Remember my band Dead Drift? Well, since live shows are pretty much done until the jack ass pieces of shit can get their heads out of Trump's asshole and acknowledge that there's actually a pandemic and people are dying and stop having weddings and house parties and wear a god damn mask when they're going places...and... well you get the idea..we hadn't seen each other, had band practice or played a show since like February. We decided back in March that we could try to record the newest batch of songs we'd just written before the shutdown. So while keeping safe and socially distancing we used the equipment we happened to have at our houses when we got stuck inside. We practice at Travis's but I had my drums stored at home at the time luckily. So I set up in my garage and recorded using my old cellphone and my current one while listening back on another phone with headphones. Benji sent me some tracks without drums I could play along too. I mixed the audio files into one good track for each song using Audacity. (free audio software) Travis did something similar but with my drum recordings added and then Benji. Emailing sound files back and forth trying to get the mix how we liked. It took a couple months but we finally had something we all thought was pretty good considering the way we did it. None of us are really experienced engineers or recording professionals so we did the best we could.
Benji came up with the album name and album art concept which is pretty appropriate. I took all our ideas and Benji's original bottle concept art along with a ZOOM meeting spoof and this is the final product.
I'm pretty proud of how it came out and that there's a couple of songs I wrote lyrics for that made it on here.
And you can stream it on pretty much any of your favorite streaming platforms. If you want to buy the record and support the band we recommend Bandcamp since we get almost 100% of the proceeds whereas we basically get nothing from major streaming apps.
https://deaddrift.bandcamp.com/album/pandemic
Since we're not doing much else I had some time to put together a few music videos. Check em out! Please subscribe to our official Youtube Channel if you like what you see. I hope to post more videos and live stuff.
If you would like to purchase a physical CD please Direct Message and please follow us on Instagram @thedeaddrift or email thedeaddrift@gmail.com
AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD - FUCKING VOTE!!!
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