letlive.: "I really fucking like this record."

2015 was a quiet year for letlive. but the band still managed close to one hundred shows. A six-month break at the close of 2014 to work on the album was, “literally just the beginning. We were just scratching the surface. We had all these songs and we didn’t know how to play them together,” but as soon as the band worked it out, they “started writing on top of those things.” It was a constantly shifting beast with the band “writing and recording demos on the tour bus,” before coming home with new ideas. “We were just continually writing music for about a year until we got to go in and record.”

The abundance of ideas led to band “butting heads” until they learnt how to get out of each others way and “listen to what the songs wanted and how they wanted to be serviced.”

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The recording process wasn’t without its casualties though. At the start of the year, the band became a four piece with the departure of Jean Nascimento. “All five of us needed something else from each other and he wasn’t in a position to give that, and that’s ok,” explains Jason. “That’s how life works, especially when you’re in a band. You learn that there are things that you need as well. The most fair decision for Jean and letlive. was to let him go.” The split allowed Jean to, “do what he needs to do,” and meant letlive., “can continue to do what we need to do as a band and create. It just happened and I think, in the least offensive way possible, it was for the best. That’s what happened with that,” he underlines.