(uptempo bass music) (uptempo bass music) (uptempo bass music) - This is Catamaran, and this is our "Sound on Tap."

- [Drummer] Yeah, I'm ready.

(drum sticks clanking) (uptempo rock music) ♪ You can give out ♪ Hole in you heart ♪ All that you suffer is smoke and water ♪ ♪ Keeping you up ♪ Bottle's undone ♪ Pulling the rug, now it's do or die ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ You can make up ♪ All that you are ♪ Throw one away now you've got another ♪ ♪ Lost in the sound ♪ Oh my god ♪ There is nothing left to realize ♪ ♪ Is it really so hard ♪ When you know that it feels right ♪ ♪ Then you've got no time to waste ♪ ♪ And you've come along so far ♪ Double down and you just might ♪ ♪ Find a way to make it stay (uptempo rock music) ♪ You can catch up ♪ Only so far ♪ Following fast, but it's never over ♪ ♪ Push off the ground, ♪ Oh my god ♪ There is nothing left to realize ♪ ♪ Is it really so hard ♪ When you know that it feels right ♪ ♪ Then you've got no time to waste ♪ ♪ And you've come along so far ♪ Double down and you just might ♪ ♪ Find a way to make it stay (uptempo rock music) ♪ Is it so hard (uptempo rock music) ♪ Is it so hard (uptempo rock music) ♪ Is it so hard (uptempo rock music) ♪ Is it so hard (uptempo rock music ends) - Back in about 2010, (upbeat music) met a guy named Tom, a friend of a friend in Dallas, I just kind of moved there for work, same as him, and he lived pretty close to us, and like I said, mutual friend, and so we started talking about music, and then that led to kind of jamming, and then we kind of got into watching shows locally at Granada Theater, and other places, and just really into music and wanted to start a band.

I'd been in bands before, I think he'd been in a few, but I just wanted to make an indie band, kind of surfy, indie, whatever, rock-pop, sort of in the middle, light rock, maybe.

Yeah, from there, we were working out of his apartment with an acoustic guitar, and maybe an electric guitar, and making demos essentially in GarageBand, and then we posted it on Craigslist tried to find other people, we tried to find a vocalist, I wasn't planning on being the vocalist initially, and we looked for a bassist as well, so we found one, found a guitarist too and tried some vocalists, I ended up just trying to do the vocals myself, and yeah, then we've had a few different bassists over the years.

Right now the members are me, Tom and Chris on bass.

But for live shows, Tom and Chris are not able to commit to those at this point.

So we've got some hired hands, so that's who play with us today.

It was mainly just a long, slow process of writing the album, and also recording it, and mixing it, and then releasing it.

So everything just kind of took a long time for various reasons, I have health issues, me moving, people being busy and stuff.

So, I think the recording of this album was in 2018, and then we also did kind of a search for getting a label to pick it up.

So we signed with Very Jazzed to help us with the release, and all that takes time, and so the release, we had a release plan to kind of release some singles, space them out and try to get traction on the Spotify algorithm.

and all these things, build up our Instagram, and stuff like that, and so it took a while to get out, but it came out, I guess, 2021, last year, yeah.

(uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ Baby, I was alive many years ago ♪ ♪ It's hard when you don't even try ♪ ♪ I wanna know why ♪ I wanna have it all for you ♪ To give to me, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ Could have been a past life ♪ I could have been some other guy ♪ ♪ It feels like I belong by you ♪ (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ Maybe I wasn't right to go on my own ♪ ♪ It's hard when you don't even try ♪ ♪ I wanna know why ♪ I wanna have it all with you ♪ So have me too, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ Could have been a past life ♪ And I could have been some other guy ♪ ♪ Feels like I belong by you (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ Could have been a past life ♪ I could have been some other guy ♪ ♪ Feels like I belong by you (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music ends) An I want to adjust that once everybody's playing.

- Yeah.

(Stephen clearing throat) (drumsticks clanking) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ Dull eyes that stare at empty walls ♪ ♪ Your breath is uneven (uptempo rock music) ♪ All night aware, your sleep is stalled ♪ ♪ A call from the deep end ♪ So quiet there beneath it all, it shows who you are now ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ No sky, thick air that weighs you down ♪ ♪ You're weak from the poison (uptempo rock music) ♪ Searchlights invade like hazy gowns ♪ ♪ The beast has awoken ♪ Slow fire scares us the walls ♪ ♪ And shows who we are now (uptempo rock music) ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ They came for Jacob and Raj ♪ They came for Gretel and Marge ♪ ♪ They came for Amon then me ♪ Where are you ♪ They're outside ♪ Where are you ♪ They're outside ♪ Where are you ♪ They're outside ♪ You always run (uptempo rock music) ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Always run, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ (uptempo rock music ends) - [Interviewer] How was the show last night?

(case thudding) - It was good.

Good turn out, small in the living room, it felt nice and cozy.

(uptempo guitar music) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ So, what do I have to tell you ♪ ♪ When its all been said before ♪ ♪ Your hips they swing so magically ♪ ♪ As you skim the jungle floor (uptempo rock music) ♪ If I could just get a little smile ♪ ♪ For a moment, we would know ♪ If the vines that bind us naturally ♪ ♪ Would return to dust or grow (uptempo rock music) ♪ Warm thoughts approaching the back of the spine ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Bright eyes in darkness, alone in the night, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ So what do I have to tell you ♪ ♪ When its you with all the power ♪ ♪ An awkward dance in the canopy ♪ ♪ And displays of blood red flowers ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Warm thoughts approaching the back of the spine ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Bright eyes in darkness, alone in the night, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ Come, my lovely, be my only ♪ You're the person ♪ The girl I love ♪ Have the courage, have the patience ♪ ♪ To interpret a life undone ♪ And I could waste my whole life ♪ ♪ To accomplish a lie ♪ But you've got sway, like tops of leafy oceans ♪ ♪ That never run dry ♪ Oceans that never run dry ♪ I want you, come over ♪ I need you, come over ♪ I've got you, it's over ♪ It's over, it's over ♪ Warm thoughts approaching the back of the spine ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Bright eyes in darkness, alone in the night, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ Oh, Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Oh, Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Oh, Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Oh (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music ends) - Everybody that's listened to it, likes it a lot, so we got a lot of plays.

(upbeat music) That just comes down to having kind of a built in audience.

I think we got a lot of radio play on the KKXD, they call it KXD down in Dallas, it's an independent radio station.

We've had all around playing on that station a while, I think they are now playing "Pink Hair."

So we've kinda have a fan base built off of that, and so we're getting plays from that, but also we've gotten onto some playlists, like you may know, BIRP FM, we've gotten onto their Spotify playlists with some of our tracks, and all that kind of adds up.

Indie & Folk Radio also picked us up on their playlists.

So yeah, I think it's been great, just trying to get the word out more.

We're still a small, not well known band, and I don't like really running social media, so I'm always gonna be doing a bad job on that, but I basically use it just to post when a show is happening, that's pretty much it.

At this point, we have some songs that are done kinda on the back burner.

If we do record again, it would be probably those first, but now we're not actively meeting up to write at this point.

So if new songs were to come out, it'd probably be from me writing stuff at home, and shipping it to them, and then them tweaking it, and probably writing that way.

It was weird 'cause I actually got nervous in a live setting for the first time.

I don't remember being nervous like that, like our first show back for Bleach Kings, I didn't ever feel uncomfortable on stage, usually maybe the first minute or first half song you kind of get used to the sound, and the people, and the environment, but I feel like the whole show I never really felt uncomfortable, that was the only real difference.

At this point we played enough shows back that I'm kind of back to where I don't think about it anymore, just kind of used to it.

We've played a few shows on the road with Catamaran, maybe a couple, one or two with Bleach Kings on the road.

So getting used to that as well.

I think it's relatively clear which band it would go through just because one's a much more high energy band, it's like trying to start up a mosh pit is one sound.

and then the other one is more, I don't know, being vulnerable, and delicate, and arrangements, and more of vibe kind of thing.

The hard part is the songs that I start writing that I like but don't fit either project, so they just go on the shelf, and I listen to them every once in a while, once or twice a year, I'm like, man, that's a good song, but I have no outlet for it.

So they just sit.

(uptempo guitar music) I'm sorry.

(drumsticks clacking) (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ You're stuck, away on your own ♪ ♪ Open up yourself on the phone ♪ ♪ Where in the world, oh, where'd you go ♪ (uptempo rock music) ♪ Waiting up by the door ♪ Waking up on the floor (uptempo rock music) ♪ Oh, where'd you go ♪ Hey ♪ Where did you go ♪ Hey (uptempo rock music) ♪ Where did you go ♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ Broken chairs in your home ♪ Fakers take all of your hope ♪ Leave them alone ♪ Leave them alone, oh, oh, oh (uptempo rock music) ♪ Way up north, oh ♪ Way up there on your own ♪ Hey (uptempo rock music) ♪ Where did you go ♪ Hey ♪ Where did you go (uptempo rock music) (uptempo rock music) ♪ Hey ♪ Hey ♪ Hey (uptempo rock music) (drumsticks clanking) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)