(New Interview) + (New Album X 3) = Loads of News

Here's a link to a recent interview with Sounds Good Ink, a local music blog.

Inside that interview is the first word of the follow-up to Primrose, and I have a bit more info to help flesh out that mention. Chance will be flying to the Pacific Northwest immediately after the Chicago show in April to record demos on analog tape. Bueford mentioned in his blog earlier in the month that the entire band would be traveling to the Pacific Northwest to tour, and that will be happening in early August. I've also heard of new tunes being broken in at rehearsals, but I have no idea if these are songs being considered for the follow-up album. I wouldn't expect this follow-up album until 2011.

So what of The Letter 11? It is still in the works for 2010. The songs are being explored a bit more in a full band setting.

And, yes, the title of this post mentions THREE new albums. Chance released an album of what were essentially demo tracks back in 2003, but only 50 copies were pressed and sold while he was living in New York. He only had one copy of that which was given away, and the computer holding a digital copy of that crashed as well. The master recording tapes are in the possession of the gentleman that owned the studio, and he no longer lives in Grand Rapids. The good news in all of this is that friend of the band Casey Rich, who is teaching in Shanghai, recently uploaded a copy of the album to Chance in mp3 format. Look for more information about this album to be released this week here on the blog. I know that Chance would like to get this out to folks to hear soon, and that is being explored.