The Story So Far have announced that they're currently at The Panda Studios working on their sophomore full-length album, with New Found Glory's Steve Klein on producing duties. In a new interview, bassist Kelen Carpener discusses the album's progress, which is scheduled for an early-2013 release on Pure Noise Records. Click the Read More… link to read an excerpt.
You spent some time demoing and now you’re now starting to lay down the final versions of the album.
Yeah, we came into the studio with 13 songs to have some wiggle room. We are just starting drums, but we’re even going to write some more material while we’re recording and try to have something else in case we want to cut back on something or a b-side or something.
You’ve done all of The Story So Far’s material with Sam Pura at Panda Studios and you’re sticking with Pure Noise for the release. Is there a vibe that just works with this group so you “keep it in the family” sort of?
We are all in such a close vicinity to each other and it’s the team we’ve worked with since we started, so it’s just that the functionality of it all and we all trust each other, so we have this little network to help our friends out and they can help out. We know from our experiences recording with Sam [that it works] and Jake [Round, Pure Noise Records owner] is a very trustworthy guy who is in it for the right reasons. He’s not just trying to milk us. Even our booking agent is our friend. In some way, everyone we work with is from our hometown.
Did you receive offers to go elsewhere?
Yeah, we just decided that it wasn’t for us. It’s kind of a weird state for record labels and we thought what we had going was a good thing and there’s a lot of capacity with the internet to do a lot of things that record labels used to do, so we took the security of our friends than having a little more money from another label.
So with a full album of demos, where is the band headed sonically?
They sound like us. We haven’t diverged too far away. We’re just trying to see what was good about the last record and enhance it. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. Looking at each part is something very important to us. We don’t try to put anything in a song that’s filler. At the root of it, we’re sort of a punk band, so if there’s no need for a part, we don’t put it there.
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