![]() ![]() Come on, man!” I had to step back and ask myself, “What do I want to do here? What would a country musician play?” That’s literally what I thought to myself – I’m a massive fan of Davey Lane and what he does in You Am I, and especially on Deliverance he’s got some real country-sounding licks in there. On the first track, there’s a little guitar part that comes in the second verse – we were like, “Alright we need a second riff,” so I scratched up a part and went, “Yeah, that sounds good, that fits.” But then I went back to it later on, I was like, “I… Have literally done this exact part a million times.” It’s a little Blink-182-esque picking thing, and I was like, “No. isn’t really a complicated record – it’s probably our most straightforward one, actually, but we really pushed ourselves to try different things. Were you excited to really push yourself as a player on this record, too?Ībsolutely! There are habits that every guitar player falls into. We all really enjoyed the freedom, and I think it is definitely more authentic to who we are and what we wanted to portray, musically, this time around. Because there are times when you work with producers where you’re like, “I kind of want to try this” and they’re like, “Nup, we should do it like this.” But when I’m by myself, I can do whatever I want – and if the idea sucks, I haven’t wasted anyone else’s time. I think it absolutely is more authentic, and I think there was a freedom in just kind of being the masters of our own destiny. Having complete control over this record, do you feel more attached to it, or would you say it’s more authentic to what Luca Brasi is at a core level? And then Pat was the genius that said, “Why don’t we record the drums where we rehearse, and then record everything else ourselves?” We’ve got Line 6 Helix guitar modellers now, so we did one song like that as an experiment, Andre gave us some production notes and Darren Cordeaux gave us a few pointers, and then we got it mixed and we were like, “That sounds great!” So it was full steam ahead from there, the idea being that we wanted it to be a bit more casual… And then lockdown happened, so we had no choice anyways! We did “Tangled” and “Selfish Love” with Andrei Eremin in Melbourne, who was a gun and had great ideas – we sent him the demos and he’d be like, “Try changing this little bit.” So we’d try it and immediately go, “Oh! How did we not think of that!?” We discussed doing a few songs at a time so we didn’t have to be in a studio for three weeks, get there after work at six o’clock and be there ’til two in the morning – Pat and Danny have two kids each now, so it’s just not an option to do that anymore. What was it like doing this album almost entirely in-house? I was just like, “Ah yeah, here’s a song, I wrote it in four minutes,” and the next thing you know, Ty goes, “That’s really cool, man, I’ve already written the chorus!” We were really just f***ing around together – whereas with Stay, it was like, “Oh my God, every tiny little note and chord has to be absolutely perfect, neer, neer, neer!” This time it was like, “Yep, this is a G chord, that’s a C chord, there’s a song, you beauty!” It was heaps more relaxed, and we had a lot more fun making it. When we link up with Busby to chat about the record, he looks almost surprisingly well-slept, and he’s quick to wax lyrical on how excited he is to be heading into a new album cycle.īut after a few days it was just like, “Oh, we’re just hanging out with each other, playing some guitars, going to Pat’s house to sing some songs… This is actually fun!” I think we actually made a conscious effort to put heaps less pressure on ourselves. ![]() Album #5 may be titled Everything Is Tenuous, but as far as the band themselves go, spirits have never been higher. Off the record, shredder Tom Busby admitted he was severely burnt out on songwriting frontman Tyler Richardson made it clear that a fifth Luca Brasi record was anything but guaranteed.Īnd yet, somehow the band pushed through to make 2020 their most creatively gratifying year to date – ironically so, given how dire everything else in the world had been. Not to mention, the writing and recording processes for Stay were long and arduous, fraught with scheduling issues, pressure to succeed both internal and external, and severe lapses in mental health. They’d suddenly catapulted from local dive bars to capital city theatres, and were copping more media attention per week than they typically would in a year. Behind the scenes, Luca Brasi was struggling, and hard.
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