I think with the attention span of the masses now and how accessible music is, you have to expedite your material and your records.

Our last record took so long, and I know we didn’t want to take as long with this record. Gavin Hayes: It’s just the way things work now. Y Spy: Were there any specific reasons why this one took less time to make as opposed to the spans between your past releases? It was written and recorded within a year. He wrote the initial music and then we added to it and I wrote and sang the lyrics. I think on three of these tracks, if all three make it, it will be a sort of Dredg/Dan the Automator collaboration. We’re also doing this record with Dan the Automator, who’s an artist as well.

I’d say about 80% of the record was written remotely. I’ve been living in Seattle for the past couple years, so most of this record was written remotely by email and sending music back and forth. Gavin Hayes: Actually this was a much different approach than pretty much all our records. Gavin Hayes: We finished recording it it’s currently being mixed and will probably be mastered and totally finished in mid-November. Y Spy: What’s the status of the new album? In our conversation, Hayes also discussed his recent status as Seattle exile, the band’s increased velocity, and stories of treasure hunts and fake cops. Yet if their choice of producer – hip-hop impresario Dan the Automator – is any indication, basic won’t equal predictable. Last year’s “The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion” stands as one of the most forward-thinking and imaginative rock records in recent memory, and yet Dredg is by no means content to rest on those laurels.Ĭurrently on tour supporting Circa Survive, Dredg is also making the final preparations for its newest release, an as-yet-untitled work which vocalist Gavin Hayes describes as more stripped down than Dredg’s recent output.

Mixing anger with orchestration, sound with visual art, the band is nothing if not ambitious.

Dredg has built a long career out of taking rock music to unexpected and panoramic heights.

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