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The Best of Everything
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Van Damsel made an album that you’ll probably never hear; but it tells the story of a band’s growth and development, the rough draft of their now well-defined sound. When the album was completed in 2013, the band’s style had evolved greatly from when they first started recording. Says singer Sebastien Ste Marie, “Our new album feels like a more accurate representation of our true sound, songwriting and overall message.” Sebastien refers to those recording sessions as wholly educational; “Songwriting and the process of recording in a studio is a skill set that is learned through experience.” Don’t expect to hear these songs in a reincarnated form either, “We have moved on in a big way, spending the last two years writing and recording a new self-titled album. We just finished it and will be releasing it early next year.”
Originally formed in 2010, the members that are currently circulating on YouTube. of the indie-pop group all originate from The video for their single Best of Everything Kamloops. In fact, Richard Bregoliss, Matthew can also be found on their website and is a “Renny” Rennehan, Matthew Barron and hypnotic, trippy kaleidoscope of images. The Sebastien Ste Marie are all graduates from band loves to collaborate with different filmNorKam, but they didn’t actually meet in high makers on these projects: “The development school. It was death metal that brought them process has always involved us to an extent, together. All but Sebastien were in the metal though often it’s the videographers whose band Martagan. “Renny and Matthew were vision is realized. A music video is often as originally guitar players with a strong founda- much the filmmaker’s as it is the musician’s.” tion in the metal genre. It was only natural that As for songwriting, it is always a group they start a metal band. [Meanwhile] Richard, effort with their producer Ryan Worsley. Matt and I would experiment with indie rock. Sebastien elaborates, “Generally the instruWhen the metal band broke up, Renny joined mental parts and arrangements of our songs the three of us in our indie project and it pro- start with our guitar player, Richard. He is the gressively got more serious from there.” spark. Then, we break things down and experIn an effort to expand their fan base, Van iment with the initial parts of a song as a band. - continued on page 2 Damsel has since made four music videos
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