However, it’s in the visceral experiences of thirty-something crises where he fully discovered it. Virginity plays punk music written through a mature lens.Ĭasey Crawford could mark across a map to symbolize the far-reaching influences where he began honing his voice. Like I said, we love these songs and I hope everyone that listens can hear the work, blood, sweat, and tears that went into it.” We set out to try to make POPMORTEM something a little grander than its individual parts and, while everyone may not agree that we accomplished that, I feel like we got there. It’s almost like we made all the pieces for a jigsaw puzzle that only Jack could put together and he did so beautifully. Now that we’re on the other side of that and I’ve had nearly a year to live with the record, I feel like it was the only decision to make. We also brought in outside help for the first time in having the powerful Jack Shirley (Rosenstock, Deafheaven) mix and master the record for us. As we got closer and closer to wrapping it up, we started getting a better picture of exactly what the record could be and, at that point, I think we all pushed even harder. If we didn’t all love some aspect, we kept at it until we did. We wrote and rewrote stuff from the ground up multiple times and scrapped maybe 8 songs entirely in the process. We spent hours on guitar tones and sections of the music. There are always happy accidents when you’re making art, but I’ve never worked on anything as intentional as this. We pushed ourselves every time we were demoing or working in the studio to make interesting decisions and not allow our previous work or our genre to define those choices. The actual process of putting these songs together was some of the most challenging creative work I’ve ever been a part of, but I feel like at the end of the day-regardless of what anyone else has to say about it-we accomplished what we were aiming for, which is a record with a collection of songs that we all really love and are just so fucking proud of. More than a few of the tracks are literally about writing songs and my frustrations (and joy) with that process, as well as some reflection on tropes within the songwriting arena. Despite seeming heavy, the emotions are juxtaposed by their signature adult emo sound.Ĭomments vocalist Casey Crawford: “ POPMORTEM as an album is all about the songs, which may seem redundant but I mean that both literally and figuratively. From lost friendships to fleeting time and everything in between, Virginity encapsulates the feeling of riding life’s roller coasters throughout their tracklist. The collection of songs masterfully create sing-alongs out of sadness through the band’s quirky, authentic, and self aware approach to punk. Today VIRGINITY unveil their newest album “POPMORTEM” via Smartpunk Records.
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