And to draw the strength that he would have had having a physical father from the music. I know from an autobiographical aspect, Toby’s father died when he was three, so a lot of lessons he didn’t have a father to teach to him, he was able to get through a lot of the bands he was listening to at the time. Is that about musical communities and having them as adopted families growing up?Īdam: Yeah. One song I love on the record is ‘Father Figure’.
We felt kind of like little kids at play. And that’s a big reason the record sounds like that, because we were excited to make it. That’s also one of the side benefits of taking so long to make a record because there’s a level of excitement and energy that comes when something is not routine. It’s got that same energy, that same quality of penmanship.Īdam: Thank you very much. This album could have come out a year after Nothing To Prove.
Well, musically it doesn’t sound like you guys missed a beat. I mean some of the songs were from demos that were done in 2012 or 13, four of them were from that, but everything else was written for this record, or presented to the band as finished pieces for this record. So were most of the songs fairly recently written?Īdam: Yeah. But once we decided to do it, it took us three months to actually have a record in the can. We needed to wait for Chad (Gilbert, producer) to have availability as well as our engineer. So we decided that we wanted to take our time and make a record we could really be proud of. So things are going well and we know if we make a record that doesn’t stand up to Nothing To Prove, at this stage in the game, it’s kind of a bad look. I mean it took us seven years after Go to get to Nothing To Prove. And, to be completely honest, there’s a certain amount of performance anxiety there. We were always playing shows, we always seemed to have a good amount of momentum moving forward. The first one is we were always busy and we never felt pressure to go in the studio. I guess the best place to start is to ask the most obvious question: Why seven years since your last studio album?Īdam: There’s a few reasons for that. READ MORE ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & MORE FREE
It’s filled with the same brand of high energy, catchy, positive punk rock the band is known for.Īdam Blake, who has been the band’s bassist since 1997, spoke to us about the new record, the history of the band and the state of music in 2015. And although their musical output has slowed down considerably in the last 15 years, when they do release a record, it’s usually well worth the wait.ħ years on from their last album of new music Nothing To Prove, Use Your Voice is H2O’s sixth studio album (not including 2011’s covers album Don’t Forget Your Roots). Playing a high energy form of melodic hardcore, H2O are an institution in punk rock.
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