Tennessee based six-piece The Young Republic will release their second album "Balletesque" through End Of The Road Records on 12 October 2009. The record, inspired by the turbulent times The Young Republic faced in late 2008, pushes the band's jazz and classical training and original folk leanings towards a darker and more cinematic sound. The resulting 12 tracks expand on the band's earlier influences of John Lennon, Belle & Sebastian and Bob Dylan to include newer inspirations from The Raconteurs, Pixies and Arcade Fire."Balletesque" was further enhanced by the mixing talents of Stuart Sikes who's previous work includes White Stripes, Cat Power, Modest Mouse and Loretta Lynn.

When the band relocated to Tennessee in 2008 to begin their first proper album recording session on the family estate of frontman Julian Saporiti all seemed well, however the shock departure of their original drummer later in that year cast a dark cloud over the band. Where others may have faltered The Young Republic focused harder than ever before on the music that brought them together during their formation at Berklee College of Music in Boston. New drummer Logan Linning soon completed the band's line-up once more.

The difficult period in 2008 fuelled and redirected Saporiti's writing, often returning from hiking trips across Sky Mountain Tennessee with the tracks that have become "Balletesque". The album's cast of salesmen, bootleggers, preachers, outlaws and other misfits appear in the rich tales of the American mind-set past and present, threaded together with lyrical themes of betrayal and loss. Both things The Young Republic have experienced as well as, during the current economic crisis, America and the world itself.