Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2007–2012
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What were your reactions upon discovering that Broom was in the top 200 CMJ? Were you at all surprised? Well, the promotion company thought it would chart...but we were still surprised. I think we're still surprised when someone REALLY…
Do you have a favorite track on Newborn? Each song does something different for me. There's something about "Warm Blooded" that I can't quite describe. When I finished that song, it seemed to live and breathe on its own. Something bigger…
A lot of the songs on the Our Home Is Gone are acoustic; what made you decide to switch from that style to a full instrumentation? Meg and I have always liked the sounds of drums and bass...and all other instruments for that matter: piano,…
What are your major musical influences? I think some of my more obvious influences would be Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (for awhile I was unsure whether I was being overly derivative of his style until I began writing a few folksier…
What inspired you to have a differing photograph inset for As If By Ghosts? I like the idea of these complete strangers being immortalized whether they like it or not. I have a stockpile of 20 or so that I have not been willing to part…