Review Fix chats with Threesound’s Bobby Crim, who discusses the band’s new album, “Different Spaces” and goals for the future.
About Threesound:
Threesound, a Virginia-based quartet, seamlessly merges various genres of music to create something fresh. Through eclectic and lyrical songwriting, soulful grooves and soaring guitars, they deliver an organically original sound filled with fat backbeats and smooth sensibilities. Catchy songs that encompass rock, jazz, funk, pop, fusion and dance, Threesound brings the groove.
In addition to being interviewed on Dead.net and topping the ReverbNation Rock chart in Winchester, Virginia for over a year, music festival magazine Appalachian Jamwich describes Threesound with “Grooves that make you wanna dance, smooth instrumentals and Sublime like vocals.”
Review Fix: How did you guys get together?
Bobby Crim: There’s four of us in Threesound. Before the name of the group came along in high school, It all began in middle school with Andrew Renner, Bobby Crim and Alex Swafford. We all started playing together when we all knew very little about instrument, the in 6th grade. John Hayes jumped on in 2011 and we started stepping out and playing the mid-Atlantic. Bassist personnel shift in April of this year to Marshall Wacker.
Review Fix: What is your creative process like?
Crim: The rough skeleton of a the music in a song may come from any of the four of us, or if on more seldom occasion we all are practicing and something new comes of it. The lyric side of the song is more intimate, Bobby or John brings them over top the instrumentation, if they weren’t already conceived hand in hand.
Review Fix: What else do you think makes that song special?
Crim: It’s a therapy session for a John through lyric and song! The verses present him with an angst in his voice, with a resonance of stressful anxiety. The pre-chorus and hook of the track is supplemented like a therapist who answers the verses illogical worries with calm, supportive messages enforced with backup harmonies. Your mind powers your body and soul.
Review Fix: Is there a story behind “The Way the Rain Came”?
Crim: “The Way the Rain Came†caught on quick to our live audience. Even first time listeners could be seen mouthing the words from our view on stage. It also has been a highlight for Threesound personally, with a strong multi-vocal performance with John taking lead.
Review Fix: What acts inspire you guys the most?
Crim: Between the four of us, we’re all across the board. Snarky Puppy, John Mayer, Tupac, Brahms?
Review Fix: What’s your favorite song- that you’re scared to tell people you love? Why?
Crim: I Want You Back – N*SYNC , and frankly, we’ve no shame in shouting it out loud to the world. Maybe one day we’ll tease it at a show.
Review Fix: What makes you guys special?
Crim: Diversification. Taking our second album ‘Different Spaces’ to…different spaces. New directions musically, and of course a consistent touring routine, around 50-100 a year. New friends, new connections, spread our fresh grooves to our growing soundbound nation.
Review Fix: What else do you think you guys have to do to get where you want to be?
Crim: Keep doing what we’re doing, along with a few new nifty strategies. Showing up is 80% of the game, and the other bit is working smarter and writing continually better music. It takes lots of TLC.
Review Fix: What’s next?
Crim: Shows. New album. And Thanksgiving. Call your parents and family, tell them you love them.
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