While She Sleeps - You Are We (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:51:03 | 373 Mb
Metalcore | Label: Sharp Tone Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:51:03 | 373 Mb
Metalcore | Label: Sharp Tone Records
“This album is as much yours as it is ours,” says While She Sleeps’ Mat Welsh, hashing out a sentiment that explores how bands cannot exist in today’s industry without significant support through record sales, streams and successful attendance at live shows. But when the vocalist/guitarist articulates this over the phone, he means it in a far more heartfelt, substantial way than moving hundreds—even thousands—of copies in an album’s opening week. Welsh and his fellow bandmates simply couldn’t have made their upcoming album without fan support and input before the record’s creation. Rather than bank on the backing of a label, the U.K.-based metalcore group opted to take a risk and crowdfund the capital to self-release their upcoming 2017 full-length, You Are We. With four months left until the album is released, While She Sleeps fans alone have already helped the band achieve 133 percent of the pledge goal.Tracklist:
“We’ve had lots of ups and downs with debts. This whole career that we’ve strived to do [in which] we would be our own bosses almost got taken out of our hands,” Welsh says, explaining the decision. “So we [thought], let’s just take it back and then we’ll find a true representation of how many fans we have out there and how many people actually care about the band and not just what a label is telling us is what’s going on.”
While She Sleeps formed just a little over 10 years ago. In that time, Welsh, guitarist Sean Long, bassist Aaran McKenzie and drummer Adam Savage have continued to gain traction in the metalcore scene as their career has gone on with few alterations in their lineup. The only major change has been a switch in frontmen, with Lawrence “Loz” Taylor taking over for Jordan Widdowson in 2009. With two well-received albums under their belts (2012’s This Is The Six and 2015’s Brainwashed), the band felt they had a big enough following to ditch a label and ask a decade’s worth of fans for assistance.
Welsh is speaking from the band’s studio facility, a warehouse in the center of their native Sheffield, England, that the band converted DIY-style into a central hub to write and record the album. “[We] spent like a year building it,” says Welsh, who helped finish the studio’s electrical, sound proofing and interior structural work last January. “Now we have a fully working studio, and it’s kind of a nice feeling to be recording an album where we’re not just making the music, we actually built the rooms that we’re making the music in. It casts a very positive shadow on everything that we’re doing.” The band even added a kitchen and bedrooms so they could live in the warehouse throughout recording sessions.
Though the band were self-sufficient when it came to constructing their studio, they needed a monetary boost to release the music they would make there. Cue PledgeMusic. “The campaign is running until April 21, when the record comes out,” Welsh says. Crowdfunding has become pivotal in various creative fields, allowing artists to receive monetary backing from fans in exchange for rewards directly related to the projects at hand. “We wanted to build as much stuff ourselves that could be bundles [for rewards],” Welsh continues. “Most of the stuff that you can get on the pledge website is handmade by us in the warehouse. It’s all very personal, and it comes out of our hands. It’s not like it just got made in a factory, given to you and says ‘While She Sleeps’ on it. It probably has had ‘While She Sleeps’ written on it by one of us.” Once the band finish recording You Are We, they plan to melt down the strings used on their studio instruments to be converted into rings as some of the top tier rewards.
01. You Are We
02. Steal the Sun
03. Feel
04. Empire of Silence
05. Wide Awake
06. Silence Speaks (feat. Oli Sykes)
07. Settle Down Society
08. Hurricane
09. Revolt
10. Civil Isolation
11. In Another Now
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EAC extraction logfile from 17. April 2017, 15:43
While She Sleeps / You Are We
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