Jason Cruz of StrungOut opens up about making their new album 'Songs of Armor and Devotion'
Songs of Armor and DevotionFollowing the death of a close friend, the departure of drummer Jordan Burns and backlash from fans who didn’t like the acoustic nature of Strung Out’s 2018 EP, -- “Enough shit to break up any band,” notes Cruz -- the frontman and his bandmates indeed felt like “we were losing this, in a way ... Not losing it, but it felt, like, threatened for the first time. We really had to prove ourselves.
Cruz credits replacement drummer RJ Shankle with bringing some welcome “new blood” to the highly adrenalized set, which blazes out of the gate with the double-time fury of “Rebels and Saints” and rarely lets its foot off the pedal, though the proggy intro to “Demons” is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser. “He’s hungry, and he’s got ideas,” says Cruz of Shankle. “He can take what we’re doing and add to it. We’re lucky to have someone who’s capable of what we’re doing and adding to it — that doesn’t come along very often. We all write, we’re all very creative; to have somebody who comes in and is young and hungry and hits like a fucking demon, who’s got a head and a heart and looks good on the drums, that’s a real blessing.” during January for a fresh start in the new year, according to Cruz.
“A lot of times you just write stuff, and you don’t know why you do it,” he says. “I think as you get older, maybe you get better at trusting what you do, what’s inside you. You don’t always know how you’re going to say things or why you say things. If you try to control too much, it becomes obvious and strained. So on this [album], there’s no control. I just let it flow and trusted it will reveal its meaning in time. If you know in your heart it’s good, then you just have to go with it.
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