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We Don’t Want it Safe, We Want it Secret

by To Be A High Powered Executive

RELEASE DATE: 2007-11-06

LABEL: Ropeadope Digital

RADDIG-22

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Their new album titled: We don't want it safe, We want it secret; was recorded over five days this March in Austin, TX. The members of TBAHPE all originally hail from different states across the country, convening in Cleveland and bringing their separate musical influences to the band.

Track Listing

  • 01.  Building the Fort
  • 02.  The Secret of Silent Dreams and Shattered Fucks
  • 03.  They Gaped, They Gasped, They Started
  • 04.  And The Trees Became Chairs
  • 05.  Consumation
  • 06.  The Path
  • 07.  To Morla
  • 08.  The King Has Bled, We Have Slept, and Now we Must Wake 

About the Artist


Formed in November 2004, To Be a High Powered Executive… began its career playing various venues in Cleveland, Ohio.  Originally titled: To Be a High Powered Executive You Need To Be Good At Math, the five Cleveland Institute of Art graduates began as a simple post-rock band. After a four-month hiatus, they reformed as To be a High Powered Executive… an instrumental rock band that found a dream and captured it in its slovenly jowls.


Now, over two and a half years later, their sound has expanded to include songs ranging from three-minute math-pop blasts to ten minute-plus space operas.  Psychedelic games of “find the magical tree-giver without losing the melody” have led the five-piece to their debut LP We Don’t Want it Safe, We Want it Secret.  Their journey continues, but their strength requires the gentle ears of a listener. Come join us…