![]() ![]() Oh yes, and not only us! The Roasting House guys were really happy with the response too. ![]() Obviously you could tell that you had great songs and a great production, but did the way the debut album was welcomed surprise any of you guys? One of my biggest goals with our music is to create those emotions, be it good or bad but I truly hope them to be positive!įabulous answer Erkka. The worst scores in my opinion are those 5-7 which are like "This is err.nice." That way the album doesn't move the listener to any direction, and the music becomes muzak. With that kind of score you have definitely caused an emotional reaction, which is a good thing. One thing that we must remember is that 1 or 2 points out of 10 is not necessarily a bad score. We just got 4/5 in the 2nd biggest rock magazine in Finland and we are really happy about that. There are exceptions to this of course, such as Harem Scarem. Sometimes it just seems that an album that gets all 10/10´s from the "genre" media will end up getting 1´s and 2´s in the big rock mags. It´s great to get good reviews from the AOR/Melodic Rock media, but we're shooting for the mainstream media as well. Also, now he also knew how we play in the studio so it was much easier.ĭuring the production we noticed that the album was gonna be a bit different from the 1st one, and we also knew that it was gonna get varied responses from the critics. We worked together more closely on song tempos, feelings and such, and he really respects our opinions. It was actually easier to do the actual recordings this time, since we know Theo better now and vice versa. And as we hit the studio, Theo (Anders Theander, our producer) came up with the finishing touches that were really cool too. I guess that there was some, but we believed in the new songs right from the beginning. Ok, Erkka - let's go! Did the band feel any sort of pressure to perform after the great critical success of the debut album? Urban Tale's Erkka talks about the challenges of being a new band in this musical era and of the challenges facing them while recording album #2. ![]()
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