Interview: Sunny Day Real Estate
By John Wenzel | September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Sunny Day Real Estate’s re-reunion includes reissues of the band’s first two seminal albums on Sub Pop (“Diary” and “LP2″) and a 21-date North American tour that stops by the Ogden Theatre on Monday.
Jay-Z. The Pixies. Dinosaur Jr. Pavement. And now Sunny Day Real Estate. The number of musical artists reuniting or otherwise coming out of self-imposed retirement has led to a sort of reunion fatigue. Are they just doing it for the cash? Or can we believe them when they say it’s all for the love of music?
“It was Nate (Mendel) who got in touch with everybody and made it happen, so we get to blame him,” said Dan Hoerner, guitarist and founding member of Sunny Day Real Estate. “It’s his fault.”
Of course, that’s a good thing for fans of Sunny Day Real Estate. The emo-rock band was one of the first Seattle acts to turn away from grunge when the band formed in 1992. They mined a more earnest vein, influencing artists like Fall Out Boy and countless others with their thorny guitars and singer Jeremy Enigk’s wailing, melodic vocals.
“My initial response to the reunion was to be totally blown away and incredibly excited,” Hoerner said. “I’m that guy in the band who will always do the band as long as somebody wants to do it, so it was a completely unexpected pleasure to hear from Nate and have him sort of put all this together.”
The reunion includes reissues of Sunny Day’s first two seminal albums on Sub Pop (“Diary” and “LP2″) and a 21-date North American tour that stops by the Ogden Theatre tonight (Aug. 21).
Eyes may roll when you consider that it’s the second — that’s right, second — of Sunny Day’s reunions, following a 1997 recording session and subsequent tours and albums before disbanding again in 2001. But when the results are discs such as 1998′s “How It Feels to Be Something On” — a prog-flavored opus that found the band confident, honed and infectious as ever — that’s not such a bad thing.
“There’s that pressure there of wanting to be good and get everything people want out of it, but at the same time we’re killing it and it’s sounding really good in (rehearsal),” Hoerner said.
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