The night time earlier than the Exies launched their new EP, Closure, frontman Scott Stevens walked the Loudwire Nights viewers by means of it, track-by-track.
“These are six songs that each one have that means to them,” Stevens informed host Chuck Armstrong on Thursday night time (June 27). “It is simply loopy. I imply, I am speaking to the blokes [in the band] and all people’s simply sort of scratching their head a bit bit. How did we get right here?”
The Exies have not launched a set of recent songs since 2007’s full-length, A Fashionable Approach of Dwelling With the Reality, their fourth album. Since then, Stevens has remained busy as a songwriter, collaborator and producer, however a number of years in the past, one thing stunned him as he was writing a track that will finally grow to be the EP’s third monitor, “s.A.D.”
“All the things being turned on its head and wanting change was the factor of that track,” Stevens mentioned as he mirrored on being impressed by the worldwide pandemic from a number of years in the past.
“There is a line that claims ‘dreaming of a future that I will by no means have,’ you recognize? However the days are getting brighter.”
Stevens admitted that writing that track led to him writing the primary official Exies track that was launched in almost 15 years, 2023’s “Spirits Excessive.”
“With out that track,” he mentioned about “s.A.D.,” ‘Spirits Excessive’ wouldn’t exist.”
Along with “Spirits Excessive” and “s.A.D.,” Closure options 4 extra new songs from the Exies, every telling a narrative of the final a number of years and every tying collectively this theme of confronting the darkness of the world whereas eager for some sense of hope.
“All of us search for issues to elevate us,” Stevens mentioned. “It is a steadiness. Not every little thing is glory on a regular basis. Typically you gotta withstand that and I believe that the songs do not attempt to sugarcoat it.”
Stevens calls these new songs “good medication.”
“It lets you recognize that I am feeling what you’re feeling and I hope you feel what I really feel.”
As for the way forward for the Exies, Stevens is focusing solely on the second, as a result of he by no means thought he’d be right here speaking about new music from the band he based in Los Angeles in 1997.
“I’ve a wishlist in my head that I am making an attempt to manifest by placing it on the market,” he admitted. “I’m speaking to my administration staff — we’re making an attempt to place it collectively. We’re making an attempt to make sense of how will we play extra reveals, how will we do that cheaply … We’re making an attempt to determine it out.”
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There isn’t any query that Closure is a welcomed place to begin for regardless of the future holds for the Exies. These six songs will little doubt remind followers of the music they fell in love with within the late-’90s and mid-’00s whereas giving them a recent, hopeful sense of what is to return.
As Stevens and Chuck wrapped their dialog, he confessed he is nonetheless unsure how he feels about being in a spot celebrating new music from the Exies.
“That is all so surreal to me. I am unable to consider that I am right here. The band was the factor that I cherished a lot and it was so exhausting to say goodbye to it or simply cease — we by no means broke up. We simply stopped … I hope you end up in [this new EP] one way or the other and may relate to this. From the darkish to the sunshine — attempt to discover the hope.”
What Else Did the Exies’ Scott Stevens Talk about on Loudwire Nights?
- How imagining Lzzy Hale singing helped him end the EP’s title monitor, “Closure”
- Why he needed Closure to loosely comply with the 5 phases of grief
- What it felt wish to play the Exies’ current reunion present on the Viper Room in Los Angeles
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