Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-4-25 hour 3

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2:53 Speaker 6: Some more lot play when I got speak.

3:38 Speaker 8: You guys have such a nice sound.

3:40 Speaker 9: We have slim volume here in studio and we're gonna

3:42 Speaker 9: talk to these guys in just a moment.

3:43 Speaker 8: Welcome everybody.

3:44 Speaker 9: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live and

3:47 Speaker 9: my voice is cracking and it's very upsetting, but we

3:49 Speaker 9: are live on this the first uh Saturday in twenty

3:53 Speaker 9: twenty five. Here from the studios of w m n

3:56 Speaker 9: H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, Newhampster.

3:59 Speaker 8: Do you hear that I just said I had an

4:05 Speaker 8: asthma incident? Recently, and I've apparently not fully recovered.

4:08 Speaker 9: But uh, we are live, of course, and uh having

4:11 Speaker 9: a great time here on this Saturday of our first

4:14 Speaker 9: Saturday of.

4:15 Speaker 10: The new year.

4:16 Speaker 9: And Jenny is here as well, of course at the

4:17 Speaker 9: news table and joining us live in studio. This morning

4:22 Speaker 9: we have Slim Volume. The gentleman from from Slim Volume.

4:26 Speaker 9: Welcome guys, good morning.

4:28 Speaker 8: Yeah, I was trying to remember you guys have been

4:31 Speaker 8: on the show. Has it been once or twice before?

4:34 Speaker 9: It has been twice, Okay, it it becomes a blur

4:38 Speaker 9: after a while, but uh, yeah, you guys have such

4:41 Speaker 9: a great I hadn't so, I hadn't heard that song before,

4:44 Speaker 9: but you guys have such a great sound.

4:47 Speaker 8: Yeah, I just kind of listening. I'm just kind of

4:48 Speaker 8: getting lost in it, you.

4:49 Speaker 11: Know, like, thank you.

4:51 Speaker 8: It's just really really good. Let's let's do this.

4:53 Speaker 9: So for the uninitiated, let's start in the corner here.

4:55 Speaker 9: We'll go around well, you kind of know the drill anyway.

4:57 Speaker 9: You can each tell us who you are, what you

4:59 Speaker 9: do in the band.

5:00 Speaker 11: Yeah, my name is Mike. I played guitar in the band.

5:03 Speaker 12: Okay, Trent over here played acoustic guitar mostly all right,

5:08 Speaker 12: Johnny and I played drums.

5:11 Speaker 10: And I'm Jake. I played bass and I sing along

5:13 Speaker 10: with Trent.

5:14 Speaker 8: Oh very good, very good. Now is this a new album?

5:18 Speaker 8: The song we just heard, Big Plans? Is that from?

5:21 Speaker 8: Is that new?

5:22 Speaker 10: That is from our newest EP, newest collection of four

5:26 Speaker 10: songs that we put out in was that November? Yeah? Okay,

5:30 Speaker 10: it's starting to blur like you said, yeah, yeah, And

5:34 Speaker 10: we released another new EP in we had two and

5:36 Speaker 10: twenty twenty four, so that one's from the second of

5:39 Speaker 10: those called Big Plans.

5:41 Speaker 8: Gotcha?

5:41 Speaker 10: That was the self titled track.

5:43 Speaker 12: Okay, okay?

5:45 Speaker 8: Now what goes into the decision?

5:46 Speaker 9: And this is a subject that we talked about a

5:48 Speaker 9: lot on the show because you know, everybody approaches it differently.

5:51 Speaker 8: There's so many different ways you can do it.

5:55 Speaker 9: I'm always asking, so, why did you decide to do

5:57 Speaker 9: an album or why did you decide to do an EP,

5:58 Speaker 9: or why did you decide to just do single? But

6:00 Speaker 9: in your case, so you release two EPs very close

6:03 Speaker 9: to each other. What's the strategy there or is there one?

6:07 Speaker 9: Or is it just or does it just feel right

6:08 Speaker 9: to do it that way?

6:10 Speaker 13: I feel like when we go about releasing the songs.

6:13 Speaker 13: At least in the past, it's kind of been one

6:15 Speaker 13: of those things where we always have the question of, like,

6:18 Speaker 13: you know, you put a lot of like you know,

6:20 Speaker 13: effort into an album, and then if you drop it,

6:23 Speaker 13: it's kind of like, you know, you really want people

6:25 Speaker 13: to hear it. So sometimes we like take the approach

6:27 Speaker 13: of maybe if we do it in smaller chunks for people,

6:30 Speaker 13: you know, it's just kind of easier to kind of

6:32 Speaker 13: promote it and just like you know, it's not like

6:33 Speaker 13: all your eggs in one basket that could kind of

6:35 Speaker 13: get left behind. Yeah, So doing like two EPs throughout

6:38 Speaker 13: the year was something that was like a little strategic

6:40 Speaker 13: in that sense. But I feel like as moving forward,

6:44 Speaker 13: you know, right now we're currently working on like a

6:46 Speaker 13: ten song album and stuff like that.

6:48 Speaker 11: Yeah.

6:48 Speaker 13: Yeah, so it's definitely kind of trying to shift the

6:50 Speaker 13: approach a little bit and see where that takes us,

6:53 Speaker 13: and also keep it in mind that like I bring

6:56 Speaker 13: some songs to the table, and like Trent and Jake

6:59 Speaker 13: both right, and like, you know, so there's always like

7:01 Speaker 13: a massive influx of material that's kind of like really

7:03 Speaker 13: easy to get overwhelmed with.

7:04 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt, Yeah, no, doubt.

7:08 Speaker 9: Well, so doing a ten like it is your approach

7:12 Speaker 9: in terms of writing different with whereas you're working on

7:15 Speaker 9: a ten song album.

7:17 Speaker 12: Well, I think like with these two EPs, we kind

7:20 Speaker 12: of realized they both had like a very separate sound

7:25 Speaker 12: where this one we just heard was more of like

7:27 Speaker 12: the folk rock influence and the other one was more

7:30 Speaker 12: of a straight indie rock influence. And we can listen

7:33 Speaker 12: to one of those tracks later, yeah, yeah, but and

7:36 Speaker 12: you'll see the difference. And so the album is kind

7:38 Speaker 12: of like the combination of both of those sounds in

7:42 Speaker 12: a little more cohesive way. So splitting the EPs was

7:46 Speaker 12: also a decision of like, sonically they were very separate. Okay,

7:51 Speaker 12: but yeah, I think we like Mike was kind of

7:52 Speaker 12: alluding to, it's been a progression from doing singles, now

7:57 Speaker 12: a couple of EPs and now just time to yeah,

8:00 Speaker 12: focused on a bigger project.

8:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, what about in terms of where you record like

8:06 Speaker 9: these EPs that you've done, have you recorded these all

8:08 Speaker 9: the same way?

8:09 Speaker 10: Or we work with Eric Sotter at Blackhart Sound Yes, yeah,

8:13 Speaker 10: here in Manchester. He's awesome.

8:15 Speaker 9: His name is cop Well, we had him on the

8:16 Speaker 9: show too, but leading up to having him on the show.

8:19 Speaker 9: I remember telling him you got to come on because

8:21 Speaker 9: his name. Of anybody in the area who does recording,

8:24 Speaker 9: who has any kind of a studio, his name comes

8:26 Speaker 9: up by far the most often.

8:28 Speaker 10: He's prolific.

8:28 Speaker 9: Oh he's amazing. Yeah, yeah, so incredible. So so sorry,

8:32 Speaker 9: my voice keeps racking. So the EPs were recorded with him, Yeah, excellent.

8:37 Speaker 14: Yeah.

8:37 Speaker 10: And also on that track, we had a guy named

8:41 Speaker 10: James Palco who plays under a name that Jimmy Montague.

8:46 Speaker 10: It's like a yacht rock kind of sounds really cool,

8:48 Speaker 10: but he worked in the studio before. He's moved since.

8:51 Speaker 10: But you heard the organ at the end of that

8:53 Speaker 10: song that was playing that on that track, So yeah,

8:55 Speaker 10: he's kind of a very talented multi instrumentalist producer guy.

8:58 Speaker 9: That's a cool way to end too, because because as

9:02 Speaker 9: I'm listening and I'm hearing it for the first time,

9:04 Speaker 9: and as I'm listening to it's it's at that part,

9:06 Speaker 9: you know, it's at the end of the song. I

9:07 Speaker 9: should probably fade it out and start talking, right, you know,

9:10 Speaker 9: as a DJ. But I'm like, I couldn't because I

9:12 Speaker 9: wanted to hear that play out, you know what I mean,

9:15 Speaker 9: Because it just sounded so cool because it's kind of

9:17 Speaker 9: a surprise. You don't expect to hear that at the

9:19 Speaker 9: end like that, but it just works so perfectly, you know.

9:22 Speaker 9: So it's like I didn't even want to talk over it.

9:24 Speaker 10: It's one of those things that just sort of happened to.

9:26 Speaker 10: He just was playing and he kind of just kept

9:28 Speaker 10: hanging on that last chord and I think we probably

9:31 Speaker 10: thought maybe we'll fade it out too, but we ended

9:34 Speaker 10: up liking it, I think as just a kind of

9:36 Speaker 10: a weird ending that you usually wouldn't hear out of

9:38 Speaker 10: us because none of us are organists, right right, so.

9:42 Speaker 9: When you play that one live, that that's not there

9:44 Speaker 9: obviously no organ yet, no organ yet.

9:47 Speaker 12: Yeah, although there may be a surprise for our next

9:50 Speaker 12: show with regards to He's Oh okay, that's been a

9:56 Speaker 12: little little discussion in the band for a while. We've

9:58 Speaker 12: always thought, you know, another element would be helpful. Yeah,

10:03 Speaker 12: but yeah, I think we may have that in place

10:06 Speaker 12: for two weeks from yesterday. Oh okay, Yeah, okay, that's

10:09 Speaker 12: kind of like the other, you know, the other you know,

10:12 Speaker 12: promotional element of this radio appearance is in two weeks

10:17 Speaker 12: Banker New Hampshire stage we're playing for the Modern Fools

10:22 Speaker 12: album release show.

10:23 Speaker 10: Nice.

10:24 Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know if you ever heard the band

10:25 Speaker 12: Modern Fools. They're from Keen and they kind of have

10:28 Speaker 12: more like a truer alt country folk rock sound. So

10:32 Speaker 12: like the song we just heard very much similar to

10:35 Speaker 12: what Modern Fools. It's like, okay to speak in broad strokes.

10:40 Speaker 8: I almost think we had them on the show. That

10:44 Speaker 8: name is very familiar to me. Modern Fools. Did we

10:46 Speaker 8: have them on the show? Does sound familiar to me?

10:48 Speaker 9: Yeah, or we may have talked to them at some

10:50 Speaker 9: point about coming on. But yeah, no, that's that's very cool.

10:54 Speaker 9: So that's gonna be at what's the.

10:56 Speaker 8: Date on that?

10:56 Speaker 12: That's January seventeenth.

10:58 Speaker 8: Outstanding. That's yeah, outstanding?

11:02 Speaker 10: Are you guys?

11:03 Speaker 9: So all the I assume, like from both EPs that

11:06 Speaker 9: you've released, do do you play all all eight of

11:09 Speaker 9: those live?

11:11 Speaker 11: Yeah?

11:11 Speaker 10: That sort of to varying degrees. Yeah, there's the set

11:15 Speaker 10: list always fluctuates kind of based on mood and all

11:18 Speaker 10: kinds of other factors. But there's some songs where, for

11:21 Speaker 10: any number of reasons, they kind of like find their

11:23 Speaker 10: way out of the set lists and then but yeah,

11:25 Speaker 10: for the most part.

11:26 Speaker 13: Yeah, there's one song on each of those EPs off

11:28 Speaker 13: of Big Plans, that one being if Only and off

11:32 Speaker 13: of Back to You Kpos Seven that like sometimes don't

11:35 Speaker 13: really like make it out to just plan for yeah

11:37 Speaker 13: whatever reason, Like, yeah, they're cool songs and I'm glad

11:39 Speaker 13: they made it on the EP and stuff like that.

11:41 Speaker 13: But sometimes, like as I mentioned before, like having this

11:44 Speaker 13: like big influx of material and stuff like that, like

11:46 Speaker 13: we always get real kind of pumped up to play

11:48 Speaker 13: new stuff live. So it's just like sometimes it's easy

11:50 Speaker 13: to be like, ah, I could hit this new stuff that,

11:52 Speaker 13: like you know, isn't even released yet, but like it's

11:54 Speaker 13: kind of a good way to like hone in and

11:56 Speaker 13: like figure out like what you want to do when

11:58 Speaker 13: you record, you know, kind of hearing things live and

12:00 Speaker 13: kind of like oh yeah, passing the waters and stuff

12:02 Speaker 13: like that.

12:02 Speaker 8: See how people react to it.

12:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Man, so's cool.

12:06 Speaker 9: Are you guys playing out a lot uh currently? Or

12:10 Speaker 9: obviously you've got that show, that big one coming up

12:12 Speaker 9: on the seventeenth.

12:13 Speaker 12: But yeah, I mean I think the aside from maybe

12:17 Speaker 12: a busy September, the back half of twenty four was

12:20 Speaker 12: a little bit slower, Yeah, for us and we've been

12:24 Speaker 12: We've been playing a lot in our first like two

12:27 Speaker 12: and a half years as a band. Yeah, but twenty

12:29 Speaker 12: twenty five is shaping up to be pretty busy. We

12:31 Speaker 12: already get maybe like I don't know, ten or twelve

12:34 Speaker 12: dates booked. Good, Yeah, for the first couple of first

12:37 Speaker 12: two three months, the first quarter.

12:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, where do you guys, uh do you guys get

12:41 Speaker 9: out of New Hampshire or do you do you go

12:42 Speaker 9: around New England or where do you guys play?

12:46 Speaker 12: I mean, I think it's mostly New Hampshire, but we're

12:48 Speaker 12: trying to get out.

12:49 Speaker 8: Yeah.

12:50 Speaker 12: Yeah, it's been you know this, it's a it's a

12:53 Speaker 12: mindset shift to be like, all right, let's go, you know,

12:55 Speaker 12: book a long week or long weekend tour kind of thing.

12:59 Speaker 12: Like it's been. There's been enough stuff locally to build,

13:05 Speaker 12: you know, a little fan base too.

13:07 Speaker 8: We are fortunate to have a lot of good venues

13:09 Speaker 8: around here.

13:09 Speaker 12: Actually, yeah, there's a lot of good venues and you know,

13:12 Speaker 12: Conquered's real busy. The seacoast is busy. You know, we

13:15 Speaker 12: played Boston a couple of times, but you know, mostly

13:19 Speaker 12: we've been playing stuff that people ask us to play.

13:22 Speaker 12: We haven't done a ton of like going out and

13:25 Speaker 12: reaching out to venues to book, which again is just

13:29 Speaker 12: kind of like a mindset. It's just one approach. But

13:32 Speaker 12: I mean, I think with this album and everything, like

13:35 Speaker 12: the plan for this year would be to get out

13:37 Speaker 12: a little bit, you know, expand the radius a little bit. Sure,

13:39 Speaker 12: and we've tried. It's it's just gonna be hard sometimes,

13:42 Speaker 12: you know, trying to get something in Burlington or something

13:44 Speaker 12: like that. Like if you don't know someone to throw

13:47 Speaker 12: you right on a show, it's pretty pretty tricky.

13:50 Speaker 9: Burlington has a great scene, but do but you're right

13:52 Speaker 9: if you're not, you know, if you don't have an inn, Yeah, yeah.

13:56 Speaker 8: You know, which which I'm sure we'll come.

13:58 Speaker 9: But as you alluded to too, you're in a you're

14:00 Speaker 9: in a good situation where you know, you're still getting

14:02 Speaker 9: a lot of shows anyway because people are coming to you.

14:04 Speaker 8: So that's a good thing.

14:05 Speaker 12: Yeah, oh yeah, you know that.

14:07 Speaker 9: So you're you're you're off to a you're off to

14:09 Speaker 9: a strong start. But I can also see where, you know,

14:11 Speaker 9: in terms of long term strategy, you know, because obviously

14:14 Speaker 9: you're taking the next step to going to you know,

14:17 Speaker 9: you're gonna have a full album, so it makes sense

14:19 Speaker 9: that you know, everything will continue to evolve.

14:21 Speaker 8: In terms of radius and right building that audience.

14:24 Speaker 10: Right, And.

14:29 Speaker 12: I had an additional thought on that that escapes me.

14:31 Speaker 13: Oh there's something there's something nice about like hit hitting

14:34 Speaker 13: like a fresh set of ears too, because you know,

14:36 Speaker 13: sometimes we get the opportunity, like in twenty twenty four,

14:39 Speaker 13: we have the opportunity to go up to Portland, Maine

14:41 Speaker 13: and play it a place called Blue I believe is

14:43 Speaker 13: what it was called, and it's just a it's a

14:45 Speaker 13: really cool venue and like you know, you just see

14:47 Speaker 13: faces that you hadn't seen previously, and like you know,

14:50 Speaker 13: you kind of get reinvigorated off the excitement of someone

14:53 Speaker 13: that hasn't heard your material. Yes, comes up to you

14:55 Speaker 13: after and they're just like stoked on it. You know,

14:56 Speaker 13: they're like, well, like where are you guys from? Like

14:58 Speaker 13: all that stuff kind of really the energy to be

15:00 Speaker 13: like all right, like we really should like try and

15:02 Speaker 13: like you know, just reach out a little bit, whether

15:03 Speaker 13: it's like north Shore, Massachusetts or like you know, just

15:06 Speaker 13: even like further further going up to Portland, Maine and

15:08 Speaker 13: as you mentioned Burlington, Yeah, and then like you know,

15:10 Speaker 13: I think in the grand scheme, like branching out the

15:12 Speaker 13: places like Brooklyn or like Philly, or have like really

15:15 Speaker 13: hip scenes of like you know, just like indie rock

15:17 Speaker 13: scenes of people that are just kind of doing the thing.

15:19 Speaker 13: It's kind of like, you know, trying to work our

15:21 Speaker 13: way into and become a part of it.

15:22 Speaker 15: You know.

15:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I think too, with your sound, you know,

15:25 Speaker 9: you can probably fit in a lot of different kinds

15:27 Speaker 9: of places, different kinds of scenarios. You know, you're not

15:29 Speaker 9: limited to you know, like if you play in a

15:32 Speaker 9: metal band, uh, you know, you can only play certain

15:35 Speaker 9: kinds of places, you know. And on the other end

15:37 Speaker 9: of the extremes, of course, if you're a singer songwriter

15:40 Speaker 9: just doing a solo acoustic thing, you can play literally

15:41 Speaker 9: almost anywhere. But but I think you guys are in

15:44 Speaker 9: a with your sound, You're in a really good You're

15:46 Speaker 9: in a really good position that way.

15:47 Speaker 12: So it's the thing I was going to say before too,

15:51 Speaker 12: is like, you know, with the way the way Spotify

15:54 Speaker 12: and the way social media work now is you can

15:56 Speaker 12: actually reach a very large audience without having a go

15:59 Speaker 12: throuugh are. So you know that, and that's a constantly

16:03 Speaker 12: evolving situation because the algorithms change and what the social

16:07 Speaker 12: media's favor changes. But you know that And another thing

16:11 Speaker 12: too is, like I heard someone put it one time,

16:14 Speaker 12: win your hometown because a lot of people think like, oh,

16:17 Speaker 12: I got this great band, I gotta get to Nashville asap,

16:20 Speaker 12: and it's like, again, that's one approach, but I think

16:23 Speaker 12: winning the hometown, I mean I feel like that's something

16:25 Speaker 12: you know, we've we've gained some some solid followers. They

16:29 Speaker 12: may not make it out to every single show, but

16:31 Speaker 12: we know they're out there, right.

16:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, when you're hometown. Yeah, that's a good way

16:35 Speaker 9: of putting it. Yeah, that makes sense.

16:36 Speaker 13: It's it's funny sometimes like I have some like just

16:39 Speaker 13: someone like my closest friends, they're like, you know, sometimes

16:42 Speaker 13: you'd expect your friends, but oh, like it's great.

16:44 Speaker 11: But like I have some friends that come up to

16:45 Speaker 11: and they're like they're.

16:46 Speaker 13: Like, dude, I've played back to you like one hundred

16:49 Speaker 13: and fifty times on my Spotify rap. Like they're like this,

16:52 Speaker 13: you know, they're like singing lyrics to me, and I'm

16:54 Speaker 13: just like, it's very funny. Just be like, you know,

16:56 Speaker 13: you're just like a really close friend to me, but

16:57 Speaker 13: to see like the genuine support of that and then

17:00 Speaker 13: like the genuine love of a song. It's just like,

17:01 Speaker 13: you know, it's cool, like like you're saying, just kind

17:03 Speaker 13: of like kind of hometown court thing. Just feels like,

17:06 Speaker 13: you know, it's nice to feel like you got people

17:07 Speaker 13: behind you doing that stuff, like right right, yeah.

17:10 Speaker 8: Exactly, exactly, Well we should.

17:12 Speaker 9: Uh so let's play another one, and h one of

17:16 Speaker 9: you had said suggested we play something from back to

17:19 Speaker 9: You from.

17:21 Speaker 8: The previous Uh.

17:22 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do the song back to You

17:25 Speaker 10: that Mike just alluded to. Good timing.

17:28 Speaker 8: Oh, here we go.

17:29 Speaker 9: I found it, okay, And if you are just joining us,

17:32 Speaker 9: we have slim volume here with us live in studio,

17:36 Speaker 9: and uh, I'm trying to download this and it's uh

17:40 Speaker 9: not happening for me as quickly as i'd like.

17:42 Speaker 12: What you'll hear on this track is the like I

17:46 Speaker 12: said before, the flip side of the folk rock thing,

17:49 Speaker 12: I have a more indie rock forward tune which was

17:54 Speaker 12: a you know, kind of based off a little progression

17:57 Speaker 12: and riff that Mike brought in that was worked into

18:01 Speaker 12: into a song. So yeah, just a good, good dynamic

18:07 Speaker 12: on this one.

18:08 Speaker 8: All right, Let's give this a listen.

18:09 Speaker 12: This is back to you.

18:10 Speaker 8: The band is slim volume.

18:19 Speaker 4: I think we come too far to turn your background now.

18:26 Speaker 1: I think the world's too hard. I'm the best when

18:29 Speaker 1: you're not around. I've spent the last few nights just

18:36 Speaker 1: about an hour to sleep, just waiting for you.

18:42 Speaker 16: There sad when you tis up here, say that you know,

18:55 Speaker 16: showing my face here.

19:00 Speaker 6: I spent the last few nights just about an hour space.

19:12 Speaker 17: May I been trying thing for you a long MANI

19:21 Speaker 17: but I can't.

19:22 Speaker 18: Be finding a way back to you, back to you,

19:32 Speaker 18: back to me?

19:38 Speaker 19: Come horn feeling red, time's come in soon, apot elyptick

19:46 Speaker 19: before a horseman a running frough.

19:51 Speaker 1: I spent the last.

19:53 Speaker 16: Few nights just about trying to breathe.

19:58 Speaker 4: A man baby follow you like guys, smoke man crying

20:07 Speaker 4: like hot chick finding a way back to.

20:14 Speaker 1: Back to me.

20:18 Speaker 4: That I've been coming ready for you, y but hot

20:50 Speaker 4: chick find a way b.

20:56 Speaker 18: That is back to you.

20:57 Speaker 8: That is slim volume.

20:59 Speaker 9: Everything you guys do is catchy, like if you like,

21:02 Speaker 9: if you're If you listen to that and you're not

21:03 Speaker 9: tapping along, you're probably in a coma or something that's

21:07 Speaker 9: like the and it's like the perfect pop indie song.

21:10 Speaker 9: It's it's just it's it's perfect.

21:14 Speaker 10: Thank you.

21:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, you're you're, You're welcome.

21:16 Speaker 9: It is it is well earned if you are just

21:18 Speaker 9: joining us a slim volume is here with us live

21:21 Speaker 9: in studio on this Saturday morning, and uh, that one

21:25 Speaker 9: must go over well live too, I would imagine.

21:26 Speaker 8: I would imagine that gets a pretty pretty big response.

21:29 Speaker 12: Yeah, that one's been successful. I will say selfishly though

21:33 Speaker 12: that lyric that the the vocal at the end is

21:36 Speaker 12: stretching my capabilities. Yeah, And so it's a tricky one.

21:40 Speaker 12: It's kind of like a there's a famous story of

21:42 Speaker 12: the of the Eagles of Randy Meisner, who wrote a

21:45 Speaker 12: What's What's take the Limit and he hated singing it

21:49 Speaker 12: because it was so hard for him to sing and

21:51 Speaker 12: everyone expected him to deliver it night after night. So

21:55 Speaker 12: I know it's not quite Randy Meisner level, but it

21:58 Speaker 12: is similar that that I wrote myself into a corner

22:01 Speaker 12: a little bit with that line.

22:03 Speaker 9: Well, do you know the story of when uh he

22:06 Speaker 9: got into Meisner got into a huge argument with Don

22:09 Speaker 9: Henley about they were backstage one night at a show

22:12 Speaker 9: and Meisner didn't want to sing that song, yeah, because

22:15 Speaker 9: he didn't feel up to it. He'd been partying too

22:17 Speaker 9: much or so right, and Henley was furious. And I

22:19 Speaker 9: think I think that there might have even been uh

22:21 Speaker 9: they might have thrown hands or.

22:23 Speaker 10: Pushed and shoved or something. That's surprising knowing Don Henley.

22:26 Speaker 10: Usually he's so level headed.

22:28 Speaker 12: Yeah, it hasn't come to hands throwing yet, but it

22:31 Speaker 12: has been one that I will say that one. That

22:33 Speaker 12: one is one where if the audience doesn't seem like

22:37 Speaker 12: they're gonna appreciate it, then it's really tricky because if

22:40 Speaker 12: the audience is responding, I can sing it yeah, no problem. Yeah,

22:44 Speaker 12: And that's kind of the the blessing and the curse

22:46 Speaker 12: of being a singer, I guess, right.

22:48 Speaker 13: Right to pour pour your heart out into like a

22:50 Speaker 13: you know, like a half empty room of people, just

22:52 Speaker 13: like you know, like eating a cheeseburger.

22:54 Speaker 11: Try to push that out. It's just kind of like,

22:56 Speaker 11: you know, I could see that being difficult.

22:58 Speaker 8: Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, uh yeah. Are there

23:01 Speaker 8: any other songs where you kind of push that?

23:03 Speaker 12: No, I mean, i'd say that's the trickiest one. I

23:06 Speaker 12: think Jake has a couple.

23:07 Speaker 10: There's probably some. There's a lot of songs where we

23:10 Speaker 10: will sing in harmony and I'll sing a higher part,

23:14 Speaker 10: and like sometimes I'll be like, guys, can we do

23:16 Speaker 10: that one a little later? Can we do that like

23:19 Speaker 10: third or fourth? Yeah, so I'm not quite as creaky.

23:22 Speaker 10: That makes sense, So yeah, it happens for sure, that

23:25 Speaker 10: makes sense.

23:26 Speaker 12: I think like with the new album though, like we're

23:29 Speaker 12: trying to kind of strike I feel like we struck

23:31 Speaker 12: a little bit more of a balance between that energy

23:34 Speaker 12: that we just heard and then the first song we

23:36 Speaker 12: heard and if you could imagine what those would sound

23:38 Speaker 12: like if they had a baby, it's kind of what

23:41 Speaker 12: a lot of that the new album is, where it's

23:42 Speaker 12: got that pop indipop energy, but it's not so like

23:47 Speaker 12: in your face, which is a little outside of kind

23:49 Speaker 12: of like what our sound is to begin with. But

23:53 Speaker 12: I mean, we're not going to stop ourself from writing

23:55 Speaker 12: something like that.

23:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, do you guys play songs out that you

24:00 Speaker 9: haven't recorded yet or yeah? Yeah, because Matt you know

24:03 Speaker 9: well yeah, I think we talked about that earlier. Actually,

24:05 Speaker 9: now that I recall you, because you some of the

24:07 Speaker 9: songs that are going to be on the album you're

24:09 Speaker 9: playing out right.

24:10 Speaker 8: So, yeah, is it a lot of them?

24:12 Speaker 15: Is it?

24:12 Speaker 8: Is it quite a few of them that you're playing.

24:14 Speaker 10: We're finally in the position where we're catching up a

24:16 Speaker 10: little bit, but there's a lot like we're always writing stuff,

24:20 Speaker 10: so it is tough like them. The moment we catch

24:23 Speaker 10: up is the moment there's a handful of new songs. Mike,

24:25 Speaker 10: looks like you had something No.

24:26 Speaker 13: I was just gonna say, like with the new album,

24:28 Speaker 13: like I feel like we've played like, you know, probably

24:29 Speaker 13: a majority majority of it at least once or twice

24:32 Speaker 13: live in a live setting, you know, I mean just

24:34 Speaker 13: like yeah, like I was saying, it's just a great

24:36 Speaker 13: way to kind of like flush things out, you know.

24:37 Speaker 11: It's one thing like you do it in a practice.

24:39 Speaker 13: From all the time stuff like that, and then like

24:41 Speaker 13: sometimes just playing in a different setting for like a

24:43 Speaker 13: freshet of years, it's kind of like might give you

24:45 Speaker 13: a fresh idea, like a new like kind of the

24:47 Speaker 13: view on the song to kind of like take that

24:49 Speaker 13: into the studio and just be like I like, you know,

24:51 Speaker 13: playing this live, I heard that this could be kind

24:53 Speaker 13: of like a cool thing to add to it. Like

24:55 Speaker 13: you know, sometimes you hear, like what is missing when

24:57 Speaker 13: you're playing live that like you don't have the ability

24:59 Speaker 13: to to deal with like four people, you.

25:01 Speaker 10: Know what I mean?

25:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, Well I would imagine too, like like happened

25:05 Speaker 9: with Big Plans, you know, with the the ending, which

25:08 Speaker 9: which turned out to be kind of a surprise. I mean,

25:10 Speaker 9: does that happen with other songs too, Like when you're

25:12 Speaker 9: recording with somebody at the caliber of Eric Soter, I

25:14 Speaker 9: would imagine that that sometimes there are some some surprises

25:18 Speaker 9: where it's like, well, okay, this this is not what

25:21 Speaker 9: we thought it was going to be when we were

25:22 Speaker 9: playing it out at live shows. Now it's the song

25:25 Speaker 9: is like do you ever have something that's changed significantly?

25:28 Speaker 9: Or it's like, wow, this is really different.

25:30 Speaker 12: We've gotten We've just gotten better in the studio too,

25:33 Speaker 12: and being able to use our time more effectively, and yeah,

25:37 Speaker 12: just throw ideas around and not feel like if something

25:40 Speaker 12: gets put down like it has to stay like maybe

25:42 Speaker 12: we'll use it somehow or Yeah, surprises abound.

25:47 Speaker 10: There's little things that pop up brand new in the

25:49 Speaker 10: studio all the time. Like on the first track you

25:51 Speaker 10: played Big Plans, there's a guitar solo thing at the

25:55 Speaker 10: end with those bent guitar notes and stuff that Mike played. Yeah,

25:59 Speaker 10: and I don't think we had that going in to

26:01 Speaker 10: the studio at all or some version of it.

26:04 Speaker 13: No, not not even there was just kind of like

26:06 Speaker 13: like that intro and that ending of that song was

26:09 Speaker 13: something Trent had introduced because it was a tune that

26:11 Speaker 13: Jake had brought and kind of flushed out with like

26:13 Speaker 13: me and Johnny like just jamming at my house one day.

26:16 Speaker 13: So as Trent added these like this new intro in

26:19 Speaker 13: outro so to speak, you know, we brought it into

26:21 Speaker 13: the studio and then working with that guy James Palco

26:23 Speaker 13: that he mentioned earlier. He's just a great kind of

26:26 Speaker 13: producer mindset where like you know, multi instrumentalist kind of guy.

26:29 Speaker 13: So like I was like, you know, I had the

26:31 Speaker 13: ideas of something to do with Ben's but he really

26:33 Speaker 13: like sat with me and helped shape like this like

26:35 Speaker 13: the rhythmic aspect of that and like have it be

26:37 Speaker 13: like something that just like kind of fit well over

26:40 Speaker 13: you know, two dudes singing still to make it be

26:42 Speaker 13: like it's repetitive and it's like easy to kind of

26:45 Speaker 13: lock into, but it gives space for those like you know,

26:47 Speaker 13: Jake and Trent to sing and do their thing.

26:49 Speaker 8: Yeah, so yeah, oh excellent.

26:53 Speaker 9: And then so guys probably don't have any kind of

26:56 Speaker 9: an ETA yet right on when when you think you're

26:59 Speaker 9: gonna have that out or the new album.

27:01 Speaker 11: I think it'll be kind of like a slow drip

27:03 Speaker 11: of singles.

27:03 Speaker 13: Maybe do like or two or three singles throughout the year,

27:06 Speaker 13: maybe like you know, like late winter and then like

27:08 Speaker 13: mid spring or something, and then maybe one closer to

27:10 Speaker 13: the fall, and then like you know, aim for like

27:12 Speaker 13: maybe like October November.

27:13 Speaker 11: Okay, it seems it seems like a cozy time to drop.

27:16 Speaker 11: People are kind of hunkering back down, you know.

27:18 Speaker 12: Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, that's kind of the target we're

27:22 Speaker 12: shooting at, is like fall time.

27:24 Speaker 8: Okay.

27:24 Speaker 12: Yeah. With yeah, just like my said, a couple of

27:26 Speaker 12: singles throughout the year, Yeah, we have you know, it's

27:30 Speaker 12: in it's in progress right now. We have maybe like

27:32 Speaker 12: five or six days booked with Eric to finish it up,

27:36 Speaker 12: kind of spread out over the next couple of months.

27:37 Speaker 12: So okay, but you know, basically comes down to one

27:41 Speaker 12: day equals one song, okay, yeah, after you've already tracked drums. Yeah,

27:47 Speaker 12: so we may need a couple additional days, but yeah, yeah,

27:51 Speaker 12: but you know it's worth it because I think, you know,

27:53 Speaker 12: with with recording more and and and and I've done

27:56 Speaker 12: this in other bands too. It's like I hate the

27:57 Speaker 12: feeling of recording something and then a year later the

28:00 Speaker 12: back and be like damn, yeah, I wish we did

28:02 Speaker 12: this a little different. So, you know, I think everything

28:05 Speaker 12: is the stars have aligned nicely on this. I think

28:08 Speaker 12: we're all we're on the right mindset to make this

28:11 Speaker 12: like our best material.

28:12 Speaker 8: Yeah.

28:13 Speaker 10: Yeah.

28:15 Speaker 13: To tack on to what you were asking earlier about,

28:17 Speaker 13: like you know, you know, in terms of the end

28:19 Speaker 13: of big plants, having like the organ and having elements

28:22 Speaker 13: that like you know, are things that like we don't

28:24 Speaker 13: we don't yet have the ability to bring live and

28:26 Speaker 13: stuff like that. I think this, this new and up

28:28 Speaker 13: and up and coming album is like there's like a

28:31 Speaker 13: lot of that. Like there's a lot of like really

28:32 Speaker 13: cool elements that like we're you know, getting into or

28:35 Speaker 13: like dabbling with and like sounds and like textures and

28:38 Speaker 13: like you know, like synth sounds and things to really

28:40 Speaker 13: kind of like you know, just like elevate it. And

28:42 Speaker 13: as Trent was saying, like getting more comfortable in the

28:44 Speaker 13: studio and like kind of like understanding how we can

28:46 Speaker 13: utilize our time and really like before we even go

28:49 Speaker 13: in the studio, be like all right, like you know,

28:50 Speaker 13: sitting down and kind of using those drums that we

28:52 Speaker 13: got to like make demos out of and be like

28:54 Speaker 13: all right, like let's mess around with some extra some

28:56 Speaker 13: textural things on guitar or even like add some keys

28:59 Speaker 13: over it and stuff like that, like things that really

29:01 Speaker 13: like you know, being prepared for in the studio. Like, hey,

29:03 Speaker 13: it's gonna save you time and money, you know what

29:05 Speaker 13: I mean, Because like it's kind of like, you know,

29:07 Speaker 13: to go in the studio and just be like all right, look,

29:08 Speaker 13: let's a noodle on a synthesizer for like the next hour,

29:11 Speaker 13: and like you know, you know what I mean. It's

29:13 Speaker 13: just kind of like you know, it kind of like

29:14 Speaker 13: can be kind of productive at a certain point. Yeah,

29:16 Speaker 13: So it's so kind of like, you know, just being

29:17 Speaker 13: a little bit more like ready and like you know,

29:19 Speaker 13: like having ideas in mind and like exploring new sounds

29:22 Speaker 13: and stuff like that is definitely something that's coming up

29:24 Speaker 13: in the new album.

29:25 Speaker 8: Yeah.

29:25 Speaker 9: No, but as you as you refer to though being

29:27 Speaker 9: prepared is so important and because you don't want to

29:30 Speaker 9: be Uh. It's when you said, you know, noodling on

29:33 Speaker 9: a on a keyboard for an hour. It reminded me

29:35 Speaker 9: of if you ever watch any documentaries of bands, you know,

29:39 Speaker 9: famous bands in the recording studio like the Eagles or whomever.

29:42 Speaker 9: It always looks like and if it's a band that's

29:45 Speaker 9: super famous and they have millions and millions of dollars,

29:47 Speaker 9: they can afford to do it this way. But sometimes

29:50 Speaker 9: in these documentaries it looks like the band it looks

29:52 Speaker 9: like they're just writing the album in the studio as

29:55 Speaker 9: they're recording it, you know, and you kind of if

29:58 Speaker 9: you're the typical broke musician, you're sitting there watching, going

30:01 Speaker 9: how do they even how.

30:02 Speaker 8: Did they even do it this way? Yeah?

30:05 Speaker 9: You know, I said, you won't afford to just sit

30:08 Speaker 9: there and hey, I had an idea for a song

30:10 Speaker 9: today and they're already well into the album and it's like,

30:12 Speaker 9: so now they're just writing this new song.

30:15 Speaker 10: It's one of those things where we can do that,

30:16 Speaker 10: but it's within the constraints of we better figure the

30:19 Speaker 10: idea out in twenty minutes. If we don't it's time

30:22 Speaker 10: to move on. If we're going to abandon this marimba

30:24 Speaker 10: part now since we haven't.

30:26 Speaker 8: Figured it out, you know, yeah, exactly exactly, well we should.

30:30 Speaker 12: Uh, I'll let you guys pick.

30:32 Speaker 8: We should play another one. I'm dying here another one.

30:35 Speaker 8: Like I said, I love your sound.

30:37 Speaker 10: Just think on it.

30:38 Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean we could either jump back to like

30:40 Speaker 13: a like a big plans and do like a lay

30:42 Speaker 13: laying low, or like you know, I know, last time

30:44 Speaker 13: we were here we did the running thing.

30:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, that could be kind of a nice one.

30:48 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, laying laying low, lay low.

30:51 Speaker 8: We'll play that one next, all right.

30:53 Speaker 20: Uh.

30:53 Speaker 9: If you are just joining us Alive on Saturday morning,

30:56 Speaker 9: we have the band Slim Volume here with us Alive

30:59 Speaker 9: in studio. This is their third appearance on the show.

31:02 Speaker 9: By the way, while this is loading up, how long

31:04 Speaker 9: have you guys been around? You're kind of in the

31:07 Speaker 9: grand scheme of things. Still a fairly new band, right,

31:10 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and.

31:11 Speaker 10: A half years years is going on? Coming up to

31:14 Speaker 10: three soon? Yeah, twenty twenty two sometime is like I

31:17 Speaker 10: think formally when we started as a four piece band

31:21 Speaker 10: late twenty two? Does that sound correct to I'm looking

31:24 Speaker 10: to the other. To my historians, it's all a blur.

31:28 Speaker 12: And the official biography on our website twenty twenty three

31:32 Speaker 12: was the mark of Oka of the Start.

31:35 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, yeah, all right, Well let's give this a spin.

31:39 Speaker 8: This is Laying Low. The band is Slim Volume.

31:55 Speaker 7: Low.

31:58 Speaker 21: I'm looking over my shoulder somewhere I need to be,

32:07 Speaker 21: wonder where to go, where nobody knows me and I

32:17 Speaker 21: can make memories or the songs that.

32:21 Speaker 1: I say who.

32:51 Speaker 14: Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm around. Sometimes it takes on

33:01 Speaker 14: just to get a long. Sometimes it's me and sometimes

33:09 Speaker 14: it's you. Sometimes it's too late to call, but I

33:15 Speaker 14: want to.

33:18 Speaker 1: Pick up that phone, get on the ball.

33:24 Speaker 21: Somethings get old and sometimes some.

33:30 Speaker 4: Getting used to.

33:33 Speaker 6: I know what it's true.

34:39 Speaker 12: I got so lost in that one.

34:40 Speaker 8: I didn't even notice we were at the end.

34:44 Speaker 1: That is Laying Low.

34:45 Speaker 8: That is Slim Volume.

34:46 Speaker 12: That was a good choice.

34:47 Speaker 8: Wow, that's really good.

34:49 Speaker 10: That song.

34:49 Speaker 8: It's just it's shimmers. I don't know how else to

34:52 Speaker 8: put it. It shimmers everything about it. It's just so good.

34:55 Speaker 9: And the way I love the harmonies and the way

34:58 Speaker 9: the guitar sounds, everything about that is really good. Uh,

35:00 Speaker 9: we have a slim volume live in studio with us

35:03 Speaker 9: if you're just joining us on this uh this cold

35:05 Speaker 9: Saturday morning. But yeah, what a great track. I'm curious,

35:08 Speaker 9: is that one of the more challenging ones that you've recorded.

35:11 Speaker 9: It sounds like just sonically there's a lot going on

35:14 Speaker 9: there and with the vocals, and is that one of

35:17 Speaker 9: the more challenging ones or no.

35:19 Speaker 10: I mean it's a really good question.

35:21 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean there's sort of a simplexity about it. Yeah,

35:24 Speaker 12: it's yeah. I feel like that one was one that

35:26 Speaker 12: we had been working on for a really long time.

35:28 Speaker 10: Yeah, but by the time it came.

35:29 Speaker 12: To the studio, it felt pretty easy to get that

35:32 Speaker 12: one in. I feel like, at least for me.

35:34 Speaker 13: Yeah, really, yeah, that makes sense because like as I

35:37 Speaker 13: was listening to it, I was like, I was like,

35:38 Speaker 13: this song has been around for a long time. Okay,

35:41 Speaker 13: it's been it's been like, you know, kicking around and

35:43 Speaker 13: played a lot and played out live multiple times before

35:47 Speaker 13: it ever got recorded. So I kind of think it

35:48 Speaker 13: felt pretty organic for us going in the studio and

35:51 Speaker 13: kind of doing that, and then like that was like

35:53 Speaker 13: I feel like one of our first introductions into like

35:56 Speaker 13: adding like a lot of textual things to it, like

35:58 Speaker 13: because I don't know if you heard like this little

35:59 Speaker 13: key key's part in there and stuff, and there's some

36:02 Speaker 13: kind of like just nice little like guitar like little

36:04 Speaker 13: chimy things.

36:05 Speaker 10: That's what I mean.

36:06 Speaker 8: There's a lot going on in there.

36:07 Speaker 10: Yeah.

36:07 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, So I think that was our first kind

36:09 Speaker 13: of real like attempt at trying to give it like

36:11 Speaker 13: a its own kind of specific sound versus just what

36:14 Speaker 13: we do live, which is like easy to record, you

36:16 Speaker 13: know what I mean, But.

36:17 Speaker 11: That's just like what can we do to like elevate this?

36:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, Yeah, that's the thing. Sometimes you go record something

36:23 Speaker 12: in the studio the way that you perform it and

36:25 Speaker 12: rehearse it, and then you sit there listen back and

36:28 Speaker 12: you're like, wow, it sounds empty, you know, it's it's uh,

36:31 Speaker 12: it's just missing something.

36:32 Speaker 8: Yeah.

36:33 Speaker 12: So sometimes it's trying to figure out and that's probably

36:35 Speaker 12: the trickiest part on that one, just trying to figure out, like,

36:36 Speaker 12: all right, what's going to make this sound full and interesting?

36:39 Speaker 12: The whole time, I.

36:40 Speaker 13: Think we struggled, sorry you say we struggled the most

36:43 Speaker 13: with what Trent just said. I think on Running Thin,

36:46 Speaker 13: Like Running Thin was one of those things I think

36:48 Speaker 13: we literally re recorded like, like, what's on that the

36:52 Speaker 13: third time?

36:52 Speaker 12: Yeah?

36:53 Speaker 8: Oh really?

36:53 Speaker 11: Yeah.

36:55 Speaker 10: It's funny because when you asked, was it hard to

36:57 Speaker 10: we're challenging to record that? Mind shoal reaction was no.

37:01 Speaker 10: But then I was thinking back, and I'm pretty sure

37:04 Speaker 10: it's one of a few songs that we've recorded like

37:05 Speaker 10: two or three times. I think we did Laying Low before. Yeah,

37:08 Speaker 10: we did, and maybe felt like we got it at

37:11 Speaker 10: the time and then listened back. Running Thin is another

37:13 Speaker 10: one where we heard what we kind of did and

37:17 Speaker 10: heard the finished product and just sort of felt like,

37:19 Speaker 10: I don't know, that doesn't feel done yet, maybe yeah,

37:22 Speaker 10: And so yeah, it's one of those things we're fine.

37:25 Speaker 10: Like I think the shim shimmer is good. I'm glad

37:28 Speaker 10: that that comes across because I think that maybe was

37:31 Speaker 10: the missing ingredient in the sound.

37:32 Speaker 12: Of that part of that though too. The shimmer is

37:35 Speaker 12: so these both these EPs, we sent them out to

37:40 Speaker 12: Wild Feather Studios, which is in Nashville, which is the

37:43 Speaker 12: guy that Mike got connected with in a blues band.

37:47 Speaker 12: He used the plant and this guy's are really good

37:50 Speaker 12: mixing engineer. So Running Laying Low what we just listened to.

37:56 Speaker 12: That was I think the only song of the eight

37:58 Speaker 12: that he mixed that came back first try, Like that

38:02 Speaker 12: was just the mix, okay, And he added some of

38:05 Speaker 12: those shimmery elements, so there's some like crystallization reverb in

38:08 Speaker 12: the vocals that really makes it blend. Yeah, he said

38:12 Speaker 12: it reminded him of Oasis. Yeah, and I think and

38:15 Speaker 12: I think that's where he pushed the mix a little bit,

38:17 Speaker 12: which I don't know if I can really attest.

38:19 Speaker 10: It's funny because I was thinking of that while we

38:22 Speaker 10: were listening to just Now, and I was like, this

38:23 Speaker 10: definitely sounds like Oasis this song. And that's what's funny

38:26 Speaker 10: about going into the studio or going through the whole

38:28 Speaker 10: mixing and mastering processes. I never thought that this song

38:33 Speaker 10: sounds like Oasis one time until it was to Zach

38:37 Speaker 10: who kind of turned it a little bit into an

38:40 Speaker 10: Oasis sign. Now I definitely hear it with the way

38:42 Speaker 10: the acoustic sounds and shimmers, to use your word again.

38:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely very cool.

38:49 Speaker 9: We have a slim volume here with us if you

38:50 Speaker 9: are just joining us talking with the guys, and do

38:54 Speaker 9: you have how many how many songs?

38:56 Speaker 8: As a band, do you have how many original songs

38:58 Speaker 8: at this point?

38:59 Speaker 13: I think least on Spotify there's like seventeen okay, something

39:03 Speaker 13: like that, and then the you know, but plus plus

39:06 Speaker 13: the ten of the album that are like you know,

39:08 Speaker 13: just being recorded that are like you know, quote unquote done, yeah,

39:11 Speaker 13: and then like beyond that, like we have this folded,

39:13 Speaker 13: it's probably got like another like fifteen you know, like yeah,

39:16 Speaker 13: things that are like you know, if not half done,

39:19 Speaker 13: pretty close to being done.

39:20 Speaker 11: And then like you know, it's like Jake was saying,

39:22 Speaker 11: it's like.

39:23 Speaker 13: Right when you feel like you're caught up, you're like

39:24 Speaker 13: all right, like no, we're not right, right, Yeah, time

39:27 Speaker 13: to keep going and stuff, which is it's like a

39:28 Speaker 13: great like like problem to have, you know, it's like

39:31 Speaker 13: not a problem. It's like it's a blessing to have

39:33 Speaker 13: so much ideas kicking around and stuff like that.

39:35 Speaker 11: But it can't get a little overwhelming if you don't

39:37 Speaker 11: keep up with it.

39:38 Speaker 10: Yeah.

39:38 Speaker 9: Yeah, but you have a lot of music for a

39:40 Speaker 9: band that's you know, again really hasn't been around that long.

39:43 Speaker 9: You know, You've you've got a lot of You've got

39:44 Speaker 9: a lot of music. Do you guys do any covers

39:46 Speaker 9: when you play live, do you Oh, yeah, what we do?

39:49 Speaker 12: Yeah, some of the gigs we play just require, you know,

39:52 Speaker 12: having cover material, and that's a constant kind of struggle

39:55 Speaker 12: of feeling like all right, we got we got enough

39:58 Speaker 12: cover material now, and then it's like, well, no, we don't,

40:01 Speaker 12: because like these five songs don't really feel is good

40:03 Speaker 12: anymore to play, and so it's always kind of like

40:06 Speaker 12: mixing new ones in.

40:07 Speaker 8: Yeah.

40:07 Speaker 12: But I mean, yeah, we cover everything from you know,

40:10 Speaker 12: the Beatles to we got a Kings of Leon cover strokes.

40:14 Speaker 12: I mean, we you know, some early two thousand stuff,

40:17 Speaker 12: like a lot of classic rock stuff. But it's selective too.

40:22 Speaker 12: It's it's not like I don't know, we don't really

40:25 Speaker 12: just go play anything.

40:26 Speaker 10: Yeah, we don't have much metal in the repertoire right juncture. Yeah,

40:31 Speaker 10: we like to.

40:31 Speaker 13: Fel like we pick things that kind of like like

40:33 Speaker 13: make sense sonically, they like kind of fit the vibe

40:35 Speaker 13: of what we do. Yeah, sometimes its kind of nice

40:38 Speaker 13: to switch it up with different things, like you're saying,

40:40 Speaker 13: like just generationally speaking, from like the Beatles to like

40:43 Speaker 13: in Beach Boys to doing like you know, more of

40:45 Speaker 13: a modern sonic death cab for QT.

40:48 Speaker 10: Cover or whatever.

40:49 Speaker 13: It is, like you know, try and like you know,

40:51 Speaker 13: appeal to all ears out there in the crowd kind

40:53 Speaker 13: of thing.

40:53 Speaker 12: Yeah, it's pretty much an impossible task to appeal to

40:58 Speaker 12: everybody at every gig of course. Yeah. And it's just

41:02 Speaker 12: like you know, one gig to the next, things we

41:04 Speaker 12: think are gonna work well don't, and things we don't

41:06 Speaker 12: aren't sure about like work great. Yeah, you know, It's

41:09 Speaker 12: it's really funny that way, like just just something that

41:12 Speaker 12: comes to minds like the Jackson Brown.

41:13 Speaker 10: Song Somebody's Baby.

41:15 Speaker 12: Somebody's Baby. I feel like that crushes like everywhere, no

41:18 Speaker 12: matter where, or it's a great song. It's a great song.

41:22 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's the platonic mean of a song. People like it.

41:26 Speaker 12: So it's just it's just trying to find about thirty

41:30 Speaker 12: songs like that that we can be tight on.

41:33 Speaker 13: We we've been doing like a Sister Golden Hair. Yeah,

41:37 Speaker 13: that's just an awesome tune. Like, yeah, I think we

41:39 Speaker 13: also like to pick songs that like we genuinely.

41:41 Speaker 11: Like love to play, you know what I mean.

41:42 Speaker 13: Like it's just kind of makes it like more genuine

41:45 Speaker 13: as a player, Like you know, if you just kind

41:46 Speaker 13: of like you really get into it and you just

41:47 Speaker 13: kind of like, you know, you really do do your

41:49 Speaker 13: diligence to learn all the parts correctly and stuff like that,

41:51 Speaker 13: and like, you know, doing the slide over sister Golden Hair,

41:54 Speaker 13: it's just like, you know, like that must that's great,

41:56 Speaker 13: you know what I mean, Like you see people get

41:57 Speaker 13: pumped up about it.

41:58 Speaker 11: It's just like, yeah, who does love that song?

42:00 Speaker 8: I mean, right, yeah.

42:03 Speaker 9: Do you do any covers that are kind of obscure

42:04 Speaker 9: that not everyone in the audience necessarily realizes is the cover?

42:08 Speaker 10: Well, we do a cover of this song called Sin

42:11 Speaker 10: City by the Flying Burrito Brothers, who was Graham Parson's

42:15 Speaker 10: band from back in the sixties. And the reason I

42:18 Speaker 10: mentioned that song is like, it's not I don't feel

42:19 Speaker 10: like it's that well known or in the mainstream. Really,

42:22 Speaker 10: it's one of those old kind of country folky songs

42:24 Speaker 10: that like, once you hear it feels like you've heard

42:26 Speaker 10: it or a song like it many times. Okay, And

42:28 Speaker 10: we recently recorded a cover for that that's coming out

42:31 Speaker 10: on a like a country music compilation. Oh really soon.

42:36 Speaker 12: I have no idea when.

42:37 Speaker 10: We don't know exactly when, but it'll be out and

42:39 Speaker 10: so that maybe that's something we can listen to on

42:41 Speaker 10: here sometime too.

42:42 Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, yeah, Yeah, Now how did you how did

42:45 Speaker 9: you get the opportunity.

42:45 Speaker 12: To do that, to be a part of that compet

42:47 Speaker 12: that was actually so modern? Fools? Who has the album released?

42:50 Speaker 12: Shown a couple of weeks that we're playing it was

42:52 Speaker 12: a member from that band I was putting it together

42:55 Speaker 12: and just reached out to us. Oh wow, Yeah, I'm

42:59 Speaker 12: not sure really any more details than that, honestly.

43:02 Speaker 8: Did did Did they let you pick the cover you

43:05 Speaker 8: want to do?

43:05 Speaker 10: Or yeah? The idea was out law Country also you

43:09 Speaker 10: know at Chris Christoffers and Willie Nelson anything in that? Yeah?

43:14 Speaker 8: Real, Have you guys ever been on Rob show? Granted

43:16 Speaker 8: state of mind?

43:18 Speaker 12: I have as an individual, like as a as myself.

43:21 Speaker 10: Okay, okay, as a political candidate.

43:25 Speaker 9: No, No, I was just curious because when you said

43:27 Speaker 9: out lack Country, my first thought was a Rob Rob

43:29 Speaker 9: has a lot of bands on his show.

43:31 Speaker 8: Does that you guys? You guys would be great on

43:33 Speaker 8: Rob show too?

43:34 Speaker 12: Yeah? I think it's not scheduled, but yeah, I got

43:38 Speaker 12: I met Rob just like a few months ago. Yeah,

43:41 Speaker 12: I went to his open mic.

43:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, pork City.

43:44 Speaker 12: Yeah, and I had never come across him, and I

43:46 Speaker 12: was mind blown because we just know we both know

43:49 Speaker 12: like the same mutual people. Yeah, yeah, I couldn't believe

43:51 Speaker 12: that we had never crossed past. Yeah. But the band

43:53 Speaker 12: will definitely be on his show at some point.

43:55 Speaker 8: Yeah. And have you guys played at Pemworks City Limits.

43:58 Speaker 12: I played there for like a solo show, Okay, but yeah,

44:02 Speaker 12: he wants to have us Yeah, yeah, good, Yeah.

44:03 Speaker 8: I can imagine that. Yeah, that's such a that's such

44:05 Speaker 8: a cool room to Rob is.

44:07 Speaker 9: Rob is doing amazing things and of course a plug

44:10 Speaker 9: for a show he scranted State of Mind Fridays at

44:12 Speaker 9: six pm right here at w M and H. So yeah,

44:14 Speaker 9: he does a he does a lot for the scene.

44:17 Speaker 15: Now.

44:18 Speaker 9: That's cool though about the country compilation, but you don't

44:20 Speaker 9: know when it's gonna be out sometime sometime this year

44:22 Speaker 9: though it was supposed to.

44:23 Speaker 12: Like be out now. And I think with anything like that,

44:26 Speaker 12: when you have ten different bands all submitting you, yeah,

44:29 Speaker 12: gets a little delayed.

44:30 Speaker 10: Someone is in the precarious position of having to email

44:33 Speaker 10: and track down ten different musicians right or flighty on

44:37 Speaker 10: the best of so, no, I can I.

44:41 Speaker 9: Can see where that would where that would be the case.

44:43 Speaker 9: Now what about uh so is the show of the seventeenth?

44:46 Speaker 9: Is that the next show you guys are playing? Yeah,

44:49 Speaker 9: and then after that do you have.

44:52 Speaker 8: Like what what's what's winter like for in terms of

44:56 Speaker 8: live shows? Is are you gonna be kind of active?

44:58 Speaker 12: Or yeah, we'll be at two Ship a couple of times, Okay,

45:02 Speaker 12: we'll be at Do we have a strange brew book?

45:05 Speaker 11: No, I don't think there's any strange strange.

45:07 Speaker 10: Two Shares on Union Street in Manchester for those who

45:10 Speaker 10: don't know, it's a brewery. Yeah, worth checking out with

45:12 Speaker 10: us or without because it's yeah, they make good local beer.

45:15 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean slim Volume band dot com.

45:18 Speaker 12: You know, it's got all the details for anyone who

45:20 Speaker 12: wants to track us down. But yeah, yeah, I mean

45:24 Speaker 12: it's funny, like, you know, we got ten or twelve

45:26 Speaker 12: gigs book. I can't recall them off the top of

45:28 Speaker 12: my head.

45:29 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, No, it sounds like you're off to a

45:30 Speaker 9: strong start for the new year. I always asked too,

45:32 Speaker 9: because you know a lot of bands they kind of

45:33 Speaker 9: slow down in winter, or they focused on writing and

45:36 Speaker 9: recording and then you know, I see some I know

45:40 Speaker 9: bands who only want to really be active during the summer.

45:44 Speaker 10: But oh, another one that just comes to mind, Matt,

45:47 Speaker 10: now that you say it is we're playing Auspicious Brew

45:49 Speaker 10: in Dover in February. I believe that's on the fifteenth. Okay,

45:53 Speaker 10: that's with Kara Holbert Howe as a singer songwriter from

45:56 Speaker 10: the Sea Coast area. And then tin Fish is another

45:59 Speaker 10: band from out in the kind of Portsmouth Dover area.

46:02 Speaker 10: So that's gonna be a fun one.

46:03 Speaker 8: Oh, very good, very good.

46:04 Speaker 9: Yeah, And do you guys try to play a lot

46:06 Speaker 9: of shows on the Sea coast because I would imagine

46:08 Speaker 9: what you know, with the U.

46:09 Speaker 8: N H crowd and everything, you know, you guys would

46:11 Speaker 8: be very well received.

46:13 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's definitely a different kind of scene and vibe

46:18 Speaker 10: on the Sea coast. So yeah, I mean we try

46:20 Speaker 10: to get out there. We've played Dover and Portsmouth a

46:22 Speaker 10: number of times. The press room. You know that some

46:25 Speaker 10: of these venues that they have great sound there, you know.

46:27 Speaker 8: So excellent. Yeah, yeah, very good, very good.

46:30 Speaker 9: Well, guys, we are approaching the top of the hour,

46:33 Speaker 9: so I'll again I'll let you pick what we will

46:37 Speaker 9: play to end the segment today. Whatever, whatever you guys

46:43 Speaker 9: want to go with I've certainly enjoyed everything that you've

46:45 Speaker 9: chosen so far.

46:46 Speaker 13: You want to like Kpol just for kind of like

46:49 Speaker 13: you know S's and G's on that one.

46:53 Speaker 12: That sounds good, that's going to be on the back

46:55 Speaker 12: to you.

46:56 Speaker 8: You'll go back to that one.

46:58 Speaker 10: So this track will be different in that you will

47:00 Speaker 10: not hear my voice nor we hear Trent's voice.

47:02 Speaker 11: Yeah, your instrumental.

47:04 Speaker 8: Yeah, I actually had listened to this one on on

47:06 Speaker 8: band camp and yeah, it's fun. It's fun. Uh So,

47:10 Speaker 8: Slim Volume guys, thank you again so much. And slim

47:13 Speaker 8: Volume dot com is.

47:14 Speaker 12: The web sit Slim Volume band.

47:15 Speaker 9: Oh, slim Volume Band dot com, thank you very very good.

47:19 Speaker 9: And Jenny before we go to you want to plug

47:22 Speaker 9: your website.

47:23 Speaker 22: Of course you can check me out in my creativity

47:26 Speaker 22: projects at Gencoffee dot com.

47:28 Speaker 10: J E N N C O F F e I

47:30 Speaker 10: dot com.

47:31 Speaker 9: And by the way, uh also keep an eye on

47:34 Speaker 9: you know you've got your you've been doing a lot

47:36 Speaker 9: of media appearances and you're about to be on a

47:39 Speaker 9: pretty big podcast.

47:40 Speaker 1: Yeah.

47:40 Speaker 8: Should we should we mention.

47:42 Speaker 12: Which one status coup you guys know Status cup?

47:46 Speaker 8: Well you will.

47:48 Speaker 22: Baby, yes, we're taping tomorrow and I don't know the

47:52 Speaker 22: exact date.

47:53 Speaker 8: This, this one's a big deal. So very proud of

47:55 Speaker 8: very proud of you.

47:57 Speaker 11: Wall Street Journal was pretty big.

47:58 Speaker 12: But that was pretty great. That was BBC. That was huge.

48:02 Speaker 12: I was like shocked us going through the Facebook band

48:05 Speaker 12: feed and I saw you re shared that.

48:06 Speaker 22: I was like, well, no, BBC, yeah, yep, yep, causing

48:11 Speaker 22: a little trouble here on there.

48:13 Speaker 9: As always, we need to have me any other way,

48:15 Speaker 9: we need a good trouble. Thank you for everyone who

48:17 Speaker 9: joined us today. Of course doctor No and that was awesome. Yes,

48:21 Speaker 9: Doctor No is wonderful and scarecrow Hill and of course

48:24 Speaker 9: Slim Volume guys, thank you again. Thank you matt Us

48:28 Speaker 9: absolutely and we will close with this u k PO seven.

48:31 Speaker 9: This is Slim Volume.

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52:23 Speaker 4: To hear and me waiting.

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53:06 Speaker 1: Suits, and it feels like everything changes.

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