Killed or Cured

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Killed or Cured

Studio album by The New Amsterdams

Released

2005 and 2006

Genre

Indie rock
Emo
Acoustic rock

Length

28:04

Label

None

The New Amsterdams chronology

Worse for the Wear
(2003)

Killed or Cured
(2005)

Story Like a Scar
(2006)

Killed or Cured is an album by The New Amsterdams recorded during the break up of The Get Up Kids and released via the internet in part in 2005 and in full in 2006. The first release contained only five songs, "Wears So Thin", "Watch The World Cave In", "Heaven Sent", "Drinking In The Afternoon", and "Strangled By The Thought." The album was available for download for free, including cover art, from the band's website. Killed or Cured is a much darker album than the band's usual fare, due largely to lead singer Matthew Pryor's experiences during the break up of The Get Up Kids. For this reason, Vagrant Records thought it shouldn't be released until after the final Get Up Kids show. The album wound up being shelved permanently. Matthew Pryor wrote "Drinking In The Afternoon" in a hotel in Japan while on the Guilt Show tour. The next day he quit The Get Up Kids. The band have announced a new release of Killed or Cured, containing the original album and a reworked album on separate discs. According to the band's Myspace page this will be released on the 10th April 2007.