Hey guys. Hope you're all doing well. Today you are going to get to learn about the band Exit, Pursued who are a new and upcoming band. When you've finished learning about them definitely check out 'Three Years' that will be down below:
How was the band name created?
I was drinking beer with my friend Brody in an old pub in St Andrews, where I went to university. At this point we'd stopped being just a recording project and started being a real band so I figured we needed a good name. Brody was studying Shakespeare, so I figured she'd be a great source of clever sounding lines to base our band name off. In return for a promise that she'd be put first in the "Thanks" section of our debut album (still working on that part), she offered a stage direction from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale: "Exit, pursued by a bear". I loved it, but it was too long, so we went with Exit Pursued.
How would you describe the music your band creates?
That's a very difficult question for us, because we don't find it easy to fit ourselves into one genre in particular. We see ourselves as a rock band at heart, but a lot of people would say that we play progressive metal. The music itself ultimately boils down a combination of melody, technicality, and energy. The focus is always on the songs, crafting the kind of songs that are interesting and complex but still good to sing along to. We always want our music to be fun, but we also throw in as much musicianship as we're capable of, for the listeners that are more interested in the music theory side of things. Whilst we don't want us being massive music nerds to put anyone off, we also don't want anyone to ever get bored.
What are some of the themes and messages that come across in your songs?
Every song is pretty unique when it comes to the lyrics for our songs, but there is definitely a theme that's popped up across the ones we've written so far. In the future we plan to write songs that deal with more off-the-wall topics, but these first ones were ultimately about people, and the relationships we have with the people in our lives. Infinity is about friends, Three Years is about enemies, and Drown is about how difficult it can be to tell the difference. In fact, in a lot of ways Drown was about trying to work out if you are your own worst enemy. Even when we use crazy imagery of stuff like running through fields surrounded by gods, it's about experiences shared with people, experiences that were intense and mind-blowing, and felt just as ridiculous as the metaphors used in the songs. So I guess you could say that the main theme so far is how fascinating people and your relationships with them can be, and how they make life interesting. This, in turn, would make the big message of our songs that you have to think about the people in your life, think about yourself, and try to realize just how valuable some of those people are - and which people your life could maybe do without.
What are your plans for 2016?
Our biggest priority right now is gigging! We are trying to book gigs whenever and wherever we can, and get this music that we've spent an awfully long time working on out there and into people's ears. The next record we're going to release is likely going to be a single; we've got a couple of songs floating about that we'd like to lay down and we'd like to do that before the summer rolls around. By the end of the year, we want to be at least working on EP number two, ideally we'd be getting it out before the end of 2016 or maybe early 2017. We've moved really slowly so far in this band, so 2016 has to be the year that we accelerate things!
Where can people find you on social media?
Twitter : @EXitPursuedUK
Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/exit-pursued-652602143
And everything is absolutely free, so go steal it, fill your earholes and hopefully see you at a gig soon!
Finally, if there was only one album you could listen to for the rest of your life which one would you choose and why?
Mastodon - Crack the Skye. This album was huge for every member of this band, and has been constantly played throughout the band's history so far. It's a unique gem, unlike any other album, with so many different aspects to it that you could listen to it countless times and always find something new. The lyrics are both far-out, dealing with psychic space travel and visions of the long-dead Rasputin, and so real that it's heartbreaking, in dealing with a family tragedy that the drummer, who wrote the lyrics, had to face. The music leaps from country to sludge metal to prog rock to psychedelic noise within the confines of each song. The production is rough around the edges, but this only makes it all the more perfect. Just writing this makes me want to listen to Crack the Skye right now. It's a timeless classic that could never get overplayed.
Thank you to the boys Exit, Pursued for answering these questions. If any other bands want to be featured on the blog please email me at rachelcolley@msn.com and I'll send you the questions.
Hope you enjoyed this blog post,
Rachel.
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