Somehow Disappearing
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Somehow Disappearing was an album years in the making, perhaps the band's most realized work, though it would eventually prove to be an outlier in the catalog. Driven by the new core of Mike Law, Chris DeAngelis, and Alan Cage of Quicksand, (who joined in 2007) the band reconvened a few months after the van crash in Germany derailed the momentum the U.S. and European tours had generated. Basically a new band was being formed and it was very different from the early recordings of Law and Brodsky. Practices began in early 2008 after Law's experimentations with synths while healing broken bones in what would become the Quiet Prism EP. Those songs were set aside for the time being and Michael DeBennedeto was suggested as a bass player. 2008 was filled with twice weekly band practice in Brooklyn and a great camaraderie. Early songs like "Strange Language" and "Autumn You" leaned more pop sounding and intended at first to be stand alone singles, but along with them came a half dozen songs which would eventually be cut from contention to be recorded. Those tracks were heavier than what would end up on the album. An intended single played on the previous European tour called "Passenger" also never found it's way to release.
Law: We put a lot of work in, a lot, and things were changing fast. There were some mood swings in the material but it was serious business to us. Chris DeAngelis is one of the hardest working people I've ever met. At first he still lived in Boston and would ride the bus back and forth in the same day for a single band practice. He had a laser focus, was the best musician of the group and helped me understand my own songs a lot better. I had written way too many songs for The World Is Bright and Lonely and I really wanted to make a statement with Somehow Disappearing so we cut more songs than we kept. We had been lucky enough to meet Andy LeMaster who would go on to produce the album and we had him up to our studio for two full weeks which was a real luxury back then to have that kind of studio time. We tracked an entire album and started passing it around. We got good feedback but we were trying to go WAY beyond what we did on previous albums so it was decided that we'd record another four songs. Those were Thorns, Summer Lion, Halluminations and Magic Key. This sent me back down to Athens, Georgia where Andy lived to finish work on the album. I basically spent every cent I had tracking an album and a half's worth of material after writing about 25 songs with the band and editing them down. We all had a unified focus. I'll never forget watching Alan track song after song in one take only needing to run one back if someone had a suggestion. Andy mixed Halluminations as close to how something sounded in my head as I'd gotten to that point and Mike D wrote some fantastic bass lines including my favorite of his for the last track, "Come Outside." We took some wrong turns here and there sonically that were my fault but we were ready musically. I think the recorded ended up great overall. We wrote it to play in larger room and theaters and we were lucky enough to to that. It sounded great on big sound systems"
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