![]() At that time, we loved each other and we had some cool chemistry, but, we weren’t able to find time to work on our relationship. They’re still in my life and we’re able to do fun things together and be creative and be better people to each other. When you’re that age, you’re like, “No, never again.” If there hadn’t been a reunion, I think that would have been fine but I’m grateful that these guys are my friends and I love these people. WALTER: Yeah, because we were all pissed off. That’s rare as hell.Īfter the initial break up, you did an interview where you said there would never be a Quicksand reunion. I think there’s no limit to what we can do creatively and I think we have a good vibe. In a lot of ways, I think we’re just getting started. I value it and want to continue the story. I enjoy what we do and there’s a lot of respect between us. We get to travel the world and see friends and have experiences, communicate, create art. I hang out with my good friends, who have been part of my life story, and get to do creative work with them. When I was younger, it seemed crazy to me that I was a professional musician. Now that you’ve released as many albums in the four years as you did in the ’90s, you’re not going to wait another 22 years for albums five and six, right? The gap between 1995’s Manic Compression and 2017’s Interiors was 22 years. ![]() I think we really just said, “Okay, what do we want to do now? Let’s say something with this album with some sort of intent.” Of course, we have our past, which is cool, but that’s like a lot of bands. It felt like we could be more contemporary if we decided to be a band that exists in the world right now. I feel like we were more focused with what we were trying to do and didn’t really feel the pressure or the baggage of the legacy of the band. ![]() And then, a week or two after releasing singles, comes the announcement that not only is a new record coming but that it’s done and will be released imminently. That was something fans like me were hoping for but just to get a new song was great. You dropped a surprise single with no immediate mention of a full album. Nowadays, things are rolled out in such a long way that it’s rare that things are surprising. I think the best thing was to drop it out of nowhere so people could be surprised. The real commitment we made was that we were paying for it ourselves, so it became, “If we don’t complete this album and if it’s not good, then not only is that going to be a bummer, but, we’re going to lose a significant amount of money.” It was a great incentive to make the best record we could possibly make and to complete it. They dropped their MBV album out of nowhere, like it just appeared and I thought that was great. With Interiors, I was going by the example of My Bloody Valentine. WALTER: We wanted to drop them out of nowhere. I don’t recall hearing that you were working on new material. Here’s what came out of those two conversations.īoth Interiors and Distant Populations were big surprises. When the call was suddenly dropped, I figured I had enough to go with but within 24 hours, Schreifels had reached out offering to continue our conversation, which we did a week later. Of course, we likely won’t know that they’re working on something new until a single drops given the history of Interiors and Distant Populations.Ī few weeks ago, Schreifels and I chatted for about 20 minutes via Zoom as he drove around New York City looking for an ever-elusive parking spot. And now, four years since the trio reunited, Quicksand has as many full length releases as they did back in the ’90s with the promise of more to come. Though periodic live reunions happened in the ensuing years, rumors of new Quicksand music didn’t come to fruition until 2017 and, by that point, personal issues led the band to drop Capone from the lineup and continue as a three piece. 1993’s Slip and 1995’s Manic Compression were the blueprints for bands like Sparta, Thursday, Drug Church and Title Fight but the all-too-common “creative differences” led Quicksand to break up in late 1995. This shouldn’t have come as a great surprise as the band did the same thing with their 2017 release, Interiors but, nevertheless, it did.Ĭoming out of the punk scene in the early ’90s, Walter Schreifels (vocals, guitar), Sergio Vega (bass), Tom Capone (guitar) and Alan Cage (drums) helped pave the way for generations of bands in the decades to follow. In April 2021, with no warning, NYC post-hardcore legends Quicksand dropped a brand new single, “Inversion”, on unsuspecting fans and then followed it up in June with the announcement that their second reunion album, Distant Populations would be released in August.
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