“Here’s the thing, with Zack and Matt both, it was more about having fun and not caring about the end result. I really liked that and I knew he would bring a sound to the record, a darker sound than Zack was doing, so we brought him in.”ĭid you enjoy having more than one producer? That’s the first time you’ve worked that way… Then he had some time and I asked if he would work with me and we wrote ‘Bloodlines’ together. He was in the studio at the same time as we were with Hollywood Undead and he asked me to do a feature on their record, which I did. We started with Zack and Matt was something of an afterthought. You did the record with Matt Good and Zakk Cervini, what did they bring to the process? Then, from there, everything started to unfold towards a record.” We didn’t need to go to the studio if it didn’t work. There didn’t need to be an urgency or a deadline. “They told me that if we wanted to do a record, then we needed to move to a place where we were just a band being happy to be playing music in a room together.

I didn’t know if I wanted to do another record, I didn’t feel like I was in the right place for it.” We sat down with Benji and Joel (Madden, Good Charlotte founders and Sleeping With Sirens managers), I wanted to talk things through. He sent me more ideas and after we got home for tour we went into the studio and started building the record.”ĭid you have a goal of how you wanted to do things differently from what you’ve done in the past? The Gossip tour was a very dark period for me and so that sound really, really resonated. Jack (Fowler, guitarist) had been sending me ideas and that was the darkest one he had. “The only song that was written on the road was ‘Ghost’ and that was the initial soundscape for the record. When did you start working on the songs for How It Feels To Be Lost? That album, How It Feels To Be Lost, arrives on shelves today (September 6th) and we spoke to Quinn about how it came together and why he went back into the studio reluctantly. Now off their major label deal and more in control of their schedule, the band reunited, first just to play together and to begin to enjoy their music again, and then, as creative types do, talk moved to a new record. But, that distance and lack of pressure, had a transformative effect. He got through the remaining shows and headed home, fully intending not to make a new record for a good while, maybe never.Īt his insistence, and with the support of his bandmates and management, no plans were made to return to the studio. Initially reluctant to head out on the road, he was burnt out and desperate for downtime. Halfway through the gruelling touring commitments for their fifth studio album Gossip, Kellin Quinn, frontman of Florida post-hardcore fivesome, realised he’d made a mistake. I didn’t try to sugarcoat anything” - Kellin Quinn talks hmv.com through Sleeping With Sirens’ new album How It Feels To Be Lost “This is the most personal record I’ve ever done.

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