Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice release

2005’s Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice saw the band change their sound yet again, to a style that seemed a more natural follow-up to Old than I Am the Portuguese Blues had been. For this album, Starflyer 59 was cut down to two members: Jason Martin and drummer Frank Lenz. It would be the first studio album since Americana to be recorded without bassist and ideas man Jeff Cloud. Despite having only two band members, the songs on Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice have a full sound. This is largely due to the inclusion of guest string players on many of the album’s tracks. Also in 2005, Starflyer 59 re-issued digitally re-mastered versions of Silver and Gold , with bonus tracks. The re-issue of Silver came with the tracks of the band’s follow-up EP, She’s the Queen . Gold was reissued with the Goodbyes Are Sad 7 inch single and three of the four tracks from the Le Vainqueur EP . Many of these extra tracks, however, had been included on the 2-disc set Easy Come, Easy Go .