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MGM: How do you’re feeling Seven Spires has improved musically from Solveig to A Citadel Known as House? What adjustments or expansion stand out to you essentially the most?
Jack Kosto: For us, our musical development is one thing we continuously paintings on, each as instrumentalists and as songwriters! The function is rarely to outdo what we’ve carried out ahead of, however to repeatedly fortify and feature the methodology and figuring out had to create the most productive variations of the songs we need to write. The most important adjustments have more than likely been the ones technical ones as gamers and singers.
MGM: Your track has all the time mixed symphonic parts with extra excessive steel sounds, and this album pushes even additional into that territory. What drove the band to discover those darker, heavier tones on A Citadel Known as House?
Jack Kosto: Extra is extra, in all probability! Our track has all the time been dense with orchestration, nevertheless it was once a concern in this latest file to verify the ones orchestral main points have been heard and felt up to conceivable. Adrienne is constantly increasing her ability set as an orchestrator, and the extra she improves, the extra those parts transform necessary to the best way every tune feels.
MGM: Adrienne’s vocal efficiency in this album is extra numerous than ever, with an build up in harsh vocals. How did the band way incorporating those vocal kinds, and what impressed this shift for your sound?
Jack Kosto: Now I believe like I’m giving the similar solution for every query, however Adrienne’s numerous vocal kinds are one thing she’s all the time pushing for, continuously impressed by way of new bands and artists to department out and uncover new sounds. From Leprous to Livestock Decapitation and in every single place in between, it’s thrilling for her to have a fuller palette of textures to color with, and for us to precise lyrics in numerous techniques.
MGM: The narrative on A Citadel Known as House is deeply private and stuffed with darkish, emotional topics. Are you able to communicate in regards to the inspiration at the back of the tale of the remoted girl within the fortress and the way it advanced?
Jack Kosto: Citadel is in fact the primary album we’ve carried out the place there isn’t actually a linear narrative or storyline all through. There are fewer characters going puts and doing issues, and extra of a deep dive into the feelings that impressed the ones earlier tales. This makes it really feel extra uncooked and private (and relatable in some ways) as a result of there’s a layer of fable that’s been got rid of. We’re more than pleased that this resonates with listeners.
MGM: Peter described this album as one that can “construct you up and tear you down.” How did the band paintings to mirror those emotional highs and lows within the track and lyrics?
Jack Kosto: We approached it in the similar means we do each and every album—every tune and emotion will have to be true to itself, expressing a selected emotion or staff of feelings concisely and exactly. It’s reasonably a difficult procedure every now and then, however the finish result’s a deeper connection, and for me, that’s a good looking factor.
MGM: Adrienne discussed visiting “the void” two times whilst scripting this album. How did the ones reports affect the topics and the band’s general method to growing A Citadel Known as House?
Jack Kosto: The ones reports formed a deeply private album stuffed with unpleasant and uncomfortable topics, as you’ve spotted in earlier questions! It’s every so often tricky to speak about, however we are hoping that by way of addressing those subjects so evidently in our lyrics, folks will really feel understood and observed.
MGM: The manufacturing on A Citadel Known as House has been famous for its rawness, with the guitars and drums every so often buried within the combine. What was once the reasoning at the back of this manufacturing selection, and the way do you’re feeling it contributes to the album’s general environment?
Jack Kosto: This was once an excessively intentional resolution. The muse got here from the sheer energy and all-encompassing presence of an orchestra in a are living efficiency. It’s 60+ gamers filling a complete room, and far of this grandeur is regularly misplaced in fashionable steel productions. The rules of physics are the enemy right here, and balancing a large steel band whilst additionally highlighting a complete orchestra in all its splendor is a problem—but if carried out proper, it’s like not anything else.
MGM: Jack, you treated the manufacturing, blending, and mastering for this album. What demanding situations did the band face in growing the soundscape, and the way did you all paintings in combination to stability the symphonic parts with the intense steel elements?
Jack Kosto: Plenty of blood, sweat, and tears—fistfights, shouting suits, and rock-paper-scissors for decision-making. Simply kidding! In truth, the method wasn’t too tricky except for the technical sides of the combination, as all of us knew what we needed the album to sound and really feel like from the early demo levels. Layers, recordings, and soundscapes have been all carried out with that finish function in thoughts, which made it more uncomplicated to make the entirety in finding its position.
MGM: “Love’s Memento” sticks out for its jazz-infused parts and emotional intensity. What was once the ingenious procedure like for this tune, and the way did you set up to mix such numerous influences into one cohesive observe?
Jack Kosto: I regularly say that the item that permits us to mix a lot of these parts and genres cohesively is that it’s the similar 4 folks enjoying them! It might be tremendous bizarre to have other bands from those genres play in combination, however since we’re the similar folks, our expressions, tastes, and particular person sounds come via and make the entirety really feel extra coherent than it more than likely will have to.
MGM: “Almosttown” was once selected as the primary unmarried from the album. What made it really feel like the precise option to introduce listeners to the topics and sound of A Citadel Known as House?
Jack Kosto: It was once a observe we felt was once tremendous amusing musically, and an earworm from the instant we completed writing it! It felt like a herbal first glimpse of the album, and it sort of feels find it irresistible went over quite smartly!
MGM: Taking a look forward, what concepts or plans does the band have for long run tasks or collaborations, whether or not inside Seven Spires or for your different musical endeavors?
Jack Kosto: Optimistically, a lot extra are living displays introduced quickly, and we’re itching to start out writing new track already. There are a couple of extra thrilling issues that we will’t discuss but, however all in excellent time!
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MGM’s evaluation of Seven Spires – A Citadel Known as House
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