Julian Casblancas+The Voidz announce the release of their third album Like All Before You out digitally on September 20th and physically on vinyl October 18th. This album was meticulously crafted at the band’s home studio in Venice, CA and the renowned Vox Studios in Los Angeles. The band collaborated with producers Ivan Wayman (Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, The War on Drugs), Justin Raisen (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor), and SAD PONY (Lil Yachty, Drake) on several tracks.
The band has also announced shows in Los Angeles and New York City.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday, July 12 at 10AM local time for each HERE
Tell us more about this record. What’s the main message and most important song?
We started recording this album in Los Angeles in the fall of 2019. We rented a studio and spent a month writing and recording live takes. Some of the songs took shape there, but little of what we recorded is on the album. We re-tracked most of the songs at Amir’s home studio in Culver City. His studio has basically served as Voidz HQ for the last 6 or 7 years. We write and record there. We rehearse there. We play poker and play soccer and listen to records there. Bits and pieces of the original demos are stitched into some of the songs as well. To me, there’s no song that’s the most important. And as a band, we’ve never really discussed messages.
How did you come up with the definition of prison jazz?
In 2014/2015, we were doing some interviews and promo for Tyranny (our first album) and journalists were curious about our sound and our influences. I’m not sure that even we knew (or know) how to categorize the genre of music we make. But we kept getting asked and during an interview Jake responded with Prison Jazz. Everyone laughed, but it had an interesting and suitable ring to it so we started running with that.
How has the band, sound and whole attitude evolved from your debut in 2013?
Our attitude hasn’t really changed. We’re six friends who love to make music together. I hear just as many wild flavors in what we’re making today as the music we made 11 years ago. I’m sure our chemistry is a bit more fine-tuned and that we understand each other’s sensibilities more and that that influences what we do, but I can’t explain how. To me, it just sounds like us. Maybe ‘cause I’m in the bubble. And because I’m in the bubble it’s kind of difficult to objectively critique the music. I suppose we’re looking to be thrilled so we avoid anything that feels predictable, formulaic or safe (from a musical standpoint).
