The Devil Wears Prada: Craft work

Transition noun 1.the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

This is the road on which The Devil Wears Prada sits. Eyes ahead. Band evolving. Always. The process has been accelerated since 2013’s ‘8:18’, their own appetite to evolve teamed with the departure of drummer Daniel Williams and guitarist Chris Rubey. No reasons offered, just amicable statements aplenty. It’s enough to throw some off track, but not them. Forward they continue, with the theme of transition at the core. “It feels fluid to me,” says vocalist Mike Hranica, on these shifts in the band. “It feels quite natural. I think that as we have gotten older and gone from being 16 years old to 27 years old, there’s been so many changes and we have always done our best to adapt.” Adapt they have, with ‘Transit Blues’ being the latest triumph in the face of huge change. “I feel it’s completely automatic to evolve ones musical tastes,” he explains, “especially where I have grown in my own tastes and influences, and the same with the other guys in the band. That totally influences what we do and what feels immediate to make a song about or what tonality to use, or just all the million aspects of creating a song. It’s growing older, evolving our influences as well as just trying to be better at our craft. “We have the ability know to surround ourselves with guys who aren’t complacent with just playing guitar or playing drums. It’s something that’s a passion and is part of our lives. I feel that way about writing and playing guitar and getting to use that every time we come back, to start writing more, and it creates songs that are evolutionary, and don’t get mucked together or don’t evolve enough. “It all feels pretty terrific and if it didn’t, I think we would all be pressing the brakes.”