This is New Wisco Weekend, I'm Lisa Hale.
Eric Jellin from mascot theory visited Civic Media's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba recently
to talk about the launch party for their new album.
We have some of that interview, but let's start things off with the music.
My brain is drowning, loud and free, past that salty ocean to me across the family dinner
table.
Separate.
The truth from fable, my brain is drowning, loud and free, past that salty ocean to me across
the family dinner table.
Separate.
The truth from fable, I'm barely hanging on, though I've still got a grip, did my
take cold nights, but I'll get over this, I'm barely hanging on, though I've still
got a grip, did my take cold nights, but I'll get over this, past that salty ocean to me
across the family dinner table.
Separate.
The truth from fable, my brain is drowning, loud and free, past that salty ocean to me across
the family dinner table.
Separate.
We got a shout out for our guest, Eric Jellin.
Eric from Terry Barr, so we just heard get a grip, got a grip, you have a little wrap in there kind of you little bending some genres here, I love when people do that.
Yeah, we just, you know, we're doing this.
We're decided to do this album completely on our own with no constraints.
We'll just do whatever we felt like fit the mood and a friend of mine, Tyler Durden, the rapper on there had actually heard a demo of that song probably a year before.
And he had actually really loved the demo and then he wrote a whole verse for it and then sent it to me and I totally forgot about it.
And a year later we'd pop it down on the album and I was sharing with him kind of where we are at with the song.
He's like, I wrote a verse for that.
I'm like, oh, no, I forgot about that.
I'm like, well, I don't know.
Like I said, we got these things timed down.
So anything that goes in, something else is coming out.
But, you know, if you want to send it to me, we'll see.
And we started working on it and it's like, oh, this is amazing.
This is going to fit perfectly with the theme of the album and everything and dealing with grief and loss and then kind of the cosmic picture after what happens next.
So it just fit perfect.
So yeah.
I, it's interesting.
Eric Jellin is my guest from the mascot theory.
We just heard his song, got a grip.
The new album drops October 3rd.
Okay. So where can people find that Spotify, the usual outlets?
All the streamers.
We'll have it on our, on our website, the mascot theory.com.
They'll be a link to our store, our bandcamp store.
So you can order it right from there.
We'll send you a CD, your vinyl versions and digital streaming, all that stuff.
Yeah.
And when can people see you?
It's October 5th.
You have a release party at the Atwood Music Hall here in Madison.
And you mentioned one in Appleton as well.
October 3rd.
The actual release day.
We're going to be at Gibson Music Hall in Appleton.
So it's going to be a blast and they're very different kind of shows that we would typically do.
We're kind of a rock folk rock band.
With this album, we really felt like we wanted it to be the focus of everything that we're performing.
So it's actually a very intimate kind of sit down.
We're going to do an interview.
Terry Barr is actually going to be at the Madison woman.
We're going to do an interview on stage.
We'll talk about the album and the process a little bit.
And then we've got our friends into the music podcast up in Appleton.
We'll do the same thing.
On your website, you have a passage.
It says, where you describe this album, peering, jittery energy with a little self interrogation.
Can you explain that?
Yeah, I think it's, especially with this theme.
I mean, when you're trying to tie in all the songs or all the songs are all in the same ideas, you really have to look into.
Okay, what, what was I feeling during all of this one might specifically when my dad was passing away.
How was that really affecting me at the time?
How do I reflect on that now?
Yeah.
So you really got to dig deep on that.
What, what is that?
And then kind of the side B of the album is really more of the, okay, after, after death, what happens now?
How do we grieve from that lens now when it's, it's the healing part, right?
So it's like, what does that look from a cosmic standpoint?
Where, where do we go after, after we pass away?
All those kind of big, big, big ideas is kind of the second half of the album.
And that's kind of what we were shooting for on this one.
And here's the Eric Jellin and Mask got through.
But I was not alone in grieving.
It's clear.
So clear.
Up with the love of you.
If you're loving the music, here in New Wisco, the mascot theory has a launch party planned for their new album
at the Gibson Music Hall in Appleton on October 3rd.
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