duction, but also a ninja at bringing the best out of people.
though. We’re competing with bands who the audience can identify with. With that said, our audiences have been so supportive.
SM: Let’s circle back to the beginning of your process in making the latest record.
AP: It started with just getting the songs together. I think we did a lot of that individually, just have something to give the guys. For example, I came up with a riff for what became the first song on the album and I took it to Andy and we worked out a chorus. He took over lyrics for that song. It changes. There’s one tune where I kind of did everything for it – the Megan Nash tune. I put together lyrics and chord progres- sions but then everyone else laid so much on top of it. From there it was really ‘Ok, what do we want to do from here? How big do we want to make this? Talking about radio track- ers,
publicists...After we had all that mapped out we started researching different producers.
AD: Also coming to the decision of what the focus of the album was going to be. Using acoustic instruments. Wood- winds. That was going to be our guide. I think we trailblazed hurting people’s feelings on the way through. We brought in a percussionist producer. That was another conversation - deciding we don’t want drums, we want this guy who is a pro at Latin percussion. He was great - he was the ninja on pro-
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AP He was really good at communicating and making you feel at home. Not sure about that with Christian though. Haha.
(The band erupts with laughter)
CP: There was just that one time…Haha. As a metal head you just always want to “chuggachuggachugga” and then there’s parts where you need to chill out. I didn’t want to chill out. (more laughter). With that said, he really brought so much to the album. He knew Latin rhythms. He knew acoustic instruments. He knew a cajón inside out. He could dissect our rhythms better than he can. Not unlike other bands whose rhythms we’ve heard, they know their origins and where they come from, but we just sort of bastardize them, in a sense. He helped us educate ourselves.
AP: He was good in the sense that he took the push and pull from us too. We weren’t just going to stay within one genre.
AD: He wanted us to be traditional.
AP: He wanted to, but he was good about it. In the end he was like “Ok, this is cool.” Something that was super helpful too was that we had a five-day pre-production rehearsal with him before we started recording. It helped with being really efficient in the studio, but we also got to know him and he got to know our personalities really well.
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