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The first week of 2012 in review: already been sick, decided against making any resolutions, began plotting gbo’s next tour, and had the honor of being named one of the best new bands in Boston for 2012 by the Boston Phoenix (our hometown’s arts, music, and entertainment newspaper). The article alludes to some of our plans for the year (as I just did in the previous sentence) but I’d like to highlight that we’ll have a new album out by the time our northeast corner of the U.S. starts to warm up. You can download a pre-release of the song “Vanished” before the album comes out via the Class of 2012 bandcamp comp.
Attn NY’ers: we’ll see you at the Cake Shop on Saturday night.
Improvised sometime during 2011.
Look what we found! A point-of-view video of some mountain bike action featuring our song, The Lodge. It can be pretty hypnotizing if you let it. Watch for some over-the-bars action at the two minute mark.
You may have seen the skate vid we posted recently. Is this a trend? There must be be more of these floating around out there on the internet. If you find any let us know. Specifically, I’m hoping we’re the soundtrack to a backflip tailwhip—my favorite bike stunt ever.
So we were googling ourselves—no, not like that—and happened upon this cool skate video featuring our tune Sunrising in the back half of the vid. Pretty cool.
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I once met a poet who kept a drawer full of discarded lines. She would, when she was stuck on a new idea, reach in the drawer and grab an old idea, convinced that her discarded dead ends weren’t dead ends at all, but simply hadn’t yet discovered their destinations. She could only write in the morning. Some poets write all the time.
I know an architect who paints unstructured color fields for pleasure at night in order to shed the rigidity of his business during the day. He lies on his belly when he paints. Some painters use an easel.
A famous photographer would study his subject from all angles, crouching around it for tens of minutes or more in an attempt to understand the thing as fully as he could before finding the perfect view from which to capture it. Then he would capture it. But just once. Some photographers will shoot and shoot and shoot.
The creative process has always been an interesting topic for me, often more so than the actual creations that result. That we do similar things in dissimilar ways is an obvious thought as trite as cat-skinning and folks’ strokes. Nevertheless, every time I meet an artist I want to know how she does it, so I can drop new ideas in my drawers, waiting for the next time I’m stuck.
So thanks to Berklee PULSE for having us be a part of this. Can’t wait.
You may be aware that we’re going to be a part of Deep Heaven Now 4, and we’re curious who you’re looking forward to catching this weekend. There are some obvious choices, like December Sound and Endless Wave and Major Stars and The Vandelles and Static of the Gods, but you’ve also got some stellar and potentially less obvious choices like The New Highway Hymnal and Sand Reckoner and our very own SUNRAM. You know what? Nevermind. Just see all the bands on both days and that’ll be that.
Great news! We are making our sold-out, tour-only tape available again! It contains all new songs and jams! The first batch quickly sold out on tour, so we have created another short run of purple tapes available for sale on Bandcamp and as a free download. Go check it out!
In addition, it’s been a year since the release of our debut record, The Only Light On, and what a year it’s been! What better time than now to announce that we are going back into the studio to start work on Record #2!
Over the last year, we’ve played with a ton of great bands, gone on tour, met amazing people and been continuously inspired and energized by the whole experience. We are excited about the new batch of songs and can’t wait to share them with you.
We appreciate all the love and support we’ve gotten from you guys. Thank you! Now go grab yourselves some new tunes!
