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A year and a half after the release of their acclaimed sophomore album Horror Vacui, I Was Totally Destroying It returns with new management, a new album and without jobs.
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All of which was by intention.
“We decided we wanted to give it a real try for a couple years, see what happens,” front man John Booker explained. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do — be full-time with it — and this is the band to do it with as far as any bands I’ve been in.”
By making the band the members’ primary focus, I Was Totally Destroying It has been able to focus more on touring and recording, going so far as to release two completely new albums in a single year.
“We’ve always been recording more than a lot of bands,” Booker said.
“We’re kicking it up another notch,” front woman Rachel Hirsh added. “We just got back from tour, and then we’re here for three weeks to scrape some money up for ourselves and take a break. And then we’re out to Minneapolis to record another album.”
The first of these albums, Preludes, saw a release through Greyday Records April 12. A more polished and mature album than 2007′s self-titled release or even 2009′s Horror Vacui, Preludes finds IWTDI fine tuning songs Booker has kept tucked away in his back pocket for the last six years.
“A lot of the songs on Preludes were older ones that I brought into the band at one point and then we forgot about, and a lot of stuff that I just had and never brought in from the last six years,” Booker said.
Hirsh explained the album started with 10 tracks that Booker wanted to record and release as a solo artist.
“I really liked those songs and wanted Destroying It to keep them,” Hirsh recalled. “So he brought them to band practice and we tried to find ways to make them us — where we are now — not what John had originally intended for those songs to sound like.”
The result is an album that looks forward to the band’s second release of the year, Vexations.
“It’s a good taste of where we’re about to go,” Hirsh said of Preludes.
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.
“We were always planning to go make this album up in Minneapolis, and the other one that just came out just happened upon us,” Booker said. “Last year we hit a stride and got 24 songs that we were like, ‘These could come out in some form.’”
He added, “As a musician, I want to put out as much music as possible.”
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