Tracked & Covered: IWTDI Announces First Of 2 New Albums In 2011

Back in January of 2010, I Was Totally Destroying It began the process of documenting the writing and demoing of a new album. In doing so, the band provided often humorous and sometimes endearing updates from the studio in the form of vlogs.

Only a year later, the process has given way to two new albums rather than just one — Preludes, which is set to drop in April, and Vexations, which will be released later this year.

“I knew the story would snake out and lose focus and there would be distractions but yet it would all twirl back around into something much more concrete and viable — and here we are,” singer and guitarist John Booker said. “We have a finished album that we had no idea we’d be making. It’s called Preludes and it’s out April 12, 2011 on Greyday Records.”

Originally intended as a solo album from Booker, Preludes was reworked as an IWTDI album at the urging of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Hirsh.

“For a long time we didn’t even think we’d record this batch of songs that we’re recording because we’d been writing songs for another album,” Hirsh said.

She recalled, “John came up to me and said, ‘Hey, what would you think if I told you that I wanted to record a solo album? Because I have all of these songs that I don’t think would really fit for I Was Totally Destroying It.’”

“I got really mad at him because I really like all of the songs he was referencing. I said, ‘Dude, I really like these songs and I want to play these songs. Why don’t just make them Destroying It songs?’”

The album began as 35 tracks penned by Booker, and the band collaborated to pick out the 10 songs that should be reworked as I Was Totally Destroying It cuts.

“[T]hey wrote down their favorites and they took notes, saying, ‘Oh, I like this chorus part especially,’ and stuff like that,” Booker explained. “I actually ranked 1 to 10 their top rankings and those were the songs we picked out to bring in and work on as a band.”

While the tracks were conceptualized by Booker, Hirsh took the lead in penning most of the lyrics that would accompany Booker’s music.

“I wrote a lot of these lyrics because he, for some reason, had horrible writers block when it came to these songs,” Hirsh said.

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As for Vexations, Booker said it is the album that the band had intended to write when they began the process more than a year ago. That album will be recorded in Minneapolis with Motion City Soundtrack’s Josh Cain producing and Ed Ackerson engineering at Flowers Studio.

“I hate to get ahead of myself and be further self-indulgent, but Preludes is the best album we’ve recorded to date and we already can tell that Vexations is the best collection of songs we’ve ever assembled,” Booker said.

Preludes is available for pre-order through Greyday Records, while Vexations is currently only available for pre-order as a part of subscription package that includes the album, Preludes, the Get Big 7-inch and numerous other IWTD goodies.

Coming up, IWTDI will perform a special acoustic show at Deep South The Bar in Raleigh on Feb. 17. To add this show to your mobile calendar, scan the QR Code with your mobile device below.

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