![]() A website like PledgeMusic can actually have a Jurassic effect on whether or not a band has the funds to make a decent record.” I used to think crowdfunding wasn’t cool because it’s like begging for money, but the fans have more involvement, and it’s like they’re getting the record faster because of it. “PledgeMusic has found a way to work with fans and in our case, they can literally watch our record being made and recorded, and they can also get a bunch of cool things that they can’t get anywhere else. ![]() Unless you’re Taylor Swift, it’s very difficult,” he laughs. The internet has done a lot of damage to a lot of people. I remember what it was like when we were all selling CDs: life was f*cking great. ![]() “For years and years I bitched about what the internet has done to music. I have to say something about what’s going on in this corrupt world we live in.”Ī post shared by Richard Patrick on at 10:24pm PDTįilter is on Wind-Up Records, which also put out their 2013 album The Sun Comes Out Tonight, but has been funding the new album with a PledgeMusic Campaign, something Patrick had mixed feelings about initially. I want to write songs about social matters. “It’s not just something to sing about because it’s dark: not one f*cking rock band is reflecting this stuff. “Nothing In My Hands” was written around Ferguson and the Michael Brown shooting, but it could be applied to any of the many race-related tragedies involving police brutality that have swept the country in recent years. “This sh*t is happening all the time… All these black kids getting killed, and for what?” Patrick is outraged, and this comes through not just in conversation, but in his new songs. What really stands out is how much the lyrics reflect what’s been going on in the U.S. I was really just trying to be as original as possible.” I’ve really been pushing my boundaries and I want to take industrial to another level and create a sound that has some guitar and symphonic elements, but also has clanging metal. What we’re doing right now is a new industrial sound. “A while ago I referred to it, somewhat jokingly, as nu-industrial and some people were excited by that and it kind of stuck. Patrick is producing the album, the first time he’s done so. We get lumped in as more of a rock band, and rightly so, especially with our last couple of releases but this is where we are in the 21 st century. Patrick explains, “The most important thing that I have to say about the new music is that it’s way more present-tense- and future-oriented. It’s Filter, but it’s also something very unique. The lyrics and vocals are filled with anger and disgust. The music is intense: contagious riffs and bass lines share their importance with drums and noise. Patrick gave Uproxx a sneak preview of the material. So Short Bus is still telling me what to do every once in a while: Don’t be safe.” It’s really informed how I have approached this new record, because I’ve been more emotionally committed and more driven: turn the mic on, scream as hard as I can and exude all the energy and leave it as raw as possible and that’s it. ![]() “It’s putting my kids through school and it’s the funnest stuff to play live. “ Short Bus really held up amazingly,” Patrick says. It set a tone the band is revisiting as it records a new album, after straying from that formula on its last few offerings. Budd Dwyer the day before he was to be sentenced on bribery charges – was, like so much of the material on Short Bus, drenched in anger, frustration, and bafflement. That project’s first song, “Hey Man, Nice Shot” – about the on-camera suicide of Pennsylvania state Treasurer R. ![]() When Swift was born, Patrick was working with Trent Reznor as the live guitarist for Nine Inch Nails, until he left to start Filter in 1993. “Taylor f*cking Swift!” He laughs and stammers ambivalently, “I like it, too… I guess. When I reach Filter frontman Richard Patrick on his phone, he is picking up his kids, a girl and a boy who are 6 and 7 years old. The album contained “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” a top-1oo hit that has endured on rock radio and in sports arenas all these years later, along with fan favorites “Dose” and “Under.”Ī lot has changed in 20 years. It’s been 20 years since the release of the platinum-selling Short Bus, which propelled Filter into the public eye. ![]()
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