After the show I ran up to one of their singers, this clean-cut guy named Jim Adkins. “Holy shit, man, great set! Can we trade tapes or something?” We talked for a bit, and he handed me a copy of their new album that hadn’t been released yet called Static Prevails. They had also just signed to a major label, Capitol Records, and this was their debut. That cassette was all we played in the blink van for the rest of the tour. We couldn’t get enough of it. The guitars sounded lush but sharp, and everything felt huge. This is what we wanted our major-label debut to sound like, so we booked time at
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