How do I begin? Do I say how madly in love I am with my new Twilight Sleep army?
Nicole Gehweiler (formerly of the New York band, The Comas) is playing guitar. She shares a similar passion for lush noise, studios, and pedal tweaking. We get to nerd out together, plus she's a lovely person and not too bad to look at if you must know. We're borrowing Davey Latter for as long as he'll let us to play drums (despite the fact that he campaigns to have us change our band name to things like "maggot neck"). Bass player to be announced shortly as we've narrowed it down to two and will have a hard time with that decision because they're both incredible. I've had worse dilemmas...
We've started recording more new songs with Steven Rhodes (who engineered Silversun Pickups last record). He has a cool aesthetic and working with him has been creative heaven. I secretly call him "xanex" because he has such a calming effect on my warp speed over-thinking brain. Last week we started with drums at Sound Factory studios and I felt extremely spoiled to be there. The control room looks like the cockpit of a spaceship (or at least how I imagine one to look)! Davey layed down some drum parts that were a beautiful surprise.
So, now we've booked our first show and I can't wait to see you all again... I promise not to hibernate for so long ever again. Between now and then, we'll be popping in and out of recording studios whenever anyone will let us in, daydreaming about communist era russian synthesizers, plugging in pedals, and counting down till we get to come out and play.
xoTracy