CAVE IN’S FAREWELL TO LATE VOCALIST
Posthumous recordings on sixth album.
Cave In release The Final Transmission on June 7 via Hydra Head. It’s their first album in eight years, and their last to feature bassist and singer Caleb Scofield, who died last year in a car accident.
The nine-track was created from demos the band had been working on before Caleb’s death. They agreed that every song on the album needed to feature him: the opening title track was created from a voice memo he sent the rest of the band, and he plays bass on six tracks and guitar on the remaining two.
“For us, it was very clear how to move forward with those demo recordings,” explains vocalist and guitarist Stephen Brodsky. “We would use them to support and help the Scofield family. That gave us the green light to move forward, to finish it, to grieve together, to basically bring some sense of closure to our final musical moments with Caleb.
“Shake My Blood was the only song lyrically that we wrote after Caleb passed away, and that’s about the feeling when grief makes you paralysed,” Brodsky continues. “You’re not sure who you are, or what you’re supposed to be doing. It’s about motivating yourself to just get up and move.”
Beyond the album’s release, Brodsky says he doesn’t know what the future holds.
“We’ve plans for the rest of the year,” he says, “but that’s as far as we’ve gotten with it. I think all of us are feeling that we want to decompress from this situation a bit. People have asked if we plan on making anything in the future, but it’s way too early to tell.”
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