment. Central banks should wind down expansionary monetary policy without delay.
In her press conference on June 18, Chairwoman Yellen did not acknowledge that loose monetary policy will eventually lead to inflation. In response to a question from the Economist's Greg Ip on increasing inflation, she said: "Let me start by saying that inflation continues to run well below our objective, and we're still some ways away from maximum employment. And for the moment, I don't see any trade-off whatsoever in achieving our two objectives. They both call for the same policy — namely, a highly accommodative monetary policy."
Although elsewhere in the press conference Yellen emphasized the uncertainty that lies ahead, she did not seem to see that the Fed's policies are increasingly unproductive.
The Fed reduced its 2014 growth forecast by seven tenths of a percentage point — from a range of 2.8 to 3.0% to 2.1 to 2.3%. With the new first-quarter GDP report, the Fed will have to lower its growth forecast even further.
What was surprising is that the Fed left its unemployment rate forecast practically unchanged, around 6.2% for 2014. With downgraded economic growth, the only way that unemployment can stay the same is for more people to leave the labor force. The labor force participation rate, now at 62.8%, levels seen in 1978, may well decline further.
Congress needs to take the burden off Chairwoman Yellen and move above partisan politics to enact some sensible policies. Members are in broad agreement that corporate tax rates need to be reduced from 35% to the OECD average of 24%; that more visas are needed for highly skilled immigrants, especially those who want to create jobs; and that regulations need to be streamlined. Bipartisan legislation along those lines has been crafted, but has not been brought to a vote. That needs to change.
With a decline in after-tax corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments of 13%, the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2008, the stock market might indeed be suffering from a little exuberance. Right now, there is nowhere else for investors to go. But the BIS report reminds us that a little care might be in order.
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