Maybe our natural habitat is an elevated stage at a bar on a Thursday night, Caryn breaking hearts while the boys work the groove in the background. We had a great time at Lighthouse and we’re already following up on an invitation to come back. Thanks to all who came out and cheered us on.
Thanks to Karyn Johnston Photography for performance photos.
As we all have multiple lives and pursuits, teaching gigs and family gigs in addition to our music gigs, it’s fun when some of these overlap. The College of Science at Weber State gave us this space to describe what we do, acknowledging Tim and Adam’s not-so-secret personas in chemistry and physics. (Our interview during the recent Van Session brought this up, too.) So Adam wrote up this piece on their webpage to describe the weaving of our multiple identities.
It’s not as though this has been a secret, but we’ve been keeping it to ourselves until everything was ready.
And now, it’s ready.
We spent an afternoon in the studio and recorded stuff worthy of your favorite speakers or headphones. Either way, turn it up to 11 and listen.
You can go to the dedicated samples page (substandards.band/samples) where there’s a description of each track (plus one bonus demo track!), or push the play button on the player in the side bar (often pushed to the bottom if you’re reading this on a smaller device), or let us know if you’d like these in another format and we’ll be delighted to share them with you.
While you’re listening, here’s a few snapshots from The Proper Way studios on a Saturday afternoon. When we look back on this, we were clearly having a good time playing through the live takes to get each track just like we wanted it. It was also intimidating and stressful. But you’d never know now. We’re proud of these, and grateful that we got to do this. We hope you enjoy it, too.
Remember that time we got to play Jazz at the Station? We’re still tickled about that. Being up on a stage in that giant hall where the sound hangs in space, all in front of old friends and new friends — this all makes for a really fun gig.
Since then, we’ve been keeping to ourselves but busy working. In the next couple of days we should have something new to share!
Edit: A few days later in the studio, we’d record a demo of the same song while we were checking microphones. It’s fun to play with the variation the song affords.
We got photos that we really like. As usual, Caryn looks fabulous. The rest of us went to the trouble to comb our hair.
We’re saving another photo we like for some future tour poster. It will be a collector’s item.
Thanks to Karyn Johnston, kjohnstonphoto.smugmug.com. All bands should be so lucky.
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