And that is a powerful and inspiring feeling to sort of do what we want to do with our fans are encouraging that rather than having a record label looking over your shoulder. This record was funded by our fans, so we were given carte blanche to take inspiration. I was also listening to Deadmau5, Burial, Bat for Lashes and stuff like that, just different artists who are considerably further outside our traditional realm of inspiration, but purposely so.
But on this one, I really went back to my Joy Division records, my New Order records, Depeche Mode. Matt Scannell: I've always drawn from singer-songwriters Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles - the songwriters who have fundamental songwriting nailed.
Music Times: The last record Vertical Horizon made was in 2009, what inspired Echoes From The Underground this time around? Music Times talked to Scannell about how Vertical Horizon has managed to stay relevant in an industry that has completely changed, for the most part, since the band began, what it was like working with Rush's Neil Peart on two tracks, and why he considers this album the band's best work to date. Having been together now since 1991, with lineup changes along the way, frontman Matt Scannell says he sees a future for the band, whose fan base is still going strong. Evidenced in songs such "Lovestruck" and "Frost," the album is much more sonically diverse and more time is given to tracks, which more often than not pass the five-minute mark. The album is a departure from the guitar-heavy rock tracks that drove past efforts and introduces keyboards to the forefront. As they said on the funding site, this album was made for the fans and for the band. After listening to the album, it's clear that they didn't enter the process digging for radio gold. Avoiding the influence of a major label, the band funded its sixth studio release on PledgeMusic. Now the band is back with its latest effort Echoes From the Underground. Six years later, they recorded Burning the Days, which produced two radio singles, "Save Me From Myself" and "The Lucky One." Their breakout album Everything You Want, especially the title track, played on repeat for most of 2000, but the band's sophomore effort did not fare as well - RCA went through a restructuring, and the album got lost in the mix. The band is often tossed into forgotten piles of '90s nostalgia. It's been a while since Vertical Horizon was a household name.
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