Remember what you liked about the heavy bands with amazing vocal layers? Remember what you liked about the breakdowns, and then the integration of synthesizers and ridiculous production?
Introducing So Long Safety! An Australian band that has accomplished the former.
If you like your post hardcore, and you love your melody, then this is the band for you. Most of the bands I conduct interviews or reviews for come from an entirely different genre - but when you look at the crossovers, that is, the similarities or relevant influences, you can expand your horizons ten fold. I used to listen to a vast array of heavy bands when I was younger, and So Long Safety! is one that I can still appreciate.
I'm a pushover for a good beat, loud guitar and synth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NKkIim0UI
'You'll Never Beat Me, I'm Hydrodynamically Designed'
This is a really innovative video - and a kick in the balls song. The keys player, Jamal Sabet, really knows how to complement everyone else in the band, he doesn't get in the way, and like a lot of other bands - doesn't get lost under the rest. A good engineer, a good band, some catchy melodies - and you've got So Long Safety!.
Here's the interview section of the review for a bit of insight,
1. What brought the band together? how did you all meet - what does the band name mean?
- Like pretty much any band we started out because Coops and Joel were best pals in high school and thought it would be cool to start a band. Unfortunately it was of the screamo hardcore variety of the time, and then through various name changes and line up changes the band came to what and who we are today. The name doesnt particularly hold any special meaning it was the name of a song we once had, coops was ripping off thrice's album name; illusion of safety (coops worships them), and yeah at the time we needed a new name and thought that so long safety wasnt too bad. In hindsight we wish we had gone with something cooler.
2. Are you planning to build a solid fan base and long career with many albums a long the way? how is the band getting along (be as honest as possible). What does the future look like?
Answering these types of questions with out sounding pretentious is pretty hard to do. Obviously it would be in all of our dreams to build this band into a career with many albums along the way. However our plan at the moment is to play shows and build up a lot of experience, build a fan base up, have a buttload of fun and in a few months time spend a lot of time and money on a really high quality EP which will hopefully get some labels interested in us. But yeah at the present time, playing awesome shows is our main focus. In terms of how we are getting along, we're 6 bestfriends. We fight and we all have various tastes in music and life, but its ideally the same which is what is the most crucial thing.
3. What defining moments have you had so far - moments that you can all relate to as being amazing - during the writing process, promotions, big breaks etc.
ummm, not really sure. spending time with closure in moscow and having them stay at our house was wicked...Its pretty hard to isolate a particular time as of yet that has been really amazing, man, the band has its highs and lows but i guess we're still hoping that something comes along that makes us all sit back and really feel amazed.
4. Where did you record, home studio or major studio?
We recorded our EP; Bear in mind im a lion, at chartsong studios up in Brissy last year. The production was amazing, the guy; Stuart Stuart (yeah his first and last name are the same) knew his stuff, but once we had recorded it all, we all kinda just had this same idea that the music wasnt what we wanted to be making, yeah it was fun and pop, but we kinda wanted to make it more. And it sucks that its so hard to be in this sort of genre where if you experiment a little with song structure and sounds that you're pretty much void from any radio station except triple J, which pretty much only focuses on Indy and hardcore (dont get me wrong id much rather listen to that then the crap on other stations). So anyway, our songs that are up on our myspace now were recorded in Sydney around March at Electric Sun Studios, they are a rad bunch of dudes. I think pretty much every band in NSW now uses them, and you'd be stupid not too.
Sweet.
http://www.myspace.com/solongsafety
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