Workload
After an entire year of some of the most calculated, introspective, and ultimately rewarding moments of my entire life, I find myself playing the humble role of your hype man.
Sunday (we clearly opted out of the "day-of-rest") October 6, 2013, we begun recording our first full length record. This is the point where I tell you all what you already know, but pretend it is somehow unique to our circumstances. I'll tell you that this is the best music we've ever written (I've yet to meet a band that thinks their newest release is shit.) I'll tell you that we've literally played until our fingers bled (thanks, Bryan Adams), or that we've fallen asleep with a pen in our hands and our heads in an empty sheet of paper more times than I can accurately recollect. But, oh savvy and wise fans of ours, I'm certain you know this already. Any Kickstarter campaign that has drifted through your newsfeed will likely have beat my cliches to the punch. So what do I have to offer you? Well, to be real, nothing.
We are a band comprised of musicians. We exist to give you music. In an industry flooded with sensory distractions, it becomes incredibly easy to lose sight of this. A 'get stoked' video blog here, an internet meme there ... soon you fall down the rabbit hole of endless contentious social media statuses asking your fans to voice their opinion, all the while, just secretly hoping their "like" will acknowledge that you really exist. I suppose, in my roundabout and esoteric sort of way, what I'm trying to say is Thank You. Thank you for being patient with us while we've been silent to you. When we got home from our 2012 Summer tour with Brighter Brightest, we knew we needed to create a record. More importantly, we knew we needed to shut out everything in order to do it. What most bands don't make visible is the fact that we all straddle two heartbreakingly opposing worlds. In world one, we tour as much as we want, post pictures and videos of our daily life, keep you up to date on new events, photos, album reviews etc., and let you know that we truly exist as a band because we have something to say and selfishly (as all bands should) think the world would be a better place with our opinion in the mix. In world two, we argue over 1 beat-per-minute in the chorus of a song and call an entire year of our life "Pre-Production."
Frankly, since getting home from tour until now, we made the choice to forget about world one. This has come at the cost of keeping all of you out-of-the-loop. In our opinion, the most disingenuous thing we could have done was to expect you to pretend that our tweets were as relevant as the songs on your iPod. Again, we are a band comprised of musicians. We exist to give you music. This is the promise underlying everything that we do.
At a particularly strange point of my life this past year I read an enormous German book by an equally enormous German philosopher. Somewhere in the midst of 700+ pages that I've almost completely forgotten, he makes the point that even silence communicates. In the moments we refuse to say anything, we are still, evidently, 'saying' something. In some way, I hope our year of silence can mean this to you.
What a lame update this would be if I ended it here. You've been patient and deserve some news -- let me be your CBC.
1) We've started recording in our Hometown. Quinn Cyrankiewicz is engineering and we are working in multiple studios.
2) We've brought on Daniel Carriere (Ten Second Epic/Daniel and The Impending Doom) to be our Producer. After touring with Dan last spring, we knew it was the right choice for us. We used to wake up our parents blasting his band's records in our houses, and now he wakes up Sandy's dogs blasting our demo's in his. It's a win-win. 3) We've applied for tens of thousands of dollars of grant money to help us do with this record what we've planned to do all along ... make it sound EXACTLY as we want it to and then tour until our van dies. 4) We're photo/video documenting this entire process. We want you to be a part of the entire thing. With that, I inevitably have to say goodbye ... partly because I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't, but mostly because we're in the studio early tomorrow and it's 2am. All our love and respect,
THE RED THREAT
* We want to massively acknowledge the help of artists who use their craft to help us tell our story, in this case, two amazingly talented photographers, Tyler Frith and Nicole Beaune.
http://www.frithphotography.com
http://www.nicolebeaune.com/contact.html
