FAVEZ - En Garde!

When a producer loves a band, he wants to make them sound like themselves, he wants to stay true to what the group really is. So Scheps flew from Los Angeles to Lausanne for a few days early 2010 to check out how the band sounded in the rehearsal space. He loved the new songs, told them to write a few more with big riffs, and that summer they all met in Wales to record at Monnow Valley Studios (Oasis, Stereophonics, …). The band recorded live. One song a day. And invariably, the excitement got bigger as the night grew closer. At around 10pm, the song was wrapped and everybody opened a beer, sat down and listened to the beauty of End The Show’s piano arpeggios, the ass-kicking of Like The Old Days or On, the epic choruses of Tearing Down The Highway or the ethereal strangeness of Closet Astronaut.

When a producer loves a band, he wants to make them sound like themselves, he wants to stay true to what the group really is. So Scheps flew from Los Angeles to Lausanne for a few days early 2010 to check out how the band sounded in the rehearsal space. He loved the new songs, told them to write a few more with big riffs, and that summer they all met in Wales to record at Monnow Valley Studios (Oasis, Stereophonics, …). The band recorded live. One song a day. And invariably, the excitement got bigger as the night grew closer. At around 10pm, the song was wrapped and everybody opened a beer, sat down and listened to the beauty of End The Show’s piano arpeggios, the ass-kicking of Like The Old Days or On, the epic choruses of Tearing Down The Highway or the ethereal strangeness of Closet Astronaut.