Album Notes

'Modified Suit' was an attempt to bridge Tape Recorder Threes 'soundtrack' endeavors with the crest of the alterna-rock underground. Our intial soundtrack project was techno drivin, ambient, and dark; as it was intended to provide the sonic backdrop for an independent horror film shooting in new england circa 2003. When we at last decided to escape, or, 'transcend' these present limitations, we started thinking to ourselves, "Well, if we were to attempt to alter this particular mileu of ours into an actual 'rock band', concept, what band or artist would we like to utilize as a template to kick start this endeavor?" We began with Bob Marley; as the first tracks should attest to. Why? Probably in an effort to harness the abject dreariness of our former work, whilst simutaneously endowing it with the free form lyricism, anarchic spirit and 'positive vibrations' of Marleys early work, and also, importantly, without muting the initial zeitgiest of our dark ambient material too much. In other words, we done manifest a new genre that could be dubbed (no pun intended) 'Gothic Reggae'. Having some success with this alchemical operation we then set to putting more songs together, using the same fundamental equipment as our 'soundtrack' recordings...sometimes less, but, never more. As the film we inhabited had, as its driving motif, a certain collapse into solipsistic dreaminess, these songs reflect in varying degrees that very motif. Of course, like any good songs, love, wonder, drug addiction, and communion with spirit animals all found themselves in the fold; as well, somehow, an ode to John Lennon. It is, to this date, our most accessable record, and, still (all nastalgia aside)... our favorite.