It was like just being in a band with your mates from school.ĭidn’t it feel like starting over again, or was it more like getting on the bike again, after a few years? It was kind of like, a Tuesday night band practice, we all get together. We did a bunch of rehearsals there for a few weeks. for three months, and we just went to this house in Hollywood. We all live in Los Angeles now, except Stephen, he’s the one holdout, he’s still back in San Francisco. It was great to get together and just hang out and it was like band practices.

It was nice to really just talk to each other and not shouting over loud drums and the bass player won’t stop playing, that kind of stuff. It was a long period of anticipation and when we got together in West Hollywood and started doing rehearsals for the new record, we just had this idea that we’d all just sit around a campfire, and play acoustic guitars and the vocal would be the most important part of the whole thing. What was it like reuniting after being isolated from each other since the pandemic? It must have been great to be reunited.

Then it was like Oh, we’ve put it into this record and you can actually put it on the turntable little spin around and make them dance. I think he did the drawing, and it was just this little zoetrope idea. I think it was Danny, maybe that heard about the idea, he’s one our techs. I think we’re just playing around with those ideas when we were talking about the art for the record. How did you guys come up with that concept? So you take the zoetrope and tape the ends together and put it onto your turntable or your record player and turn it on, it will animate that sequence. The CDs, we just saw them actually the other day and the CDs have zoetrope inside it. It’s a still, like an animated sequence from one of the music videos. Why did you guys select that art for the cover? There’s a tiny animation of the cover on Twitter. The video for our single “Goodbye to the Days of Ladies and Gentlemen”, the video there is a direct homage to Godard. We took a lot of inspiration aesthetically from the artwork to do that. I think the title is a homage to Jean-Luc Godard. The new album is out, why did you guys call it “Our Bande Apart”? Kryz checked in to chat about the album and the band’s unforgiving musical approach.

The new album “Our Bande Apart” is really Third Eye Blind giving a giant middle finger to COVID-19 and making the best album they could as a cohesive and united band. For Third Eye Blind and its guitarist Kryz Reid, it gave the band a new sense of purpose and a hardcore desire to build a stronger band and a stronger relationship by being together. The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone in very different ways.

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