Album Notes

Departure is the result of a handful of short collaborative improvisation sessions. Through this project, we were able to experiment with different song writing styles and experience those strong, sudden bursts of creativity that occasionally emerge when one writes under pressure. What came out was intense, but not exactly what we expected: electronic beats, fuzz bass, claps, clanging pots, declarations, conversations, slams, worldly anxiety, sweat, and the sound of an open hand slap.

This project started back in June of 2005. We (Billy Gray and Adam N. Copeland, members of Jersey City, NJ band The Meltdowns) spent whatever spare time we could snatch from work and sleep to write and record this music with vocalist Andrew Morgan before he left for Japan in late August of 2005. We wanted to start a band that could only last a couple months, using the time limit to pressure ourselves to write new songs about our lives and the world around us. Through this project, we were able to experiment with different song writing styles and experience those strong, sudden bursts of creativity that occasionally emerge when one writes under pressure.