"At first a lot of people didn't get it-They either liked one side of us or the other. As always, the punk outbursts are balanced with real melodies and well-crafted arrangements. While Tomorrow Come Today represents their most intensive work in the studio, you can also hear the ferocious band sound that Gray, Latshaw, guitarist Chad Istvan, drummer Matt Krupanski, and bassist Rob Avery have developed through their relentless touring. The progression has come through on each new release: Consider (1996), The Day The Sun Went Out (1997), In Chrysalis (1998) and After The Eulogy (2000). Since their first self-financed single, BoySetsFire have challenged themselves to push further with each recording. People may still think we're full of shit, but at least we've gotten them to listen to somebody else's opinion." We're not into weird conspiracy theories, we're just trying to make sense of what's going on in the world. If this is going to be our first mainstream album, that means we should be showing people who we are and what our mission really is. "I honestly went out of my way to make this our most political album. Not only does Nathan Gray possess one of the post-hardcore circuit's most distinctive voices, he's also a lyricist who pulls few punches. We really hate dead air."Īt the same time, the band continues to use its songwriting as a means for serious political discourse. That's how the interludes between songs came about-we do those onstage with a sampler, so we figured, why not have them on the record as well. We even agonized about how it flows from one song to another. "We really tried to make an album, not just a collection of songs. We must have demo-ed the album three times, and if a song wasn't holding up we'd wind up saying 'That sucks, get rid of it'." We couldn't have someone stepping in and saying that a song was too metal or too pop, because we need to have everything in there. He knew we were a weird band, that our approach was pretty unique, so that was no problem. Our producer wanted to make sure that the best songs always came out. We worked on everything, from agonizing over guitar sounds, to writing and re-writing the songs. After The Eulogy took a month, but this took over three months to do. Guitarist Josh Latshaw says on the official BSF website : Produced by Dave Fortman, it's their most accomplished album to date, but that doesn't mean they've left their punk roots or their lyrical conscience behind. With "Tomorrow Come Today", BoySetsFire takes the next, confident step. Een doorbraak naar de grote massa zit er zeker in." "Alle hardcore-, metalcore- en emobands van dit moment kunnen wel inpakken, want alles wat dit jaar binnen die genres moet worden geschreven, is te vinden op 'Tomorrow Comes Today.' Een plaat van overweldigende klasse: heavy, evenwichtig en excentriek. Oor (april 2003) schrijft over "Tomorrow Come Today":
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