Artist: Cardinal Black
Album: January Came Close (Jump In Records)
Debut albums can sometimes be a shot in the dark. But in Cardinal Black’s case, a comprehensive campaign on social media, including a Kickstarter fundraiser to finance the recording, means that January Came Close has become one of this season’s most highly anticipated releases. We check in with guitarist Chris Buck to hear how the album came together.
Which studios did you use for the recording?
“The last track on the album is taken from a live session at Abbey Road so it was recorded entirely live in one take. And at the other end of the scale is a place that was a carpet warehouse until very recently, a studio called Snake Mountain in South Wales,, which was recorded live at Rockfield. As good as Snake Mountain Studio is, they don’t have the capacity to record the entirety of the band. It’s kind of your drums and bass together and then layer it up from there. is very much a live vibe so we thought that, of all the tracks, it would be great just to go in and do it entirely live. We did a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording of the album for the most part. And we had a lot of Kickstarters come down to the studio and actually watch that process live, which I think aided the recording.”
