Local band shows much potential on latest record
Chris Sannino
Issue date: 5/29/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
TJ: We've gone through a lot of different types of transitions, you know, different people. Except After Sea is not so much Except After Sea as it is just us and our friends' project and whatever the name was-
Brandon: [The name was] An Enemy Entity.
I heard the album the other day and it's definitely a real easy listen, a lot of the songs remind me sort of Brian Wilson meets The Flaming Lips.
TJ : Like if the two bands had sex and gave birth?
Yeah, definitely not a bad thing. Who sang on the album the most?
Pete: The two of us [me and TJ], we split it up.
TJ: There are 13 tracks and one of them is instrumental. I think it's like six and six.
Pete: But we'd all sing behind whoever was singing main vocals, then when I sang main vocals TJ would sing backup vocals and that sort of thing.
TJ: We have a very healthy K-Ci and JoJo relationship going on … that's a pretty fair comparison.
How long did it take to make the album, and who recorded it?
Brandon: The recording process we started over Christmas break in December and we just cut a final copy the 28 of May. We recorded with Chris Baglivo and Evan Bernard at Drexel.
Pete: We recorded all live instruments with them and some auxiliary instruments, but most the vocals we did on our own. We did our last two EPs to click tracks and did just drums, then bass, then guitar, and so on.
TJ: We were a bit limited with what we were trying to do. We recorded for free just about, and then we wanted to make it sound good but also be on our own. So Pete and I would sit in my old house which was big and open and wooden, and we'd hang a silk shirt from corner to corner in a room and sing through it.
Pete: Like a pop filter.
TJ: Just little random kind of ghetto rig-ups that we had to do. We just wanted to get the stuff down for what we wanted it to sound like grimy, dirty, whatever, we just wanted to have fun with it.
Brandon: [The name was] An Enemy Entity.
I heard the album the other day and it's definitely a real easy listen, a lot of the songs remind me sort of Brian Wilson meets The Flaming Lips.
TJ : Like if the two bands had sex and gave birth?
Yeah, definitely not a bad thing. Who sang on the album the most?
Pete: The two of us [me and TJ], we split it up.
TJ: There are 13 tracks and one of them is instrumental. I think it's like six and six.
Pete: But we'd all sing behind whoever was singing main vocals, then when I sang main vocals TJ would sing backup vocals and that sort of thing.
TJ: We have a very healthy K-Ci and JoJo relationship going on … that's a pretty fair comparison.
How long did it take to make the album, and who recorded it?
Brandon: The recording process we started over Christmas break in December and we just cut a final copy the 28 of May. We recorded with Chris Baglivo and Evan Bernard at Drexel.
Pete: We recorded all live instruments with them and some auxiliary instruments, but most the vocals we did on our own. We did our last two EPs to click tracks and did just drums, then bass, then guitar, and so on.
TJ: We were a bit limited with what we were trying to do. We recorded for free just about, and then we wanted to make it sound good but also be on our own. So Pete and I would sit in my old house which was big and open and wooden, and we'd hang a silk shirt from corner to corner in a room and sing through it.
Pete: Like a pop filter.
TJ: Just little random kind of ghetto rig-ups that we had to do. We just wanted to get the stuff down for what we wanted it to sound like grimy, dirty, whatever, we just wanted to have fun with it.
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