Salvo Review on Fazer

Some fine words for the new EP! Check it out here.

Salvo EP Preview Vid

Yes ladeez and gents, the Salvo EP is in the can, and trickling through the virtual ether. The follow-up to All of Us Cities features five expansive and melodic new tracks. We're also introducing the live band The Deed on the EP, adding some extra bang and thump to the proceedings. Luke, drummer Zack Mykula, bassist Scott Hannigan, and studio whiz Marc Koecher are all here in this clip of our time in the studio, set to the instrumental rumblings of "Hadron and the Supercollider".

"Wheels Come Off" Online

Recording is done! The songs are mixed, mastered and put to bed. Me and the boys in the band are pretty pleased with the results, five massive tracks to pummel your brains with a barrage of repeated sonic epiphanies. Hence the title the Salvo EP...

Still a mess of work to be done, the artwork rigamarole, pressing and other release options like download cards, which a lot of bands are using as a cheaper alternative to producing CDs. (Editorial aside: would you be more likely to buy a CD, or a digital download?) Expect the full EP to surface early on in the new year.

In the meantime, because we love you, the lead track "Wheels Come Off" is available now for streaming and download at MySpace and ReverbNation. It's a bit of a soaring, brilliant beast, a six-minute slab of all the new band can do. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Plenty more to come....

Final mix-down at Iguana

We're into the final mix-down phase for our upcoming Salvo EP. I'm blogging from Iguana up in Downsview as Marc mixes "Fightsong", one of the tracks we've been working on. It sounds great on their absolutely massive SSL board. Trying out BlogWriter, a handy little app for my iPhone. If you like the short and sporadic approach to blogging, check out my twitter feed at http://www.twitter.com/sneydman. We're in the middle of a very long day. The work is painstaking and fiddlesome, but wow when the final mix goes up, it sounds pretty superb. The guys here (Vic, John and Luke) are really laidback and knowledgeable. I'm capturing some pics and video snippets which should see the light of day over the next few weeks. The EP is still a ways off, but we should be posting a lead track in the very near future. Till then!