[00:00:01] Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in 73 he loves punk rock music fighting the 13 cabin in the dazzle Jazz rock Now on the beat guitar with a short wind radio Bat his motherfucking envy scrolling look at motherfucker Cuz here he comes Andy Sculling wearing his or.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: His hat welcome to this special episode of Unsigned 518. I'm here with Dan and Ned of Faraday. Hello.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Hey. Hello.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: And, you know, we were talking just before we got going like this. This is a special episode because there's a special event, and if anybody wants to hear the full Faraday episode, you can go back and get the backstory there. But today we're here to talk about the album Wellspring and the album release that is happening tomorrow. So I guess I'll kind of throw it to you guys if you want to just tell us a little bit about what's going on with, you know, talk about the album first, I guess, and the event or either way. And maybe we'll even throw a song on, you know.
[00:01:13] Speaker D: Yeah, it'd be awesome. Thanks for having us, first of all.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Absolutely. Anytime.
[00:01:17] Speaker D: Yeah. I don't know, Ned, do you want to say anything about the record?
[00:01:21] Speaker C: Jump in. It's all you.
[00:01:22] Speaker D: Yeah. So we named the album Wellspring. Our guitar player, Chris, named it kind of during practice, just be.
We wrote the songs fairly quick, so he thought that that was an appropriate name for the album.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Like a wellspring of ideas, I guess.
[00:01:42] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: I think that Chris, He's a crafty fella.
[00:01:46] Speaker D: He is. We had.
We had kind of, you know, like a lot of bands didn't get to really practice in person for, you know, about a year, or maybe it was six months. We practiced once during COVID and then kind of after lockdown when people started doing stuff again, we started practicing pretty regularly and the songs came pretty quickly. So there's eight. We had. We have eight new songs here and then two.
Two older songs that we re recorded because when we had recorded them the first time, we had tracked the stuff ourselves. So we just kind of wanted a different version of those two songs.
[00:02:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I did a. We recorded. We recorded that record at my house, and I did most of the tracking and, like, the takes were great, sounded really good. But yeah, like, we couldn't get the Ride Symbol to come down and stuff. So we were. Yeah, wound up recording two. Two of the songs that. Two of our. I think our favorite songs that we, you know, we'd like to play and.
Yeah. So that rounds out the album.
And yeah, those turned out really well too.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: And what's it like to. Because I love the idea of taking a song and, you know, not like admitting its flaws. Like you said it was great performance, but, you know, you're like, there's something that we could do now that we couldn't do then. And then taking them. Does that. Do you feel like it's just like a brand new song or is it like.
Like there's got to be just something like, extra invigorating about that?
[00:03:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it was definitely. I personally, I thought it was fun to re record it.
There was something about.
How do I say this?
[00:03:46] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:47] Speaker C: I don't know. After, you know, you record it and then you go play it a bunch of times. And I think it's just better now after a couple years, you know, because we recorded it the first time a few years back. So, you know, it's like.
[00:04:03] Speaker D: And actually Strangers, which is one of the songs that we recorded, was the newest. When we recorded it the first time, was the newest song from that batch of songs. So it was like fairly, you know, fairly fresh.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: Right? Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: And when you write songs and like, you know, are putting an album together, do you kind of write the songs and record them kind of in one fell swoop or like, fairly close to each other? Do you write the songs, work them, play them live, give them some room to breathe and then record them?
[00:04:37] Speaker C: That's a good question.
[00:04:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: Do you want to answer that?
[00:04:44] Speaker D: Yeah.
I mean, for Faraday, when we started, we used to just practice a lot. So I think the songs.
Well, even with the first record we had recorded before, we had recorded that first record we did before we played our first show.
So it's. Yeah, I. That is a good question. Now I feel like we will. We definitely with these songs. We played these. Some of these songs, probably about 75% of them we played live for a couple years, maybe after the drums and bass had been recorded, but not necessarily the guitars.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: Yeah, this. Sorry to interrupt, but this. This album took a.
An unusually long amount of time. Yeah, it's like from start to finish, like three years.
[00:05:37] Speaker D: It's like three and a half years.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: Three and a half years.
[00:05:39] Speaker D: Yeah. So excess.
[00:05:41] Speaker C: Yeah. In general, I feel like it's relative. It's usually pretty straightforward. Rewrite songs, maybe play some shows and then go into going to the studio.
We've always recorded with Tim lynch at the recording company.
He knows how we like to do things and. Yeah, but this record was weird because I don't know if it was because of COVID or just because of, you know, we all also all have, you know, families and mortgages and all that stuff at this point. So, yeah, we went. It took a long time, you know, track it. You know, we'd go in and track like three things like the drums and bass, and then wouldn't do anything for a few months.
So yeah, this one was really kind of. Kind of piecemeal.
But, you know, I don't know, I think, you know, things. The way things come together can sometimes make them more interesting or affect the thing itself at the end, you know?
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Right, Sorry. I'm just. I'm just admiring the vinyl because I actually have the vinyl in my hand and I was looking at the Band Camp earlier and it said that the colored vinyl.
[00:07:01] Speaker D: Oh yeah.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: And I was like, oh, I want to see what color.
[00:07:04] Speaker D: Yeah, there was. So it's green, by the way. Yeah, it's like. Like 75% of the pressing is green and 25 were yellow. And that was completely random. My friend Chris opened a record pressing plant in Asheville. There's a guy who I've known for years and years, and when I was gonna have it pressed, I like started looking into his plant. And it's nice having a friend, you know what I mean? In that. Cuz for years you're just like kind of, you know, I would just kind of send records off to places and then when you try to like get in touch with them, you know, after three months there's no records, which is fine. But I was just like, check in and then you just get like an automated or like, you know, we're sorry.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: You'Re having to wait so long.
[00:07:47] Speaker D: But with him it was just like, you know, I could send him a message on Instagram or just, you know, and he would always respond. He'd be like, hey man, it's, you know, it's. It's here or it's here right now. You know what I mean? So that was cool. And with this, he has a deal where he will press.
It's the same cost as black vinyl. It's like recycled vinyl or vinyl that was unused from another job that they kind of had left over. So I was like.
So I asked to do that and I was like, just like, whatever you can do to make it look cool. And he did make it look cool. Yeah, he did a great job.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: So.
[00:08:25] Speaker D: Yeah, thank you, Chris.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: And so that, you know, I. You can order it. The colored vinyl through Band Camp.
[00:08:32] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: And is it out now?
[00:08:35] Speaker D: Yeah. Ready to go. All right. Yeah. If anyone wants to order them, we. We have them up there for sale. So it's just whatever. Faraday.bandcamp.com.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And I can actually.
I'll link to that page on the show notes. So if you're listening to the episode, just pull up the show notes wherever you're listening and click on the link to. To buy the album. But yeah, really cool, man. I love the. The colored Vibram. How. How did the idea for the COVID come about?
[00:09:06] Speaker D: I had.
I found the image of the cows on the beach years and years ago when we were kind of putting the record together.
There's a song on the last song on the A side.
Walking the Cow was my brother growing. Growing up. Had a picture. I remember it like it was yesterday. Had a picture of Frank Zappa, like cut out of a magazine and he's walking a cow down.
So.
[00:09:37] Speaker C: Down the street.
[00:09:38] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: So I always had that in the back of my head. Like that's a good name for something. A book, a song, right? Something walking the cow.
[00:09:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: So I just.
[00:09:49] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: And you should. You know, I'm not even going to describe the COVID because people should just go to band camp right now.
[00:09:56] Speaker C: Yeah, there you go.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: And check it out. Check it out yourselves. And then you'll be like, oh, now I know why they're talking about.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: And that's a real picture.
[00:10:03] Speaker D: It is. It looks.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: It looks like it's a weird AI picture, but it's a. It's a legit picture which makes it so much cooler.
[00:10:11] Speaker D: And I. The weird thing about that is the original one I found was taken in like the. The 60s or the 50s, I think it was really cool.
The resolution of it was so low, it wasn't pixelated looking. But the record pressing plant couldn't get it.
When. When you enlarged blows out, it looks kind of grainy. It didn't look bad, but it like. But it did kind of look bad. So Brendan Shoe sang for Male Patterns, did all the artwork for that for me.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Got my patterns hanging out there.
[00:10:49] Speaker D: And he helped me work my way through that. So he. He and I had to.
I ended up finally after like it got. It got rejected like four different times. And he would try to go back and fix it, you know. And we just figured out that I probably needed to get something that was, you know, higher res picture. So I paid like 10 bucks to get the license for that image and was like, you know, this one's really, really nice looking also.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:18] Speaker D: So it's the. The exact same idea but just one that wasn't, you know, taken in, like, 1960 or whatever it was.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: So, yeah, fun bit of trivia. You probably know this, but Brandon was the one who named this room the Dazzled Them.
[00:11:31] Speaker D: That's right. I remember that day. It was a fun day.
That's right.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: I was like, yeah, we need to come up with a room. And he just like, he. It was like he had it chambered.
I've said it. I've said it a lot. So people probably are like, yeah, we know, we know. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, good. So, yeah, go to the link in the show notes now and order the. The vinyl and you can get it. Get it sent to you and you can. You can listen to it now on Bandcamp as well. Is it on all the streaming?
[00:12:02] Speaker D: It's on Spotify. Yeah. It's on all the streaming things, too. So, yeah.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Well, should we put on a song right now?
[00:12:09] Speaker D: Sure, yeah.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: Which.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Which one do we want to listen to?
[00:12:12] Speaker D: Do you want to do the first one? Sounds Coming Down.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, cool. Let's check out Sounds Coming Down. It's the first track off the album Wellspring from Faraday. And we'll be right back and we'll talk about the album release party that's happening tomorrow.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: I shall this love I jealous like my headache not so bad and I look like the only thing let's make this is a different day I think well, I know better than that train driver well, I see the lights and I hear the sound coming down well, I know better than that train driver it's coming down I swear this world this world is right a different way A gentle light it turns us up inside out Every sort of future.
[00:13:30] Speaker D: Well.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: I know better than that train traveler well, I see the lights and I hear the sound coming down well, I know better than that train driver it's coming down.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: All right, so that was Sounds Coming down, track one off the new album Wellspring from Faraday. And let's talk about the show that is tomorrow. I have the flyer, but I'm not wearing my glasses, so I'm not going to even really attempt to read that. But you probably know what's happening. Tell us. You want the flyer for reference.
[00:14:35] Speaker D: So it's our record release show. It's going to be at Son of Egg in Rensselaer, New York. That is tomorrow, which is October. Saturday, October 18th.
That's at 1pm so it's a. It's a matinee show. It's gonna be with Chaser bait, Faraday, Schenectavoids. Schenectavoids are also releasing their first full length lp. So they.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Which you also brought me.
[00:15:01] Speaker D: Yep. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that's great. It is great.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Stoked. I'm gonna listen to them both today.
[00:15:07] Speaker D: Yep.
And then we have a few.
We have a Western Mass band and a band from Boston.
So that's gonna be awesome. And it's also the 20th anniversary show for the label that I've been doing since 2005. So we kind of shocked. Made it all one huge thing. So this is show that I'm doing with Jay from Schenectavoid. So thanks Jay for all the help of that, buddy. You're a huge help. So stop by. Faraday will have records and shirts to sell and Schnectavoids are gonna have records and I. I think they have some new shirts also too. So should be a good time.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: And let's talk like a little bit about the venue itself, you know. Son of egg.
[00:16:07] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: You know, cuz a lot of people will be like, oh, well that sounds like a restaurant. And that's because it. It is. Right. But like, how cool is it to have a place like that? Like awesome. That just the shows they put on there, I mean they're basically. It's like a. A sanctioned underground club or whatever. Like it's such a cool thing.
[00:16:32] Speaker D: So Jay actually got the space for us and he says there's just like a form online that you fill out and you send them the money to like rent the hall or whatever. And that's, you know, and they just like let you run it yourself.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: Have you. Have you seen the. Because I haven't actually been there.
[00:16:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I've been to a handful of shows there. My other band, Life Abuse played. Played there last summer too.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: It's cool.
[00:16:55] Speaker D: It sounds great. You know, the shows are upstairs and there's like a restaurant on the first floor.
The food there is awesome.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: What kind of food is it?
Sushi.
[00:17:07] Speaker D: I believe it's Korean.
[00:17:10] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. Korean.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: But the space is cool.
[00:17:13] Speaker D: Like the space is awesome.
[00:17:15] Speaker C: Yep.
So the.
[00:17:18] Speaker D: The shows are up on the second floor, so.
And it's just like an open. Like there's clearly like. There's like a little bar up there, but they don't have that. It's. It's like not. It's not open when the shows happen or whatever.
So. But yeah, they're just super nice. They've let. They've let Jay do a whole bunch of shows there too, so.
[00:17:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Cuz I mean, I've covered shows there like on Weekend Spotlight, like a whole bunch. And I've always, you know, and I'm, you know, old and out in the country, so for me to get out to.
I'm like, it takes. Takes a lot. But. Yeah, but I should, I should get out to one of these.
One of these shows. But yeah. So it's tomorrow and it starts at one.
[00:17:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:58] Speaker B: And it's just like. And gonna go kind of, I mean, obviously gonna go pretty quick.
[00:18:02] Speaker D: I think we're trying to get the bands to play pretty quick back to back because it's. It's six bands in a six hour, in like a five hour window.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: But so it's like one to six, one to seven.
[00:18:12] Speaker D: Yeah. First. First band's gonna start at one. The show has to be over by six. So we're gonna, you know, each. But I mean, how long is each gonna, you know. Each band will play for 20 minutes, so I feel like whatever. And then 20 minutes for people to set up all their gear in between.
It'll go fast.
We're gonna backline all the. The drums and the cabs, I think too, so that'll hopefully make it.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the way to do it. That's. I mean, I love playing shows with other, other bands for that reason because like, you know, I play bass and I don't even use like pedals or anything. Like I'm just like a low end bass.
[00:18:48] Speaker C: So like, you're ready to go in 30 seconds.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: I have a fucking gig. I have a gig bag, you know what I mean? And I go wireless. So I'm like, I just plug this into the house amp. Yeah, I'm good. You know, tune up.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: It's fantastic. Yep.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: All right, awesome. So again, show is tomorrow, 1pm Six bands.
I'm sure if on Faraday's Instagram, there's probably a flyer.
[00:19:10] Speaker D: Yeah, there's a flyer. There's a flyer on the Shock to the system Instagram and Schenectavoids. I think Albany hardcore put it up there. So thanks, Adam, for that, buddy. Nice.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Well, I think we should hear another. Another song off of Wellspring. What do you think?
[00:19:26] Speaker D: Sounds good.
[00:19:27] Speaker C: Sounds good.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Which one do you want to do?
[00:19:31] Speaker C: I guess we'll do Away from Me, which is the second track on the record.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: All right, cool. So let's check that out and then we'll be right back to wrap it up with Dan and Ned. A Faraday.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Sam.
She made it to the sea first wearing just a T shirt.
Screaming from the black wave and laughing back to the beginning I'd like to see you in my dreams and every time I wake up to feeling be fading away Fading away There's no action I'm pitching for the caption I was yelling for attention I turn around and get up I like to see you in my dreams Every time I wake up Feeling beyond your way me.
[00:22:24] Speaker D: All.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Right, so that was away from me. Faraday. We got to hear the first two tracks off the new album Wellspring, but I suggest you go to Bandcamp right now. You can order the colored vinyl or download it digitally on Bandcamp, but anyway, Dan, Ned, I want to thank you so much for taking time out of your day.
[00:22:42] Speaker C: Thank you so much. Yeah, this is great.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Absolutely. No, it's been a pleasure. And. And I have gifts because I. I actually have a, you know, a record player out in the living room. We listen to vinyl a lot.
[00:22:52] Speaker D: Awesome.
[00:22:52] Speaker C: Awesome.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: So I am definitely going to put that on while I wait for my next guest.
But before we go, I want to give you a chance to say your gratitude. So, Dan, we'll. We'll start with you.
[00:23:01] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Well, thanks to everyone who helped us get the record out. Brendan, Chris at Donaldson Record Pressing.
Tim lynch, for all you do for us, buddy. Thanks. You're a huge help. And, yeah, thank you, Andy, for having us on, man. This is awesome.
[00:23:20] Speaker C: Of course, Absolutely.
[00:23:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:23] Speaker C: I'd like to, you know, thank Brendan for everything that, you know, he did as, you know, far as getting the record ready to go. And Tim, obviously, and like to thank our other two bandmates who aren't here, Kevin and Chris, who are out doing something with their families, I think, today.
So, yeah, and thanks for everybody who still comes out. You know, this band's been together for over 10 years, and we appreciate everyone who still comes out and, you know, sees live, live music, whether it's us or anybody else in the capital district, you know, it's really important. So thanks. Thanks for everybody. Thanks for your continued patronage.
[00:24:13] Speaker D: Awesome.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: All right, so they are Dan and Ned of Faraday. I am Andy scullin. This is unsigned 518 and I'll see you on the road.
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