Our 2002 Debut CD, Released on Altered Music and distributed through Metropolis Records, & MODified Music (SLC)

In Spite of It All

Inspired by the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten, this is an instrumental layered by all kinds of crazy things that are not necessarily synths.  Lot's of vocal sounds sampled into an old Ensoniq Sampler, looped and tweaked.  And yes we blatantly ripped a sample from a certain movie.  To date...we haven't been sued.  =)

Architecture

Can you tell we listened to a alot of early mesh when this was recorded?  We have no idea what this song is about...we hope you'll let us know.

The Disenchanted

This is deep.  We have about 10 different versions of this track.  Fun to play live....we also played with Depeche Mode's Black Celebration themes during live performances.

Deep

Dissention

This song grew on me and became one of my favorites to perform live.  Very cathartic.  My favorite part is the ambient sample of Corey's furnace that plays through most of the track.  

Forsaken

The first song we wrote together as mend.  This is version #234.  We have since added 3 more revisions (?)

Jaded

This became a crowd favorite at live performances.  It was dark and often performed live using a church organ patch and some filtered pads.  Chet would kill the vocal live (the recorded version doesn't do him justice) and the giant red X from the laser lights and smoke filled stage added to the drama.  

Contained

This was written prior to mend.  It was very electronic and clubby.  It was titled "Shiny Metal" as a joke.  I don't recall the joke...but the idea of being attracted to something superficial & dangerous took on some lyrical ideas.  "like a moth to a flame".  Summed up my dating experiences of my early 20's.  Mend gave it 360 degree change.  Guitar tracks were performed by Mat Fisher (57 Heavy / Fluffer N' Hummer).  The album title was spawned from the lyrics. 

Shiny Metal

We did a completely revised version of this a few years ago for live performance.  The synth work in it is unbelievable (I can say that because Corey did the bulk of it)...we should record the new version.   Written in the midst of strange times and friendship politics.  We can look back on this and chuckle now.

Here We Are

A song Corey wrote prior to mend.  We spent hours working on this.  Probably because we were recording/production noobs at the time.  Dirgey and dark was the intent. Linda H. on the backing vocals.

One With None

Probably the third track we wrote.  We chopped and time stretched live drum samples back when sample manipulation software was fairly infantile.  Hours of work then would take about 2 minutes now.  This track saw radio and club play in Salt Lake City.  We were invited to play several shows there, including a showcase for some labels at the Hard Rock Cafe.  At one point one third of us lived in SLC.

Sub-Killer

The second mend track ever written.  The bass line played live off of the Juno 105 was the crux of the track.  During live performances during the breakdowns we would throw in strange bits such as the piano line from NIN's closer.

Love Is Blind

Final track of the CD.  Corey wrote and produced the majority of this one.  We always liked the contradiction of happy and hopeful lyrics set to something sparse and melancholy. 

Change

Darkwave, Indie, Art Rock, Electronic band from Boise, Idaho. We've been playing around the Pacific NW off and on since Y2K.

We grew up listening to bands like Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Peter Murphy and Nitzer Ebb. 

We morph elements of electronic, alternative (post-punk), and industrial music into our own thing. Dark, atmospheric and melodic music that reminds of our youth.