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Currently, the band is working on a fuller sound. This change developed during a recent a tour of Europe, where the band played in a number of festivals and large crowd concerts. “When you’re playing to a big crowd and it’s something that’s really slow, it can have a really good effect,” Valle says. “But at the same time you want to engulf everybody and grab their attention. Having a big sound is very effective...
Representative of this development, the band surprised the crowd with their surging new song “Play Dead.” With more powerful lyrics and higher energy, this new song showed a step towards a bigger sound...
According to the band, the creation of what’s behind the sound needs to be the more important aspect of the music. “A good song is always a good song, and that’s what counts with us first, not that we’re using the latest and greatest sound box,” says Donovan...
...good in the sense that anyone can do it, but it’s bad in the sense that now there are millions of people vying for your attention to listen to their music. In the past, it was a lot harder to be in a band, make a CD and release it to the public. Now, it’s quite easy, so the whole market is saturated with this stuff, and it’s hard as a listener to find your way through that to the good stuff...
...band is surprised about how quickly the change took place. “Since the time we’ve been there, there has been a change from almost no New York bands to every band [you hear about] is from New York,” Donovan says...