Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephantħ:30 p.m. We've all been around each other a long time. We were 15 when Andy started a band with Jay and I put up a flier in the guitar teacher's room at church looking for a guitarist. I met Robert when he was in fourth grade and I was in seventh. Andy and Jay met at Providence Christian Academy. We all met in Atlanta and went to Perimeter Church. What's the band's back story as far as your Atlanta roots?Ī. I feel like people have called us an emo band in the past and it puts a certain stigma on you. I think it's definitely a clearing of the palette to say we can do whatever we want now. Do you feel as if the band has found its niche?Ī. It was the first time we used a full string arrangement, a 12-piece orchestra of Atlanta players who came to Tree Sound Studios and banged it out in four hours. It was very calculated, like we should put a snippet of horns here or strings there. Once we got to the studio, it was meticulous layering. Musically, it goes from being very moody and somber to songs that are very power-pop, like "Pensacola." How involved was the rest of the band in creating the musical journey?Ī. The song sort of sums up the record, like, the pause moment you have among all of this chaos. It does describe the album in a weird way, though. I believe the way it happened, the song came first, so it made sense. Did you choose the title "Simple Math" to be ironic, since nothing about the album is simple?Ī. We're very close and spend every day together, even when we're not on tour, so we were aware that this was a big chunk of his life. We started hearing what he was singing and realized what he was talking about. He didn't bring it to the table as a concept album. How did the band respond when Andy came in with the idea of a concept record?Ī. The new album has some pretty heavy parts. GWhat if you were crDazy, would we have to listen then GWhat if weve been tDrying to get to where weve always bGeen GWhat if I was wrDong, and. Freeman called in from a tour stop in Detroit last week to talk about the intricate album and his bandmates, who, he said, live a “collective 1.8 miles from each other.”
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