Do you tend to come up with all of them?Ĭooper: Yes, those are all in-house. HMS: You have some very entertaining concepts in some of these videos, like time running backwards, or a party with decadent vampires. We shot that in a day and edited it really quick. That was the whole concept and that was the whole video. The very first video that we did was just a quick idea of having a camera in the back of a car and we would be running towards the car. When Covid happened, that did change our plans a bit. Mike Gattshall: When we started doing the single per month, part of the plan was to include videos, so we made plans based on being able to do that within one month. HMS: Do you tend to think towards videos as a band, or was that a new goal in 2020? Is it something you get super-involved in? There are a lot of songs that we have that we are working on, so for the album we chose our top ten that also felt like that they would work together.
I think we honed in on our sound a little more throughout this process, too, which makes the album more cohesive.
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We mix and get songs to a really good spot, then we give it to a professional who we know who can turn it into that crispy, clean sound that we were going for. It was really busy because we actually record everything ourselves at the studio that I have at my house. We added instruments and sounds, for example. That must have kept you pretty busy.īrandon Valerino: That definitely kept us busy, and for some of the songs we’d already released, we re-recorded and remixed some things, so hearing the album actually is a brand-new experience. HMS: That’s a very ambitious plan to release on that schedule. The album came about after that, so when we decided to do an album, we decided to place some singles on an album with new materials. Is that how you normally work?Ĭooper Bombadil: In 2020, we made a plan to release one single or music video every month. Hannah Means-Shannon: I was pretty interested to find that you’ve been releasing singles and videos for quite a while leading up to the album release. I spoke with Cooper, Brandon, and Mike about those developments and the ideas behind Kali Yuga Kama Sutra. One of the less obvious stories behind the album is the way in which these songs represent a new era of collaboration in songwriting for the band, but it may well be that the organic development of sounds and ideas is a big part of what makes these songs feel so balanced and engaging. The upshot was that they ended up with plenty of material, and created an album that addresses some of the big ideas that interest them most, the relationships between opposites in this world and our perceptions of the lighter and darker elements of life.Ī related subject that interests the whole band including frontman Cooper Bombadil, bassist and keyboardist Brandon Valerino, and drummer Mike Gattshall, is horror tradition, and they handle that with humorous, as well as more sinister effect, on the album. The ambitious schedule actually ended up being extremely helpful to them in keeping them creative during a very chaotic time in the world.
The album represents the culmination of many months of work that commenced back in early 2020 when they made a plan to start releasing a single or a video every month. California-based Psych-Rock band Westerner are releasing their album Kali Yuga Kama Sutra on August 19, 2022, via Coconut Spaceship Records, and will also be hosting a release show at L.A.’s School Night on August 22nd.
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