![]() ![]() Around the time Dan was with In Pieces but then they disbanded and we started getting more serious with the possibilities. Macuga: As far as eventually coalescing into “this is going to be a double album of thematically connected stuff,” I didn’t see that until a couple years later in 2005 or 2006. ![]() Noisey: At the start of writing these songs, how did your visions compare and contrast to each other? So, we chatted with the band-Barrett and Tim Macuga-about the record and some other stuff. Really, the record shows that no matter what a person does during the day, they're capable of creating something universal and larger than life if the time is put in. Music aside, Dan Barrett's transparancy and willingness to chat with anyone makes him seem more like a buddy than a musician to a lot of people. Many people could relate to the soul-sundering honesty of The Big Gloom, feel the complete emotional release of Earthmover, or just feel the infectious dancey parts of Deep, Deep. No matter where someone's tastes lay, there was something on the record for everyone, and everyone got something different out of it. As someone who spent more of their high school years on /mu/ than anywhere else, I'd say very few records received as much universal praise and attention as Deathconsciousness. Not too long after the record was released, a few users on the board picked it up, and started posting the record's album art nonstop, leaving the image of Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat burned into the retinas of regular users. After the album's release, it started gaining traction in territories one probably wouldn't expect namely 4chan's /mu/ board for music. ![]()
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