Everybody wants a peice of FNM...Roddy Bottum and Mike Bordin have been busy this week giving interviews to various media outlets, talking about the upcoming new album 'Sol Invictus'
“The way we used to make records was necessarily and unequivocally in a room together making music. Those times have changed for sure,” Bottum says wistfully. “It’s super convenient to make a record these days, but at the same time, we chose to go the analogue route. All of the pianos you hear on the record are real pianos done from our studio. So it did take all of us being there in the same room, but not always at the same time. It’s a convenient age in which we live, it’s easy to get certain stuff done. More in terms of different electronic sounds, or finding different realms of music. But for a band like Faith No More, I feel like we’ve pretty much stuck to the roots. Making music in the band, we’re all really good friends and we respect each other, and we’re all going for a common goal. Stuck there in a room in Oakland.” Roddy tells The Beat
Roddy continues to enthuse over the new album in a separate interview with 13th Floor
MD: Hey, what the heck. It’s one thing to be on the stage and be playing songs from 20 years ago, it’s another thing to be in the studio together working on new stuff. What was the vibe like when you got into the studio?
RB: Well it was different, it was sort of like spread out, like different people came in at different times, there were times when we were all together and working on stuff.
MD: Right.
RB: For the most part it was like people configured in different things. So it was like really highly charged, isolated moments of performance. I went out to San Francisco, everyone else lives in San Francisco, I live in New York and I went out there and did all the piano parts at one point and that was really super tense but a lot of fun. We work together really well, we have a language that we all sort of count on and we all speak together and its an easy go of it. We have such a long history amongst the five of us, four of us and five of us that it’s just very casual, very much like a family, getting together with old friends and it feels good.
Meanwhile Bordin speaks with real excitement to Australian based Music Feeds
“Everything is represented on this album,” “You’ve got our singer, Mike [Patton], with his range of talents and breadth of skills. Our bass player is particularly talented at creating these atmospheres and environments with his production and arrangements. Everyone’s ideas are in this record. There’s enough rock, there’s enough crunch, there’s enough melody, there’s enough darkness. All the elements are there.
“It’s not just one guy and one thing when it comes to Faith No More. It never has been. It’s about the value that each of us puts on music.”
“The effort and the participation that went into this record was just incredible,” Bordin enthuses. “I’m so excited and I’m so fired up about letting out and finding out what people think of it. I love this record. I really believe in it. I know that not everyone is going to like it – I mean, it’s Faith No More! That is never going to change. It’s never going to be what people expect. For my money, though, it’s a damn good record. It’s the best thing we could do at this time, by far.”