Review Fix Exclusive: Altered By Mom’s Devon Lougheed Talks ‘Hear That Sound’ And More

Review Fix chats with Altered By Mom’s Devon Lougheed who discusses the band’s origin and new track, “Hear That Sound.”

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Devon Lougheed: Altered By Mom started as an excuse for producer/songwriter Devon Lougheed to play with some of his favourite musicians from all across Canada, but really took shape with the permanent addition of Gina Kennedy (bass/vocals) and Jamie Williamson (drums). We met Jamie through the bartering group Bunz Trading Zone… so I guess there’s a freewheeling hippie element in our very DNA.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Lougheed: Generally one of the band’s songwriters brings a skeleton of an idea to the table, and those are fleshed-out through rehearsals and live performances. We also do a lot of recording, demoing, and sound design, creating lots of options fairly uncritically, then sharpening and honing that until it feels just right. 

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Lougheed: We’re inspired by a cacophony of elements… Terry Crews, Andy Kaufman, Jennie Trout, the tension between art and capitalism, Fugazi, Beavis and Butthead, Yolandi Visser. We especially love art and music that is high quality but not so serious, even comedic.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Lougheed: We sound like the Barenaked Ladies on a bender through a fuzz pedal, or like Ween scoring a romantic comedy. We sound like the best bits of 90s influence with a contemporary sound and timeless songwriting… we hope.

Review Fix: How was “Hear That Sound” written?

Lougheed: ‘Hear That Sound” was written to try and divine answers from a sea of questions in the aftermath of the breakup of a long-term relationship. It’s for anyone who has felt lonely in the midst of a crowd.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Lougheed: Our live shows follow the mantra of “organized chaos”, and are designed to be an entertainment event from start to finish. In the studio, we focus much more on sounds and songwriting, which I guess makes sense. Our goal in the studio is to create songs that can be the soundtrack to important and formative moments in people’s lives, just as there are songs that have been so perfectly matched to the important and formative moments in ours.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2019?

Lougheed: We’d like to get more involved in videos and visual media, and collaborate with many more artists and creators.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Lougheed: We are releasing our new album, TRAPPED IN AN MP3, and hope to continue to create interesting live shows and happenings while getting our songs stuck in your head. Also, we’d like to give you a big hug or fist-bump (up to you).

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Lougheed: We’d like to create a mutual feedback kindness loop with other artists — if you’d like us to check out your song, send us some thoughts about “Hear That Sound” and a link to your song to [email protected] and we’ll tell you what we dig about it!
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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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