With their new album ‘No More Sound’ out now, we asked the four members of Sad Park to tell us everything we needed to know about the record.
→ Aidan
My favourite memory from recording this album was the very last day we had in the studio; pretty much everything was wrapped up, and in the last couple hours we had left, Sean (our producer) said that he wanted to run a couple vocal takes for the last song on the album.
The last song, ‘No More Sound’, had always meant a lot to me and had been one of the songs that I really connected to since we first wrote it. Sam and I were sitting at the computer, recording Sean doing these takes of this song, and it gave me chills; hearing someone like Sean, who I’ve looked up to and been inspired by for so long, sing one of my band’s songs was definitely one of the coolest moments I was lucky enough to be a part of.
To this day, listening to that song with Sean singing on it gives me chills.
→ Sam
We always knew the ending of ‘Carousel’ needed something… It wasn’t until Sean handed me his Boss Harmonist pedal at the end of a session and said, “Do something with this”, that we figured out what it was. In an unorganised “after hours” session with myself, Aidan and Erik Jimenez from Together Pangea, we chaotically wrote and pieced together a guitar solo. We all played a part in it, putting its pieces together like a musical Frankenstein. We halfway didn’t expect to use it… But once it was finished, we listened back, and I remember Erik saying, “Holy shit, this is actually good”. It ended up making the record and being the missing piece that the song always needed.
