Team Sleep are back with another live in the studio track, this time it being their song “Your Skull Is Red“. You can stream it below. It is taken from the bands nearing “Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4” release, which hits stores this Friday, July 10th. The song is one of many that were recorded live in front of fans across a two-day recording session at Applehead Studios in upstate NY late last year. Should you have been hoping for an official sophomore album, fret not. Chino Moreno told Noisey:
“The reason why we’ve been up there in Woodstock is because the guys had been recording what will be the actual second LP. The second record. But I don’t know yet if we’re gonna release that as an LP or an EP but I think there’s talk of each one, but still we have an albums worth of material that I’m super proud of and I think everyone’s super proud of. I think it’s worthy of a great second record. in my opinion it’s sort of like a legacy project for me. The first record came out ten years ago but it still holds up. It’s still relevant, I think with this second record it has these timeless sort of songs in it that hopefully after we’re long gone that I think they still have something in them. They’ll have that lasting power to them. So hopefully that is gonna come out sometime probably next year.”
Some further excerpts from that chat can be found can be found below.
On recording the ‘Woodstock Sessions‘ album:
“…Honestly a lot of that stuff with Team Sleep has not really been on hiatus but everybody’s kind of just doing other things. But it has been worked on over the years with demos being made and things being sent around which has kept it alive. Todd has spearheaded a lot of what has now become the new record and kind of just kept it alive which has been great and because I don’t live in Sacramento anymore I don’t get to spend as much time around those guys as id like to.
So we made this new music in a very unconventional way, every year we’ll finish a couple songs. And I think we finally got to a point where we have a whole album’s worth of really, really great material, and we’ll work on breaks. Todd‘s a school teacher so it’s pretty much spring break or summer time or Christmas break. We’ll get together for a few days and work on some stuff together live, and then the rest of it’s all sort of post production stuff and putting stuff together over the web.”
On growing up with music and not limiting his choices:
“…I think that’s the greatest part about music in general or being a lover of music is that you gravitate towards certain things for whatever reason, and I’ve never really shut myself off to that. I was never told that you cant like this or you shouldn’t like that or whatever and so my taste is all over the place and sometimes it’s really silly and I don’t mind that I sort of embrace that. I love the fact that like, last week one of my favorite songs was by Nick Jonas, you know what I mean? Like i’m proud of that. Like wow, I love the fact that I can connect to this, where i’m a 42 year old man connecting with Nick Jonas [laughs] its just kind of– I appreciate that kind of stuff you know? It’s what it is.”
On Team Sleep potentially touring and their future plans:
“I think if we do stuff we’re gonna try to do more of a quote on quote boutique sort of manner. The show should be something special, events where we’ll go and play one show here and one show there. I think that the idea of this project is it started out crazy, it started out to be not a band and a project. Really the initial thing was me, DJ Crook, and Todd. Everything was very lo-fi on a 4trak set recorder, and the idea was never to have a band and go out and tour and do this.
It sort of grew into the idea and it was fine and it was fun up to a point where it became too much like a band where we were told to get in a bus and travel through every small city in the U.S. and around the world and to try to build it up from the ground up. Maybe I was a little jaded at that time and I just didn’t want to do that again. At that point I had just spent the last ten or twelve years with Deftones doing that and as much as I like doing the project, I didn’t wanna do that again and it sort of sucked the fun out of it.
The reason why we’ve been up there in Woodstock is because the guys had been recording what will be the actual second LP. The second record. But I don’t know yet if we’re gonna release that as an LP or an EP but I think there’s talk of each one, but still we have an albums worth of material that I’m super proud of and I think everyone’s super proud of. I think it’s worthy of a great second record. in my opinion it’s sort of like a legacy project for me. The first record came out ten years ago but it still holds up. It’s still relevant, I think with this second record it has these timeless sort of songs in it that hopefully after we’re long gone that I think they still have something in them.
They’ll have that lasting power to them. So hopefully that is gonna come out sometime probably next year. And when that happens that’s probably when we’ll probably do some shows I’m thinking but up until then it’s this live record and just of feeling it out. Especially since there’s been some changes made as well with Gil Sharone coming in and playing drums and some other things so we just kind of wanted to pick up where we left off and see where we’re at. I think this live record was a good little kick start for us mentally, that we still enjoy doing it and still do it.”
There’s a lot more from Moreno to be read over at Noisey.
