Let’s jump ahead to Blowout. What’s the significance of the name?
Alex: Blowout: a victory for the underdog, a tire that’s blown, a haircut in New York City, a party, a sale. Did I say flat tire? Speakers that are really loud. Compression.
Matt: Oo, The Loudness War.
Alex: Yeah, trying to win The Loudness War.
Matt: Loud was a pretty unifying theme.
Zach: Blowing out is an action. Like, we just blew it out. That’s what blowout is.
Matt: It’s the guy next to you on the train with the fucking Beats by Dre headphones.
Zach: It’s the fucking guy today: some guy spit in the fucking conductor’s face! He was blowing it out.
Alex: We saw an assault today. “The city’s blown out,” like post-apocalypse, or the actual fallout, like the explosion.
Ryan: And hi-fi. An album that doesn’t sound like a washed-out garage album, which is what a lot of things sound like. Like, a band that can play their songs.
Adam: Bricked out.
Matt: Bricked out is when [the sound levels are just] fucking dark.
Adam: There’s no wave, really.
Matt: There’s no dynamic.
Adam: It’s just squares. We got a mix back once, I was like, “yo that shit is bricked out, son!”
Zach: And we didn’t like the mix. But now we like it. Now we brick it out. At first, we were scared of bricking it out.
Adam: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Brick it out.
Alex: No—if you join them, you can beat them. That’s the difference.
You’ve been sitting on this album for a while.
Alex: Yeah, it’s flat. We’ve been sitting on it so much it’s flat. It’s like up our ass.
Ryan: It’s like when you have your wallet in your pocket for really long in your jeans, and your jeans fade to have the wallet mark on them. I hate that. We’ve been sitting on it for a year.
Zach: A year! Not that long. Everybody’s like, “oh it’s really long.” I mean, what is a year? It’s 12 months.
Matt: Yeah, who cares, man? The world wasn’t ready for it when we finished it! That’s what we decided.
yawn….
“Hipsters just reappropriate other fads from other ages… But there’s no new culture around it; it’s all borrowing from old cultures without using any of the actual principles the culture stood for. It’s just rehashing without the original glow. A so-so glow.”
*peavey *beatle