DOWN - Purple EP Pre-Order Available, “We Didn’t Want It To Be Perfect”
August 23, 2012, 11 years ago
On September 18th, DOWN will release Down IV Part I – The Purple EP; an Amazon pre-order is available below.
During a recent chat with Toby Cook of The Quietus, guitarist Kirk Windstein commented: “People are scratching and clawing to make a fucking dime these days in the music world, so I think this is a good approach to make the product cheap to buy.
You don’t get the big budgets to record with anymore and there’s just no sense in putting out a 13/14 song album – that takes you forever to write – and for nobody to buy it because they can get it for free or listen to it for free on Spotify.”
As for the content of the new EP, Windstein says that the group have attempted to capture the rawer sounds of their 1995 debut NOLA. “We didn’t want it to be perfect,” he said. “Too many bands sound too perfect now, too polished; it’s too fixed on Pro Tools, every fucking kick drum is perfectly put on the grid and everybody plays to a click track. We wanted to be raw and old school – we wanted it to sound like the original NOLA demos.”
To read the interview in its entirety, click here.
Down IV Part I – The Purple EP will feature the following six songs:
'Levitation'
'Witchtripper'
'The Misfortune Teller'
'The Curse Is A Lie'
'Open Coffins'
'This Work Is Timeless'
Listen to 'Witchtripper' and 'The Misfortune Teller' now:
