Kelley Deal and Mike Montgomery of the band R.RING talk about songwriting, ghosts, salamanders and the weather...a LOT.
The music of R.RING is sparse, abrasive, chaotic and lulling... often within the same song.
Kelley also plays with The Breeders in Dayton, OH. Mike owns and operates Candyland Recording Studio in Dayton, KY.
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Yikes. I fell into a space/time fracture whilst flipping the album from side 1 to side 2. On this episode we discuss Track 7 - Salt - from our album Ignite the Rest.
On this episode we discuss 2 songs. Track 5 - Unwinds - and track 6 - Flies. I try to go deep and ponder the fragile tension that holds a society...ooops!...I mean a universe together while Mike attempts to spread fake news about spider farming. (Wait...Is that a thing?)
Mike and I chat about track 2 - Loud Underneath - as our journey takes us through water dogs and salamanders down to Austin where we meet up with the mythic men from the band Protomartyr.
Mike and I continue boating through memories, swans and a paddleboarder named Bruce as we discuss the writing and recording of 'Cutter' - the first track on our new album.