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The unclassifiable quality of The Already Proud, and their latest album, Even Angels Fall, did not come easy. Heavy rock and electronic indie, acoustic songs and punk songs, and catchy choruses with allusions for the well-read are all pieces of the one complete sound that The Already Proud has perfected in the year it took to make their new album. They have always had their own unique style since they assembled in 1999 in the suburbs that lie between the strange musical triangle of Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth. Emerging from the influence of West Coast new school punk rock and late nineties post-grunge alternative, the group created their own brand of what was shortly after labeled “pop-punk” by radio hungry record labels such as Drive – Thru Records. The Already Proud’s first release, The Best Looking Kids In School, combined melodic and fast punk music with serious and mature themes – something markedly absent in many of their peer’s concurrent releases. The Best Looking ...