Spring Break
Tour proves The Receiving End of Sirens just won't stop!
Brandon Weiss
Issue date: 10/12/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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After a year and half of straight touring on their debut album, Between the Heart and the Synapse, the six-piece experimental rock outfit from Boston, Mass. parted ways with a staple member of the band, guitarist/vocalist Casey Cresenzo. Not even losing a crucial member of the band would stop TREOS.
This summer, TREOS released their sophomore effort, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi, a literal, melodic interpretation of Johannes Kepler's theory, which explains how each planet sings its own melody; Planet Earth's melody being "Mi, Fa, Mi," which represents "misery, famine, misery." Now, with two enormous records under their belt, TREOS is bringing their prog-pop mix to the masses, opening for pop-rock heavyweights New Found Glory and Senses Fail. TREOS bassist/singer Brendan Brown caught up with The Triangle recently to discuss the band's recent developments.
The Triangle: Overall, would you say this was a different approach than from when you recorded Between the Heart and the Synapse?
Brendan Brown: Yeah it was, definitely. I mean one big thing that helped out with this record is that now we're like a full time band and this is our job so when we finished touring it was like alright, we moved to a farm which was our rehearsal space, and we focused solely on writing the next record, whereas the first record, we were all either in college or working full time jobs. It was like, okay you go to school all day, or you work all day, and then you go to the practice space and you'd write. It was just less of a natural process. It was something that it was hard to be even be 100 percent concentrated on because we had so much else going on in our lives. So things happened in a more spaced out fashion. All the songs were written at the same time. It was a little more difficult to write the record because we had less time than this time around. This time all of our time, all of our energy, all of our thoughts, were put into just doing this record. So I think we were able to make a record that I think we all felt a lot more connected to and happy with. Something that we definitely thought was a better-reflected image of ourselves.
This summer, TREOS released their sophomore effort, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi, a literal, melodic interpretation of Johannes Kepler's theory, which explains how each planet sings its own melody; Planet Earth's melody being "Mi, Fa, Mi," which represents "misery, famine, misery." Now, with two enormous records under their belt, TREOS is bringing their prog-pop mix to the masses, opening for pop-rock heavyweights New Found Glory and Senses Fail. TREOS bassist/singer Brendan Brown caught up with The Triangle recently to discuss the band's recent developments.
The Triangle: Overall, would you say this was a different approach than from when you recorded Between the Heart and the Synapse?
Brendan Brown: Yeah it was, definitely. I mean one big thing that helped out with this record is that now we're like a full time band and this is our job so when we finished touring it was like alright, we moved to a farm which was our rehearsal space, and we focused solely on writing the next record, whereas the first record, we were all either in college or working full time jobs. It was like, okay you go to school all day, or you work all day, and then you go to the practice space and you'd write. It was just less of a natural process. It was something that it was hard to be even be 100 percent concentrated on because we had so much else going on in our lives. So things happened in a more spaced out fashion. All the songs were written at the same time. It was a little more difficult to write the record because we had less time than this time around. This time all of our time, all of our energy, all of our thoughts, were put into just doing this record. So I think we were able to make a record that I think we all felt a lot more connected to and happy with. Something that we definitely thought was a better-reflected image of ourselves.
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