Spanish for 100

Today is Tuesday. They said it was going to snow last night and as I awoke occasionally with the wind my doubts mounted. Mostly though it is good to say that I miss the snow and how it used to make a new mood, a new chance.
We finished tracking the bass and drums yesterday at Jupiter studios. I guess you could say we are off to the races with our fourth record. This one is shaping up to be something very special. And there was something restful in me as the songs came and went and we picked our sounds and our way through the lists and notes packed into the margins. Maybe I am at ease. Maybe I know something….
I will try to keep you posted on how it goes from here as we track the guitars and vocals between the drafty, fir-clad walls of barns lost in fir forests, as we set microphones in the bowels of a wooden schooner as it hucks and dips in forty-foot seas with lighting wrecking the mast. I will try to tell you about shielding off vipers as we tune our guitars and in the swelter of an unknown South-Pacific island, and lay down harmonies in bitter, deathly chill of remote villages in the Himalayas. I will try to tell it as it is. I will try to bring you in. I will try to see the end.
-Corey

and so it has begone. the new record. record #4.
the fourth record. the one before 5. it’s underway!

and to get you in the mood…here are some pics from the first sessions taken by our big buck buddy Ryan Schierling:

– Aaron

thanks everyone for coming out to the show at the skylark last night. it’s always a treat to meet new folks at our shows! New song debut last night went really well too!

- A

Oh yes. We will be sharpening our rock to a jagged, shiny point, with which we will SHANK you come Saturday night. You better f’n believe it. Get thee to the Skylark on January 12th! (Everybody loves to be shanked! Its just like being on “The Wire” for real!)

-R

It’s that time of the decade when we gather ’round the computer and start the process of recording a new record..if you’d like to hear the new songs…come on by the show on the 12th!

in fact…we’re #6 in the SPIN MIX.

In the tradition of fellow smarty-pants Northwesterners Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie, this foursome prove as handy with a muscular hook as they are with a thesaurus.”

AND we’re in Amplifier Magazine…
““Say What You Want To Say” is truly irresistible. Produced by Johnny Sangster (Dear John Letters) and mixed by Phil Ek (Modest Mouse, The Shins), Say What You Want To Say To Me is a powerful and visceral album—the guitars solo away, the drums pound and cook and singer Corey Passons’ voice ripples through it all with a delicious blend of athleticism and finesse.”

AND Aaron interviewed Doug Martsch of Built to Spill in the oct issue of Seattle Sound Magazine…

AND we’re in Performer Magazine…
“Say What You Want to Say to Me opens with a pair of stunners. Like many a great rock offering, the album bursts out of the gates with something of a rally cry. “Attack!” blisters the listener with the best of what’s to come: driving riffs, smart arrangements of alternating density, and Passons’ often high-pitched vocal command of the entire proceedings.”

Here are pics from the fall 2006 tour… Spanish for 100 on FLICKR!

Here are pics from our spring 06 tour….:

the building of the bus, seattle to iowa city and more to come…!