"These Are Our Songs" - The Funeral Portrait
Cris Cohen: The last time we talked, you made a point about spending ten years really getting to know yourselves as a band, and how you can hear that growth in the music of “Suffocate City.” How did those ten years of growth affect you as a live band?
Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait: I think that’s the only way that we’re here. For so long, we didn’t have the songs to get us here. Then finally, you get the songs.
I think bands often focus on one thing and not the other. They’ll say, “I wrote the best songs ever.” Then you see them live and it’s the most boring show you’ve ever seen. Or they just worry about the live show, and they don’t have the songs.
Since we had that break to really work on this record, we were finally able to focus on the songs. And then going on tour last year and the year before, really playing these songs and working them out… even with a new member. You will never guess that he just joined the band. Because as a band, we know these songs.
These are our songs. This is what we are. This is Funeral Portrait.
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