Fear­less Fly­ers to Re­lease a New EP or Al­bum 

MISHAWAKA--Fear­less Fly­ers, a band fea­tur­ing Nate Smith on drums, Cory Wong on his sig­na­ture gui­tar, Mark Let­tieri on bari­tone gui­tar and Joe Dart on bass, re­leased new sin­gles every week dur­ing the month of Feb­ru­ary, pre­mier­ing on YouTube on Wednes­days and on ma­jor mu­sic plat­forms on Thurs­days. The ques­tion most fans of this band are ask­ing is whether these four sin­gles are con­tribut­ing to their third ex­tended play (EP) or to their sec­ond stu­dio al­bum.  

The dif­fer­ence be­tween an EP and an al­bum is the length. An EP will usu­ally be about six songs long with a run time any­where from fif­teen to thirty min­utes, but an al­bum will be more con­tent with 10 or more songs and a run time ex­ceed­ing thirty min­utes.  

While fans are await­ing these an­swers, they can en­joy the sin­gles in the mean­time. Be­low are sum­maries of the re­cent ad­di­tions to the Fear­less Fly­ers’ reper­toire. 

“Pa­trol Ac­ro­ba­tique” - This starts off with seven hits then goes right into a funky groove and stays there for the song. The open hi hats near the mid­dle of the piece open the groove more. It works like a fugue where each in­stru­ment plays a dif­fer­ent part of the groove to make a co­he­sive piece.  

“Run­ning Man” - This has a surf rock vibe with the bari­tone gui­tar lead­ing the riff. The drums play this tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cult groove while the gui­tar plays hits over it. There is an ex­tended solo por­tion for the gui­tar to play some blues licks, which was a lit­tle un­ex­pected based on the groove set up from the be­gin­ning. 

“Three Basses” - This song has an in­stru­men­ta­tion that only seems to come around every 50 years or so. That is an ex­ag­ger­a­tion, but it is rare. There are three basses and one drum­mer. Each bass is play­ing a unique part of the groove. The bass player is play­ing the bass line. The bari­tone gui­tar player is play­ing the har­mon­ics on his bass on the top of the groove. And the gui­tar player is play­ing the slap por­tion of the groove.  

“Reel­in’ in the Years” - This is a cover of a Steely Dan song. Many of the Fear­less Fly­ers songs are cov­ers of the band mem­bers’ own song, but this time it is Steely Dan. They have cov­ered Ste­vie Won­der and El­ton John as well. 

I would love it to be a new al­bum, but even if it is only an EP, there are still two more songs to look for­ward to!