VOIDS

Voids, stylized VOIDS, is the sixth studio album by Seattle indie rock band Minus The Bear, released March 3rd, 2017. It is the first album to feature Kiefer Matthias on drums after the departure of Erin Tate in early 2015.

Speaking with Noisey, guitarist Dave Knudson and singer Jake Snider commented on how the album’s creation was different from previous records:

Dave Knudson: It was totally different because this was the first time we’ve ever written with a new drummer which was kind of reinvigorating I think for everybody, especially it was for me. We had maybe six or seven songs written (with original drummer Erin Tate) and then threw those all away and started writing again and that’s where this whole thing really started gaining momentum.

Jake Snider: We were on kind of—it wasn’t a hiatus because we were working all the time and playing shows—but this whole record got a wrench thrown in it by the kind of a restart of the writing process once we got our new drummer Kiefer in the mix. It’s been a long time since our last record came out and a lot of that has to do with this very big structural change in the band’s form. It took a lot of months to figure out what we were going to do.

Knudson: We basically fired everybody: Not just writing process-wise but manager, business manager… almost every possible person who was working for us except for our booking agent is now different so there was a definite shift in how the band had operated and it operating now.