Ryan Meyer Admits Highly Suspect Wanted New Album to ‘Be Real’

When Ryan Meyer was requested how he is feeling to have Extremely Suspect’s newest album, As Above, So Under, out, he wasted no time along with his reply.

“Truthfully, by no means been higher,” Meyer informed Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (Sept. 20).

“The previous couple of data have been experimental. They have been troublesome to make for the mistaken causes and people challenges and experiences led us to understand what we did not need and what we wanted — and that was to strip again the entire bullshit and simply make a file in a room, all collectively.”

Followers can hear precisely that after they take heed to As Above, So Under; you may hear toes stepping on pedalboards and Meyer placing his drumsticks down.

“Quite a lot of the takes on the file have been one move all over,” he stated. “We wished it to be genuine and actual and one thing that individuals may resonate in as a result of, to every their very own, however there’s a whole lot of data on the market which can be so good and so clear and the drums are quantized to a grid…”

Meyer stated that they’ve tried all of that earlier than, but it surely by no means felt proper.

“This file seems like us and that feels so good … That is how we will be doing data from right here on.”

The Make-or-Break Second For Extremely Suspect

As Meyer opened up concerning the difficulties of recording earlier albums — and together with the sudden struggles the COVID-19 pandemic offered — he admitted the way forward for Extremely Suspect, at one level, did not appear sure.

“There was a dialog behind a resort on a wet night time in Houston,” he recalled. “We have been speaking about going into pre-production and there are all types of concepts being tossed round about how we have been going to do it.”

Finally he and Extremely Suspect’s bassist, Wealthy — who can also be Meyer’s brother — had sufficient of that dialog and put their collective foot down.

“We have been like, look, here is the deal. We’re both going to complete up our contractual obligations, the festivals we have now booked and the excursions we have now booked that the followers purchased tickets for, and we will name it quits. Or, we will make an album collectively in the identical room, writing collectively, working via our points collectively and we will make this album as a band, as a unit — or it is not going to occur.”

Meyer admitted that it took that make-or-break second for the band to understand what they wished to do. Even with that readability, although, no person knew precisely what they wished the brand new album to sound like.

Actually, Meyer stated he did not even care.

“I [wanted] it to be the thumbprint of the band,” he stated.

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“It wanted to be the distinctive thumbprint of Extremely Suspect and the one means we will get that’s if we go in there with none form of concept of what it must be or what pattern it must compete with or what sound is doing properly on the time.”

Finally, the sound that emerged was one that everybody was excited to listen to.

“This seems like all of the music that I grew up with once I was on building websites and there was a boombox blasting within the nook … It simply form of got here out within the music.”

What Else Did Extremely Suspect’s Ryan Meyer Talk about on Loudwire Nights?

• What it was like being a brand new band and abruptly having fame and success — and Grammy nominations
• Why he felt like Extremely Suspect was a canopy band after they carried out songs like “Pure Born Killer” dwell
• Why he believes As Above, So Under is one of the best file Extremely Suspect have ever made

Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Under

Ryan Meyer joined Loudwire Nights on Thursday, Sept. 20; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in dwell each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you may also see if the present is accessible in your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand.