Review Fix Exclusive: Bobaflex’s Jymmy Tolland Talks ‘Eloquent Demons ‘ And More

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Review Fix chats with Bobaflex bassist Jymmy Tolland, who discusses the band’s new album, “Eloquent Demons,” as well as their creative process and goals for the future and current tour.

About Bobaflex:

The band was originally signed by Eclipse Records to release their first full length album Primitive Epic. the band went on to TvT Records where they released two albums in Apologize for Nothing (2005) and Tales From Dirt Town (2007). label went bankrupt in 2009.

The band decided to go the independent route and started their own label, BFX Records in 2010 in order to control their own destiny. They released an EP in 2010 called Chemical Valley. With the exception of a re-recorded version of 2007’s Home, all the songs on the EP would become part of their full release in 2011 Hell In My Heart which featured 16 songs and their top selling single to date Bury Me With My Guns On and their very popular cover of Sound Of Silence (Simon-Garfunkel).  Hell In My Heart was followed in 2013 with Charlatan’s Web which included the single I’m Glad You’re Dead their most successful song at radio in their history.

Review Fix: For those who have never heard you, what makes you guys unique?

Jymmy Tolland: The most obvious thing is that 4 of us sing. We try to build vocals like most people layer guitars. Its a rare thing, having so many vocalists, especially live. Its a thing I’m very proud of.

Review Fix: Where are you are a band right now? What are your goals?

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Tolland: Things are always changing and growing. We’re still relatively underground so any path we jump on to grow is something we’re going to go for. We just signed with Thermal Entertainment and since then our sales and radio play have jumped. Now we just need to kick it up on tour to really take advantage of that.

Review Fix: What makes this album different for you guys?

Tolland: Many of the songs are longer than we were writing a few years back. I don’t know if its a subconscious rebellion against the old school “3:30 or nothing” thing thats been the law for the last decade or what but a ton of rock ‘n’ roll bands are really letting their songs breath more these days. This really let’s us tell a story the way we want to tell it without constraints.

Review Fix: What’s the song you’re most proud of with this one?

Tolland: For selfish reasons – Say What You Will. That’s the first song I really took the lead in writing on. I built almost the whole structure and  guitar arrangement in my room. Haha

Or Real Sadness. That was a group effort about a real gruesome story Tommy told us about a childhood friend of his. We all kind of wrote it on autopilot. It was a weird kinda spiritual process that only took like an hour before we finished the song.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Tolland: Keep pushing. We’re in a better position financially than before so opportunities are really popping up for us now. We’ve been busting our asses for a while now so we’re 100â„… ready to bite when someone dangles the  prize in front of us.

Review Fix: Anything you’d like to add?

Tolland: Come out to a show and buy our new album, ELOQUENT DEMONS! We’ll be on tour until 10/1 across the whole country. Rock n Roll.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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