It’s interesting that the more we collectively accept the death of the LP, and our culture wades further and further into the shallows of pop music, that same group of music zealots are hungrily collecting vinyl. “It’s a different experience in music, as a very enthusiastic and vocal minority of music lovers will attest to. “I suppose we are of an age in this band wherein we were truly weaned on LPs – the storyline that is 10 to 12 songs,” he says. Even with other avenues open, they continually find themselves returning to the tradition of album making. Traditional frameworks for presentation just aren’t as important or relevant anymore.”įor Boyd and his bandmates, the LP format is one that they were raised on, and one they’ll remain devoted to for as long as they’re able to. “That’s what’s so fun about where we are in music today. “ Trust Fall (Side B) could happen at any time,” he says. We felt so much good energy with it that when we came home from tour to write Side B, we felt that the next thing we put out needed to be really special – and longer than four songs.” It’s here that the imaginatively-titled 8 first began to take shape although, Boyd stresses, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve abandoned their original concept entirely. The results were a lot of fun, and the energy felt new again – which, for any creative collective, is tantamount to success. “It was for us to just get back in a room and see what happened.
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