![]() ![]() ![]() Stylistically, the songs could have fit on either record. ![]() This record always seemed like the logical bridging of the gap between Scrambles and Vacation. This was also the first Quote Unquote Records release. I didn’t have to figure out how to play the songs live with other people, it was more “I may not ever play live with other people again.” So that led to the production of this record being the way that it was. I realized it was working somehow, and it led to being able to experiment more wildly. This is too crazy” and I started doing iPod solo touring for the first time. It was a combination of moving to Queens and never having people come visit me, and also the fact that when this record came out, people in the band sort of started saying, “Whoa I can’t tour and play in this band. But I don’t feel negatively about it.ĭid the fact that you moved to a remote area of Queens, isolated from your friends and family, during the period of writing and recording this record kind of influence your decision to turn further inward and rely only on yourself for the production? But there are also songs on there that we have never played live, that maybe would have been better as b-sides. I think it has a lot of really weird stuff on it. ![]() This was definitely, for me, taking drum machines and home programming as far as I could take it. “I got so tired of discussing my future that I started avoiding the people I love,” he sings on the new single “Nausea.” Stuck between the past and future sometimes, the present is a shitty sandwich.Īlmost ten years to the day since the release of Bomb’s debut Album Minus Band, and only a few days prior to the release of We Cool? on SideOneDummy Records, I asked Jeff to take a look into the past and rank the BTMI! catalog in order of his personal preference, before his present catches up to his future and maybe we find out what the hell is actually gonna happen to this guy anyway? The related anxiety of what’s on the horizon is also omnipresent in the album’s 12 songs. Jeff’s forthcoming solo full-length debut, We Cool?, has a pervasive theme of fear and self-consciousness that his best days are behind him. ![]()
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