Team Sleep have debuted their new live in-studio version of their track “Ever (Foreign Flag)” below via NME. This version of the song will appear on the forthcoming “Woodstock Sessions, Vol. 4“, which found the band recording various songs in the studio live in front of fans. Vocalist Chino Moreno of (also DeftonesCrosses, etc. fame) also penned the following piece on live albums for the aforementioned site:
“I love studio albums. I love the painstaking detail of great production on a great studio album, where the band have got together with a producer and sculpted all these layers of sound into something till it’s perfect. But there’s something about live albums. The rawness of them is something that I find really compelling – listening to that band in a moment, where there’s nowhere to hide. I used to have these PJ Harvey bootlegs that I obsessed over, listening over and over to how the songs evolved into these different beasts live. There’s a curiosity to them: a sense of danger, like anything could go wrong.
Because a lot of the time, things do go wrong. Sometimes it sounds amazing and everything clicks. Other times, it sounds shit. Some of my favorite music and favorite bands – they didn’t always work live. It’s how it goes. Recently I went through some old Deftones live CDs and some songs would spontaneously sound different each night we played, which was kinda cool. There’s an uncertainty to live recordings that’s exciting.
I was really happy and relieved at how well the new Team Sleep live record turned out. The idea was kind of insane. We hadn’t played together for probably seven years but decided to give ourselves one day to rehearse, then record in front of what I guess you’d call a studio audience. It was terrifying. I’ve never released a live album before with Deftones or otherwise. I felt really nude. It could have been a catastrophe, man.
Instead, songs like ‘Your Skull Is Red’ are totally different and evolved from how they were the first time we recorded them [on Team Sleep’s 2005 debut]. It’s a cool snapshot. We got away with it!”
“Woodstock Sessions, Vol. 4” is set for a July 10th release date.
