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01) Turn The Halos (4min, 13sec)
-Produced by: Mark Custido
Recorded at The La La Studio in Old Saybrook, CT, from January 2007 until May 2007. This is doublethink's first full-length record, released independently in the summer of 2007. All music copyright TOL Productions. |
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This album is basically a labor of over a year of writing and gigging from late 2005 to late 2006. By the time we had finished and released Feeler, a five-song EP, late 2005, we had already written a slew of songs, some of which appear on this record. The recording sessions for Feeler were trying at best, so when we decided we wanted to make a full album we had a hard time getting excited for it because we knew that if making a five-song EP was a draining ordeal, making a full-length was going to be much more difficult. At this point though, we had set up our own make-shift recording studio (playfully called The La La) and were churning out demos that sounded like they had real potential. Tyler came up with the idea of making a whole album ourselves in our own studio, unpressured by things like time, money, and people telling us how our band should sound and play. So we attacked each song in demo form first, figuring out how to get our studio to sound the best and how to make each song sound its best using the pretty bare-bones equipment we have. Using some time-tested as well as some radical techniques we worked long and hard fine-tuning every part of the album, messing up innumerable times on the way. We finally had a finished product that we could proudly say sounded great about 5 months after we started tracking. Naming the album Creating The Creator seemed appropriate on many levels. In one respect it is a title for us as a band, as we were "created" out of nothing by the bands we love. If it weren't for Billy Corgan's sour wail, Noel Gallagher's wall-of-sound, Pete Townshend's destructiveness, or Peter Gabriel's fearlessness, we would not be the band we are today. It also is a summation of much of the album's lyrical themes, which have to do with the alienation, frustration, and consequent analyzation of the religious state of humanity today, and the "creator" who fashioned it all. Most importantly though, Creating The Creator is about the love of music and expression, and how one person's creation, no matter how small, inspires and creates much more than one thinks. It would be impossible to jot down here everything that went into making this album since it's taken up so much of our lives for the past half-year. We can only hope that listeners will be able to feel how much love, hate, fun, pain, destruction, and gallons of sweat we put into this record. Hopefully you'll listen and enjoy our little creation. scott brown (June, 2007) |