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  The Envy Corps - Story Problem
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The Envy Corps are Luke Pettipoole (vox / gtr / piano), David Yoshimura (bass), Scott Yoshimura (drums) and Brandon Darner (gtr). Founded in 2001 by Pettipoole and David Yoshimura in the Midwestern town of Ames, Iowa, various personnel changes eventually led to the group that stands before you now, with David's brother Scott joining the fold on drums and finally the addition of Brandon Darner).

Assembling what little equipment they had, The Envy Corps got creative, recording piano in the servant's quarters of a rural farmstead and sneaking into the local church to track drums in a suitably reverberative sanctuary. The songs that resulted - those of a self-proclaimed "band from Iowa that sounds like they're from Missouri," a description that will make perfect sense when you hear the EP - reached swiftly-smitten ears and led to the band releasing their debut US EP, I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To, in spring 2006. A clutch of opening dates with The Killers in the Midwest resulted in the autumn, in turn bringing The Envy Corps to the ears of the Vertigo A&R team, who wasted no time in adding the group to the roster they now share with Razorlight, The Rapture and The Killers.

The Envy Corps released The Story Problem EP on March 5 2006. The EP is a delicious taster of what will come from the band in their debut album, which they've self-recorded and will be mixing in the UK in January