Label: Jade Tree
Reissued 2018, Originally released 1999
“The Only Reason I Feel” Secure is the second EP by PEDRO THE LION. Originally released as a 5 track EP in 1999 on Made In Mexico Records, it was re-issued by Jade Tree records in 2001 with 3 bonus tracks which originally constituted the bands’s first single – and appear only on the Jade Tree reissue. After a shifting lineup, PEDRO THE LION eventually became a one-man outfit. That man is DAVID BAZAN. A Seattle native, BAZAN cut his teeth playing in hardcore bands before forming PEDRO in 1995, taking the band's name from a character he made up for a possible children's book. Under the moniker of PEDRO THE LION, BAZAN creates melodic pop in the vein of BEDHEAD, HAYDEN, and SEBADOH, with a lyrical focus on relationships -- with both other people and God. In early 2006, BAZAN retired the PEDRO moniker to continue on with solo work under his own name. In December of 2017 BAZAN announced that PEDRO THE LION be reunited to make a new album and tour the world in 2018.
Track listing:
- Criticism as Inspiration
- I Am Always the One Who Calls
- Invention
- Letter From a Concerned Follower
- Be Thou My Vision
- Big Trucks
- Diamond Ring
- Invention