our music cohesive and build our sound to the point it has defining hallmarks that incorporate all of our respective musical strengths . There are things I ’ ve listened to that I want to incorporate into our music that I ’ ll bring to Noah and Chris , and they ’ ll tell me , “ That ’ s not us .” We do have some genre limits , but at the end of the day , this is our music , and we try to be as open as possible when incorporating the musical elements that we love into it .
Benjamin : Your first release as The Faux Paws was The Hurricane EP in 2019 . How did that project come to be , and what was the artistic statement that you wanted to make with that record ?
Andrew : There ’ s a bit of a story there . We were all in North Carolina for an event . We were supposed to play a festival , and there was a hurricane that shut down most of the state . We had just flown down to western North Carolina near Charlotte , but the whole festival got really effected by the hurricane , because it was closer to the coast . We didn ’ t really have a gig anymore , so we were trying to figure out what to do . Chris called a friend of his in Nashville who had a little project studio . We decided that we wanted to take advantage of our time down south to make a project . We jumped in the car , we drove to Nashville , and we recorded four songs . It was very spontaneous . We just got in front of the microphones and played the songs a couple of times . It came together very well . It was a big moment of growth for the band , too , because we realized that we could sit down and make quality projects without agonizing too much about the process . It was just natural .
Benjamin : That ’ s amazing that it came about in such a short time . How long did it take to put your new self-titled LP The Faux Paws together ?
Andrew : It was more of a conventional process and long-term effort for that . For the majority of the sessions for that album , we were all together in the studio for about a week .
Noah : We did the original week-long session right before COVID-19 hit , and we thought that everything was taken care of and the rest of the additional musicians that would play on the record would just fall into place . It ended up being a little more complicated than that .
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Andrew : For our bass tracks , we worked with a wonderful bassist named Zoe out in British Columbia , Canada . We traded files back and forth with her on Zoom ®.
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