MAGNETIC TAPE ZINE
You released your first full length
last year, with no releases I can
track down before this, were you
sitting on a large amount of songs
with a full-length in mind, or did
your plan for how you were going
to release music evolve?
WELL, THEN YOU BETTER DO YOUR RESEARCH
BETTER SONNAYYY. Nah I’m kidding, we took it down,
but we had a four song demo with the secret track at
the end of Stop Breathing called 'Friends', 'American
Spirits' was on it and then two other songs. One of
them was called 'Spiders' and we just re-recorded it for
a Topshelf Recs SXSW split. Everyone asks for that EP
and I’m like “Why? we re-recorded all the songs and
they’re better now”.
We had released ‘Spencer Green’ as a single before
our first longer tour which got the attention of Broken
World and I had kind of known Derrick (ShanholtzerDvorak, of The World Is... and Broken World Media
owner) from Connecticut too. We then released Hell
in the fall as a single, then were just trying to finish
up the record. That was a really strange time for all
of us, I remember. Matt and our bassist at the time,
Christian, were in a million bands, and our drummer
at the time, Chris, was in one other country band that
he was in prior to us, and it eventually got to be too
much for him so he left. But the point is that we sat on
that recor