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To steal a line from that old sage Bob Dylan, He not busy being born is busy dying. One listen to the new, third album from A Static Lullaby, and it's clear the Chino Hills, California, quintet have spent the past year absorbed in that idea. They've survived internal turmoil, the loss of old friends, and the harsh realities of life on a major label; and now, having emerged from that period quite literally a new band, ASL unleash the strongest, fiercest set of songs in their arsenal. In other words, you'd better believe there's a reason A Static Lullaby is self-titled. "I remember sitting down to listen to these new songs for the first time and thinking, Yeah, this is what I believe the band should be; this is what it should sound like", remembers singer Joe Brown, who co-founded ASL in 2001 with singer/guitarist Dan Arnold. "And so when I talk about why we made this record self-titled, it?s like, yeah, this band?s been through some trouble in terms of past relatio...