New song from my band!

Bucket

Wassup folks, today my band Corolla released a new track, which you can check out here:

This one's been a few months in the making, as is explained in the YouTube description written by our frontman. This is the first release of ours that I've played guitar on, so I'm pretty excited about it and I hope you guys enjoy it.

As I haven't really said anything about us before on here, I'll give you a quick overview. The band's been going in various forms for a few years, and I joined, along with the drummer (whom I've known since primary school) about a year ago. Influences-wise it's pretty varied, but generally our biggest influences are alternative rock bands like Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins and Silversun Pickups. I love the music we're playing and I'm really enjoying being a part of it.

EDIT: Oh, and here's our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/corollamusic5?pnref=story

Deijavoo

Nice work mate. Reminds me of 90s Idlewild and Placebo.

Bucket

Deijavoo said:

Nice work mate. Reminds me of 90s Idlewild and Placebo.

Placebo is another band we quote as an influence, so that's good!

Deijavoo

I see you're pals with Neil Alternator, nicest promoter in rock and roll today.

Deadman

Very good and I like it. I know this as I'll be giving it another listen tonight at volume when I'm getting drunk.

stickyfiddle

Nice! Intro is a bit long for me, and you have a silly name, but most bands do. Anyway, I like the song. Would definitely be keen to hear more

not_the_dj

stickyfiddle said:

and you have a silly name

A cunning plan to get a lucrative sponsorship deal from a Japanese motor manufacturer?

not_the_dj

...it's very good btw.

Bucket

Thanks all

I didn't come up with the name

PolarityMan

Can definitely see the Placebo influence, the guitar tone sounds really like something off "Without you I'm nothing", which is a great album btw.

Facebook likes incoming.

johnnyurq

Very good stuff young sir, I enjoyed that a lot.

thomasross20

Glad you're having such a great time with your band!

I can definitely hear the influences you mention - good stuff!!

How did you record the parts?

Bucket

thomasross20 said:

How did you record the parts?

The guitars were recorded at the drummer's place (he's a producer too) which is also where we often rehearse. Drums were initially MIDI, then I think we ended up doing live drums and also programming some electronic drums for certain parts (I'm a bit hazy on this - I wasn't involved in this bit!) Tony would have recorded the vocals in his own time, probably at home.

Then everything was pulled around for months, the structure was changed, bits were re-recorded, re-produced until eventually we hit on something that worked, then it was all sent off for mastering and here we are now.

It's not always this round-about, often a lot more straightforward, but this was a trickier one to get right. I'd hope we've managed it!

thomasross20

Definitely, sounds great man - keep up the good work! I expect a 20 minute guitar solo / interlude next time

ThePrettyDamned

Reminds me of Silversun pickups greatly. 

Very cool!

dilbert

Good work Conner, really enjoyable :-bd

Bucket

ThePrettyDamned said:

Reminds me of Silversun pickups greatly. 

Very cool!

Brilliant to hear - another band we take a lot of inspiration from!

Grunfeld

That's good.