Yeah, the plan has just been to go for it and figure it out along the way. Can you tell me about how the recording process for the album has been? Has it run to plan? You can hold it, put it on your record player, kick backвЂ¦ I think until it actually releases this Fall and people can actually hear it, then it will hit me: IвЂ™ve finished it! ItвЂ™s all done! I did this record, I recorded it myself, and itвЂ™s out in the world. ItвЂ™s going to take me a while to process that because IвЂ™ve been working on it for so long.

I havenвЂ™t even processed that yet actually. How does it feel that after so long, that itвЂ™s reached the time for people to buy your debut album? It gave us a lot of momentum to go into this LP and be more excited to do studio versions of some of those songs, and write new stuff. Those YouTube videos have been shared quite a bit, got lots of hits.

The video pieces that went with that helped a lot too. We were trying to give it away for free, building more exposure, letting more people know who we were and what we did.

We had a tonne of downloads вЂ“ I think maybe 7,000 in the first week. It did better than I thought it was going to do. Now, when we last spoke Live in Color was about to be released. IвЂ™m looking forward to hearing this track! When the album comes out, IвЂ™ll ask you which one it is. It already feels a certain way to you and means something to you, so IвЂ™m trying to get them just right for this track. The issue is that itвЂ™s so hard when youвЂ™ve had the song for a long time because you want the lyrics to be perfect. ThatвЂ™s what a lot of our music is likeвЂ¦ the music gets written and recorded first and the words at the very end. Yeah вЂ“ actually the rest of the song is even being mixed but I still have to record some vocals for it. Which means youвЂ™ve still got to record some vocals too! ItвЂ™s all pretty exciting.ДЄnd you said youвЂ™re still working on lyrics for one song? But yeah, up until the very last minute the track listing and all of that can change. ItвЂ™ll be mastered two days before the pre-order. Well by the time people pre-order the album the record will be done. So by the time this interview is published, people will be pre-ordering the album and itвЂ™s still happening! The record is coming together, and IвЂ™m working on it right until the very last minute! Right up until our mastering date IвЂ™m still working on mixing and I still have lyrics to write and record vocals for one song. Last week I caught up with lead singer and ringleader Chad Gardner to squeeze more album information out of him.Д¬HAD: IвЂ™m doing pretty well. Although we know the album title and now what the cover looks like, thereвЂ™s still much mystery surrounding what to expect from this record. In the last week, the band announced they had signed with label Tooth & Nail, and yesterday pre-order went live for their debut LP, Becoming Who We Are. ThatвЂ™s a lot to squeeze into eight months, but thereвЂ™s plenty more to come. They released the Live in Color EP in March (read my interview with Chad about it here), and have spent the time since bunkering down to focus on their debut album. The band split from Mars Hill Music in January becoming independent and partnering with Bad Christian.

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