Young The Giant's New Album Inspired By Haunted House and More
. After releasing their first album, the band spent two and a half years on the road. Guitarist Jacob Tilley told Radio.com that by the time they were done touring, they were all ready for a break and a chance to recharge their batteries.
They admit though that they were away longer than they would have liked, due to a bout of writers block that had them struggling to find their sound again. It was writing "It's About Time" that helped the guys bounce back and ended up becoming the first single off Mind Over Matter, mostly because Gadhia couldn't stop playing it. "There's a level of frustration in the song that's just from the music itself," Gadhia explained. Tilley admitted that they were looking to put out something more aggressive than they had before and "It's About Time" fit the bill. We wanted to make a statement right off the bat," he said, noting that a lot of the songs they were hearing on rock radio were synth heavy, but that's just not their style. "At the core of our band we're a rock band with guitars and we wanted to put out the most blaring, guitar driven track." Gadhia feels like he found his voice as a songwriter with this album, noting that the band's first outing � recorded when he was just 18 years old � was very earnest and honest. "It's a clich� thing to say, but you know we had our whole lives to write the first record," he explained. "The second really depends on what the band wants to do with it and for us, we wanted to do something a little different, but connect in a really strong way." To keep them focused on the task at hand, the guys stayed in their home state of California, recording in three different houses in the Los Angeles area, including one in East L.A. that may or may not have been haunted. "The architect was on something, because it really didn't make any sense," Tilley said. "There was like a corridor to nowhere, it would just stop. And underneath the house, in the bowels of it, there were these giant chambers�with these 30 foot roofs and people had been squatting there at some point. The whole house was just very eerie. It was obviously built in the Seventies and one room looked like it belonged in a '70s porn film, other ones looked like a demon had lived there." Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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