Listen to “Psycho” from Brent’s new album
— essentially the first new song
by the band since breaking up.
Brent says this is definitely a
return to pop music. “It’s not a
Christian record. The last song on
the record, “Without You,” could
be vaguely imagined as such, but
it is a pop record. I’m not re-inventing the wheel here. I’m admittedly picking up musically where
I left off, plus I learned how to use
an arpeggiator (a way of providing synth players with an easy way
of playing complex synth parts
via simple chords). It’s actually a
more upbeat record than any other I have made. I hope it’s rather
timeless-sounding, but it’s a record that people familiar with my
previous work will be comfortable
with.”
Advancements in technology
New Jersey Stag e
inspired him to start recording
again. Once he realized that he
could make music that equaled
his best work while sitting on his
living room floor, the economics started to make sense for him.
“After I made my last record, I
started to produce other people’s
records, which is something I always had felt called to do, and it
was a real living, and I was good
at it. It didn’t make any financial
sense to keep making my own
records — they never made any
money, and it was a very expensive and self-indulgent thing
to do. And I got inspired again
working in Logic, and things just
started to flow. I don’t know why
it comes, and I don’t know why it
goes away, and I don’t know why
it comes back.”
September 2014
pg 68