The Blog
Updated when we have something to say. No schedule. No newsletter.
on "Slowburn" being out
It's weird to release something. You live with it for months and then one day it's just out there and people are listening to it on their commutes or whatever. Strangers have opinions about it now.
"Slowburn" started as a riff Jordan had been playing for about three weeks on a nylon string guitar at 1am in his apartment. He sent a voice memo. We said okay. We built it up from there over about two weeks of actual studio time and about five weeks of arguing about the mix.
The feedback at the end was an accident that we decided to keep. The whole song sort of builds to it and then just sits in it for forty seconds. Some people think that's too long. We think it's the point.
If you've listened to it: thank you. If you've shared it: thank you more. If you haven't listened yet: go do that.
— LSS
back in the studio: a brief report
We've been recording again since January. I want to give an update but I also don't want to oversell anything before it exists, so I'll just say: we're making the best stuff we've made. The direction is more direct than the EP. Less pretty, more blunt.
Sam has been running her guitar through a broken preamp that gives everything this slightly wrong quality, like a signal that's being transmitted through something it shouldn't be. We've leaned into it. The wrongness became the point.
Alex figured out a bass tone that sounds like a car engine idling underwater. I don't know how to explain it further. Mira has been playing simpler parts and it's somehow hitting harder than anything she's played before.
"the best recording sessions are the ones where you do something by accident and then you spend three hours trying to recreate it on purpose."
We're aiming to have everything recorded by end of May. Then mixing. Then out. No label, no timeline, just us deciding when it's done.
the Static Youth EP: where it came from
We put out the Static Youth EP in 2024 and didn't really talk about it much. Here's a brief explainer for anyone who cares.
We recorded it in Mike's basement over about six weekends. Mike is a friend, not in the band. His basement has this weird natural reverb from the concrete walls that we liked so much we tried to recreate it in the mix and couldn't, so we just used the room.
"Ghost Frequency" was the first song we wrote as a band, from a practice session that we recorded by accident. The version on the EP is almost exactly the same as what came out of that practice. We added one guitar layer and Mira re-did the drums because the original kick drum was mic'd badly.
"Drift" was the last one recorded and the longest. Six and a half minutes. We were going to cut it down. We didn't. It needs the time it takes.
first show recap
We played our first show last Saturday. About 40 people. Tiny venue. The PA was borrowed and the monitor mix was basically useless. We could barely hear each other.
It was great.
There's something that happens in a loud band when the sound gets big enough that you can't separate the instruments anymore. They all become one thing. That happened about two songs in and didn't stop until the last note.
Someone told us after that we were "too loud for the room." We said yes, that was the idea. They didn't seem satisfied with that answer. We were.
— mira // somewhere loud
