ive been meaning to ask for a while what everyone thinks we'll get from these guys as far as a change-up goes with the next album(s)...
I was thinking i'd love to see them add a gues spot / extra member for the next record. would love to hear them include a violin or something to the mix and not just for a little moment here or there. I might be subconsciously leaning towards violin cuz of my love for unexpecT, but really it could be anything; strings, brass, whatever.
anyway, i dont think that's gonna happen, but based on this excerpt from a recent interview with Danny boy Briggs, I have a feeling theyre about to shake things up and change the direction of the band moving forward:
Coming back to BTBAM, ‘Parallax II’ was out in mid-2012, so it’s been almost two years. What’s the plan for the next one?
I’ve got so much on my plate right now. I’m in the middle of mixing a record for my band Orbs, and in the first week of April I go into the studio with my other band Trioscapes which is a fusion group. We’re going to recording our next album, and I’m going on tour with that band in May. BTBAM might be doing something in the summer and will probably start writing in the fall. I’ve already started writing and I probably have 3 or 4 things that have started to get a little bit developed that haven’t been shared yet. We’ll do that closer to the end of summer. You need time to decompress out of this whole Parallax world before you really settle into starting something now. I feel like it’s still pretty fresh with us, and the stuff that at least I’ve been writing is different. Doing the concept record format was so great and I’m really curious to try and take that next step further. I’ve been listening to a lot of The Who, the ‘Quadrophenia’ and ‘Tommy’ records. I love the rock opera format. It’s so cool. The stuff that I’ve been writing is kind of more over-the-top super big thematic, and I think we’re really interested to take some leaps and bounds in different directions. We’ve done this thing pretty solidly for a couple of records and we’ve got to see what else is out there.
interesting stuff. no matter what they do, im confident theyre gonna kill it.
well I can't speak for everyone here, dudeman, but I for one am expecting some crazy new territory (possibly subconsciously expect it based on the Briggs quote you've provided)...I'm thinking maybe they'll sound at varying times like Queen (on steroids), Muse (on steroids), The Smashing Pumpkins (on steroids), Oingo Boigo (on steroids), King Crimson (on steroids), Candiria (on steroids...if that's possible), Porcupine Tree (on HGH), and Closure In Moscow (on roids AND acid), amongst others.
sorry it took so long to get back to you, dudeman...I meant to, then put it off, then forgot a few times. You know how it goes. Regardless, I'm surely as stoked as you are.