New EP, “In Living Memory”, out now!
Bryce Aasen left TINA FEY in 2023, at which point members Shon Worthington and Logan Nichols scrapped everything and started over with a sound more focused, aggressive, sincere, and most importantly louder. After their final set of 2023, a member of local powerviolence band Stall said that TINA FEY makes, “the kind of music that I like to listen to when I’m having the worst day of my fucking life.”
In Living Memory drives three new tracks into the listener’s ears, the EP bearing a gnarly thirteen minutes of dismal, hypnotizing, grimy, hardcore-esque “grind-on-downers.” The songs were recorded by Andrew Tetrick, mixed by Johnny DeBorde (For Your Health), and mastered by Ryan Prushinski (Doom Beach).
Vocalist/guitarist Logan Nichols states, “In Living Memory is the first three songs that Shon and I wrote after Bryce left the band. That’s why the first song is called ‘No More Bryce,’ because we started working on it as soon as he left the practice space. Lyrically, it’s about the feelings I was dealing with in ending a five-year long musical relationship with a good friend. We were planning on booking studio time in November to record, but then we were offered a show at a venue that does livestream stuff so we practiced a lot in hopes that we wouldn’t make any mistakes so that we could buy the audio tracks from the venue. Thankfully we didn’t fuck up too much.”
He continues, “Everything on the EP is from that performance except for a secondary vocal track on ‘I’ve Never Been To Uvu Javer,’ the way that the vocal mic was placed at the venue prevented the mumbled parts from being isolated enough to sound good on the final recording. To preserve the sense of urgency from the performance, I routed the right speaker from a pair of headphones into an interface to use it as a microphone and recorded the secondary vocals that way. I sent everything to Johnny DeBorde to mix it and Ryan Prushinski mastered the EP. I’ve always been way into the music those guys make and over the past couple years we’ve become buds, so it was really cool to get to work with the two of them on this project.”
(Photograph by Gabrielle Hammarlund)
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