Joe Pug Website | Facebook | Instagram Joe Pug’s new record “The
Flood In Color” is nearly four years in the making. But that betrays
the fact that the making of the album was one of the most natural and
rewarding processes of his career. Produced by Kenneth Pattengale of
the Milk Carton Kids and engineered by Matt Ross-Spang the album
started with the goal of focusing on the simplicity of musicians
playing together, live, in the same room. Recently relocating back to
his childhood home in Prince Georges County, Maryland after many years
spent in Chicago and Austin, Pug wanted take a new approach. The
partnership with Pattengale proved to be an irresistible opportunity
to do just that.“The past couple of albums haven’t always been the
most enjoyable to record. The process can really bring on all sorts of
pressures about what you should be doing and how you should be doing
it, both internally and externally. Lots of ‘Songs need to be 3 and
half minutes long’ and ‘You need something that will work on AAA
radio’. And the end result is this strange gravity that just weighs
you down.” Pattengale, a fan of Pug’s music since the days so of
his 2010 EP “Nation of Heat”, was eager to try a back-to-basics
approach.
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