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KP: What is the significance of the name, ‘The Tim: Having to scrap the first recording hurt, but then
Out?’ we gave it another shot, and the record became so

much more. Not only did we start to get our swagger
Ace: As I am a huge fan of bands like Kiss and back we took the time to really dig into the material.
Queen, and that type of androgyny in a name has Breaking these songs down was a great experience.
always helped to create a level of mystery around The experimentation that happened directly led to
those bands. I wanted to come up with something Bob’s addition to the band. We decided it might be
simple and memorable, and mysterious with a lot fun to find places to put keys in the record. We
of different connotations. While brainstorming intended these keyboard parts to be subtle and not

ideas, I fell asleep on my couch with pen and paper required live. However, we got carried away in the
in hand while ESPN classic was on TV. They were moment and now the album is full of keyboard parts
airing some documentary about a World Series that are not only essential live but have completely
from the late 50s, early 60s, and though I’m not changed the context of some of the songs. This
really a baseball fan, I remember waking up just as paved the way for us adding Bob on bass so I could
one of the former players being interviewed saying be a multi-instrumentalist live. This made recording
something along the lines of ‘if we would have just the record twice totally worth it.
gotten the out, we would have won the game.’ It
was kind of a eureka moment: The Out. It was KP: Which song from this album is the most

simple and could have a lot of different meanings, meaningful to you and why?
and it stuck.
Ace: It would have to be ‘And Then There’s You,’ a
KP: Please share with our readers the process song about losing that one opportunity with
of making your debut album ‘No Simple someone that you never had a stronger connection
Landing.’ with, and the heartbreak that goes along with that.
Lyrically, that is the subject matter. There are

Ace: Thank you so much! We are really proud of it references to alcoholism while musically, I take the
and truly amazed and excited by some of the listener on a ride through a series of emotions as it

responses we have been getting from our friends progresses. That middle instrumental section kind of
and peers that have heard the record. We had hits you like a car crash with the tempo change. It’s
been working on these songs and refining them for almost metal, and the guitar solo is meant to create
a few years before we felt we were ready to go in a dissonance in a tear-your-heart-out sort of way.
and record, and this is the second recording of the Then it comes to a stop where it hangs and then the
album. The first studio we went to, we just were not band slowly comes back in for one last chorus.
happy with the mixes and the overall sound. In There is just a lot of emotion in that song for me.

some ways, we were disenfranchised with the
whole experience. Luckily, we were able to use
those rough mixes as blueprints when we went into
Radio City Records and recorded with Tim Waters.
The whole experience was amazing and fun, and
he really helped and pushed us creatively and
brought everything together in a cohesive manner.
We gave him the reigns in a more producer-style
role than we had ever worked with before, and he
made us feel comfortable and got the best out of
us. Most of my guitar tracks were one take, and this
is the first time I have ever liked the sound of my
own voice on recordings.

Adam: We’ve been working on these songs for a
few years now. Some songs have taken on
different forms as we have had member changes
throughout the years. We completed production on
the album in 2020 right as the pandemic hit. We
have been waiting for things to open back up so we
can properly support the album with shows and
promotions.