Astoria

Astoria

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The new album Astoria from Marians Trench will be released on October 23rd, 2015 on Cherrytree / 604 Records/ Interscope. The Vancouver-based quartet's front man Josh Ramsay describes the album as a loose concept record based around the band's love of 1980s fantasy and adventure films. While on the surface that sounds like a lighthearted exercise in millennial nostalgia, Ramsay says the album was actually created under the most challenging personal circumstances he and the band have experienced to date. <br><br>Since their 2006 debut album Fix Me, Marianas Trench have had two Certified Platinum albums in Canada, and Ramsay also received a Grammy nomination in 2013 for co-writing and producing Carly Rae Jepsen's breakthrough smash "Call Me Maybe."