READY TO FLY
Post-hardcore band A Lot Like Birds gears for tour, album release
ALot Like Birds next tour begins on Tuesday, April 25.
And Cory Lockwood is busy with an intense amount of preparation.
Not only does the member of the band have a tour to get ready for, but the posthardcore band is also gearing up for the release of its next album, “Divisi.”
“There’s so much anticipation,” he says during a recent phone interview. “Once the first couple shows are over, we’ll get in a groove and it will all be fine. It’s the buildup that makes everything exciting.”
Lockwood is the band’s singer. The other members are Michael Franzino, Ben Wiacek, Joseph Arrington and Matt Coate.
The quintet began working on “Divisi” about a year ago.
And Lockwood says the process was one of the longest the band has been through.
“We were writing for four months before we started recording,” he says. “It was intense, but it’s also the way we wanted to do it. We wanted to take more time with the music.”
Lockwood says the band didn’t give any thought about the title of the album, “Divisi,” being used as an adjective or a noun.
(Divisi is a musical direction indicating that a section of players should be divided into two or more groups, each playing a different part or a passage of music.)
“We talked about the division of two separate paths,” he says. “Then we began to explore mortality and life. And that became the impetus behind the entire album.”
Forming in 2009, A Lot Like Birds is a band that continually reinvents itself.
Lockwood says none of the band’s albums sound the same.
“The best part about what we are doing is seeing the response to the music,” he says. “Once we set it out to the world, it is no longer our song. It takes on an entirely different form, and it’s amazing to see what people get from it.”
As far as writing goes, Lockwood is responsible for the lyrics and says it’s a personal and secluded process.
“I still don’t know how I do it,” he says. “But the songs are given to the band, and this time around, the guys had more input on the songs. It turned out to be a great process for all of us.”