North Carolina band American Aquarium is set to release their anticipated album Wolves much to their fan’s delight. The recording of the album was a hard-won success that has not only been important to the band’s popularity but also may have kept them from breaking up and calling it quits.
After hard years spent on tour with little to show for it, the band fully intended to call it quits after recording the 2012 album Burn.Flicker.Die.
“There was kind of that moment where we were like, what now?” lead singer BJ Barham says.
“We wrote the last chapter, now we’re going back and doing something else. It really freed us up in the studio to experiment and do things we’d never done before.”
For starters, American Aquarium spent twice as long in the studio as the musicians ever had before, thanks to a fan-funded Pledgemusic campaign that raised money to record Wolves.
“They gave us enough money to go in the studio for 13 days and then we left for a month and went back in for seven more days and fixed all the stuff we didn’t like,” Barham says.
“Our fans gave us a major-label record making opportunity without us having to sign our souls away to a major label, and for that, we will always be grateful.”
Wolves comes out Feb. 3 and is available for pre-order here.