After four albums with Reprise, veteran rock outfit Guster has signed with Aware/Columbia. The group hopes to complete its as-yet-untitled label debut in February.
Lead singer Ryan Miller says Guster plans to come away with “17 or 18" songs recorded, pared down from around 25 possiblities. Fatherhood has been a key factor in the writing.
“Three of us all had our first kids within four months of each other," Miller tells Billboard.com. “We're adjusting to this new era of fatherhood. The band met each other in 1991, and it's 2008. So, it's sort of an interesting place to still be excited about making music together."
These new responsibilities, as well as geographic challenges, led the band to write in a new way. Whereas Miller describes the process before as “meeting every day for a couple months," the new material was written in one- to two-week batches over the course of several months.
Lead singer Ryan Miller says Guster plans to come away with “17 or 18" songs recorded, pared down from around 25 possiblities. Fatherhood has been a key factor in the writing.
“Three of us all had our first kids within four months of each other," Miller tells Billboard.com. “We're adjusting to this new era of fatherhood. The band met each other in 1991, and it's 2008. So, it's sort of an interesting place to still be excited about making music together."
These new responsibilities, as well as geographic challenges, led the band to write in a new way. Whereas Miller describes the process before as “meeting every day for a couple months," the new material was written in one- to two-week batches over the course of several months.
