into the oven you go.

to me the human condition (the water in which my music tends to swim) is in some ways the slow realization magic does not exist. the idealizations one has as a child are chipped away by the lubrication of life; we slowly discover there is no santa claus, no salvation as we were promised. until the horror goes is in some ways the musical manifestation of that screaming child rejecting the intimacy and connection for which it cries; the endless quest for the sublime uncovering only the inane. the feeling of aloneness in the universe while connecting with everyone else feeling alone and laughing at the simple irony we all feel alone together.

"I produced the pAper chAse only really in the capacity that I was kind of the main guy in the band and we didn't have any money and so couldn't really afford to hire a proper producer. I think I was 23 or maybe younger when we made Young Bodies Heal Quickly... and what you're hearing on that is essentially somebody who had all these ideas about things he wanted to try on recordings but couldn't do on other people's records. It was just like, 'Oh, what happens if we take the drums and do this to them?' There just wasn't a lot of experimentation that I could do back in those days [with other artists]. A lot of what I did probably weren't great ideas, but I got them out of my system at least. For me, it was like, 'I'm just going to destroy the sound as much as possible! I'm going to try everything I can that I've always wanted to try. Maybe it'll be terrible but maybe it'll be cool!'