Waiting for the Dust to Settle

What a week we've had!

Last Friday was the release of our first album, So Rises the Moon.  It was a wonderful experience for us.  We played some songs off our album, some new songs to be on future albums (hopefully), and one of our favorite covers, Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.  Gregory Paul and Shannon Stephens each played an incredible set.  It was an honor sharing the stage with them.  We really want to thank everyone who came out!  We were shocked at the support we received.  We also want to thank everyone who purchased our album.  We thought we printed plenty to last us a long time, but it looks like we're going to be printing more in the near future.

We also got our first radio play last night!  KAOS 89.3, the college station from Evergreen, played May 17th on their show last night.  This video essentially sums up how we felt: That Thing You Do.

Earlier in the week our first music video was released.  We had a few people help out that we'd like to thank:  Fred Sprinkle from Hands on Films and Brian Russell from Willowcraft Media for doing all of the filming, and of course, Carlton Eide ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/carltoneide ) for doing not only the editing, but also the recording of the actual song itself.  Go have a look at it here: Mr. Tinman

Shows in the future?
Well, we do have a few more shows scheduled.  First up is a Holiday Party put on by Bellingham's semi-pro football team, the Blitz.  It is on Thursday, December 2nd.  For more information, look on our Facebook page.  Our next show will be at The Fort's Christmas Party.  That should be a fun show with all of our friends.  We are currently being booked for shows in January, but nothing's finalized yet.

Again, thank you all for your support!  You are incredible.

Until next time...

Song Meanings

A lot of the time our songs are straightforward, but there are times when their meanings don't come across as openly as we'd like.  Seeing as mid-concert isn't the best time to go into the depths of a lot of pain and growth, a blog is the perfect place for this.  So here are our songs and what they mean:

Mr. Tinman - There are times in our lives where we just need anyone to help us; times where we feel the lowest of low.  That's what this song's about.  Having less of an ability to love than a tinman, to be less courageous than the cowardly lion, and more foolish than the scarecrow - we've all felt that way sometime or another.  This song's also supposed to carry the hope of getting out of that situation and taking an honest look at your life to figure out where to start rebuilding.

Siren's Lullaby is about struggling with doing wrong and being mastered by it.  However, the focus is on the redemption from that place of struggle and finding freedom and life outside of your mistakes.

Quite Like This is about feeling something new.  Not just that, but it's about how it feels to be loved despite making some serious mistakes.  It's this sort of feeling of not understanding how you are still loved, but being desperately thankful that you are.

Hope is a song of lost love and dealing with that.  We've all had times where we've been left in the dust by someone we care about, and this song deals with the feelings we're left with - hopelessness, desperation, fear.

What's Left (the really long song) - After looking at where humanity is in terms of how we treat each other, this song is just a longing for something better.  It's a song of disappointment in how humanity treats each other on both a grand scale and the intimate, interpersonal scale.  

May 17th is a song written for Tyler's nephew, Zachary, who was stillborn a week past his due date as a result of circumstances entirely unforeseeable and out of anyone's hands.  It is a song about the hope we have that those we love will be seen again.  It's about the understanding that there's a place better than this world, and though we feel loss in the deepest pieces of our being and that pain resonates for the rest of our lives, we know that they truly are happy and in a wonderful place where they're experiencing a love we can only look forward to one day.

So there they are.  Those are just the songs that will be coming out on our EP, So Rises the Moon.  As more songs are written we'll do our best to always tell you what we're singing about.

Until next time...

Update!

This is the first entry on our blog, so we thought we'd update you on all that's going on.

First and foremost, our album is on its way.  We are titling it "So Rises the Moon."  It expresses our understanding that even in the darkest times of our life there will always be a light somewhere.  Sometimes it comes out in its fullness and pierces the night sky and other times there's just a sliver that you have to squint to see, but nonetheless, its always there.  This album is the culmination of a lot of experience being thrown into a dark night and having to find the light in it.  It will have six of our favorite tracks on it (in no specific order):

- Mr. Tinman
- Siren's Lullaby
- Quite Like This
- Hope
- May 17th
- What's Left

We're really excited for it.  It's the result of a lot of hours (most of them late into the night) in the studio, a bunch more time spent mixing it (usually bright and early in the morning), and currently more time spent in mastering.  It will be released on November 19th at our CD release show in Seattle at the Q Cafe (directions).  We are really excited for this show.  We get to play with Shannon Stephens and Gregory Paul, two incredibly talented artists.  Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8:00.  It's a Friday night, so we'd love to see you all there.  Tickets are $8 advance, $10 at the door.  You can buy them online here: Tickets.

That's pretty much it for now.

Until next time...