To download a secure zip file of the entire 12 track record with cover art email us at catchcamera(at)gmail.com or click here
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This is Wilderness Survival’s fourth Record. Made Feb 2008-Jan 2010. Recorded at Nick’s house in a garage converted to a studio.
“We were honestly trying to make a hit record with this one” Nick says. “We’ve done some far out stuff in the past, this time we wanted to make a straight up pop record that sounds like 12 tracks from an oldies station but with modern instruments. We just wanted every track to be a timeless pop gem.”
Of course to say that this record is a traditional power-trio pop record is not quite accurate. On the surface a simple feel good song off the album like We Cannot Lose, might sound normal, but listening more closely reveals an arrangement that is surprising simple and strangely different, a single piano key cycles through three notes over a chugging drum beat. That’s it. And yet the song sounds like a comfortable FM hit.
Or the rousing piano ballad Overnight played over an R&B style drum beat that ends with a romantic 70′s guitar solo.
Hierarchy is basically just a drum beat and a bassline, Where’s the guitar? Maybe they’re the squelches that sound more like caged elephants.
With On Belay Belay On, Nick and Shane spent a great deal of time focusing on the songwriting. “I was at a private show with Marvin Hamlisch and we were talking about songwriting and he was saying that the songwriting is what makes a classic record, all the old songs, it didn’t matter what recording gear they used, or the instruments so much as the melody and the lyrics, we wrote a lot of songs that didn’t make it onto the album, some of which will come out in subsequent B-side releases or whatever, but this one has the cream of the crop in it.” Nick says.
Coming off their last record, the sprawling Twenty-One track epic, We Were 21 In ’03, the duo wanted to make a paired down, more focused collection of songs. The way Shane puts it — “We’ll always kinda switch genres a little throughout a record ’cause the Beatles’ white album style has always been our thing, but the last record was so all over the place that this time we wanted something more straight forward, we not only like to change up the instruments and tone of songs from track to track on a record, we wanna change up the tone and sounds and feel of our stuff album to album.”
Sparse acoustic guitar songs, alternative arrangements, synth pop, suburban garage rock, and precise songwriting produce a record that is sure to be timeless.
So there you have it folks, the fourth record from the California duo Wilderness Survival. Their version of a straight ahead pop masterpiece.
Nick and Shane own a recording studio and production company. They have recorded 11 albums under the monikers Wilderness Survival and Cosmo Speedway. They have recorded songs for Sony, Coach, and NBC among others.
They've worked in various mediums including, Photography, Music, Movies, Television, Apparel, Books, Commercials and Music Videos. They are interested in entrepreneurship and the artistic process.
This website is designed to talk about, share, and discover innovation, intelligence, and efficiency in the new creative renaissance.
If you are the owner of copyrighted material and would like it removed from our site or if you have any questions.
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Nick and Shane own a recording studio and production company. They have recorded 11 albums under the monikers Wilderness Survival and Cosmo Speedway. They have recorded songs for Sony, Coach, and NBC among others.
They've worked in various mediums including, Photography, Music, Movies, Television, Apparel, Books, Commercials and Music Videos. They are interested in entrepreneurship and the artistic process.
This website is designed to talk about, share, and discover innovation, intelligence, and efficiency in the new creative renaissance.
If you are the owner of copyrighted material and would like it removed from our site or if you have any questions.
Contact us: Catchcamera(at)gmail[dot]com
Wilderness Survival – On Belay Belay On
Grosvenor and Reed seem to be trying out every kind of pop imaginable just to see what they all taste like – Stylus
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL - ON BELAY BELAY ON
01 I’m The One
02 All The Ways I Do
03 Hierarchy
04 We Cannot Lose
05 I Didn’t
06 We Fall Asleep
07 You Got To Me
08 Byzantine Love
09 Overnight
10 Catch And Release
11 Drive Me Wild
12 Well Made Ads
To download a secure zip file of the entire 12 track record with cover art email us at catchcamera(at)gmail.com or click here
———————————————————————————————————————
This is Wilderness Survival’s fourth Record. Made Feb 2008-Jan 2010. Recorded at Nick’s house in a garage converted to a studio.
“We were honestly trying to make a hit record with this one” Nick says. “We’ve done some far out stuff in the past, this time we wanted to make a straight up pop record that sounds like 12 tracks from an oldies station but with modern instruments. We just wanted every track to be a timeless pop gem.”
Of course to say that this record is a traditional power-trio pop record is not quite accurate. On the surface a simple feel good song off the album like We Cannot Lose, might sound normal, but listening more closely reveals an arrangement that is surprising simple and strangely different, a single piano key cycles through three notes over a chugging drum beat. That’s it. And yet the song sounds like a comfortable FM hit.
Or the rousing piano ballad Overnight played over an R&B style drum beat that ends with a romantic 70′s guitar solo.
Hierarchy is basically just a drum beat and a bassline, Where’s the guitar? Maybe they’re the squelches that sound more like caged elephants.
With On Belay Belay On, Nick and Shane spent a great deal of time focusing on the songwriting. “I was at a private show with Marvin Hamlisch and we were talking about songwriting and he was saying that the songwriting is what makes a classic record, all the old songs, it didn’t matter what recording gear they used, or the instruments so much as the melody and the lyrics, we wrote a lot of songs that didn’t make it onto the album, some of which will come out in subsequent B-side releases or whatever, but this one has the cream of the crop in it.” Nick says.
Coming off their last record, the sprawling Twenty-One track epic, We Were 21 In ’03, the duo wanted to make a paired down, more focused collection of songs. The way Shane puts it — “We’ll always kinda switch genres a little throughout a record ’cause the Beatles’ white album style has always been our thing, but the last record was so all over the place that this time we wanted something more straight forward, we not only like to change up the instruments and tone of songs from track to track on a record, we wanna change up the tone and sounds and feel of our stuff album to album.”
Sparse acoustic guitar songs, alternative arrangements, synth pop, suburban garage rock, and precise songwriting produce a record that is sure to be timeless.
So there you have it folks, the fourth record from the California duo Wilderness Survival. Their version of a straight ahead pop masterpiece.
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