ATP! Interview: Adventures

It's no secret that we LOVE Adventures. The Pittsburgh, PA five-piece released earlier this year possibly one of the best EPs of 2012, fusing their unique blend of indie/rock together with singer/guitarist Reba Meyers' distinctive vocals.

Whilst on their recent fall tour, Alter The Press sat down with the band to discuss the origin Adventures, signing to No Sleep Records, how they divide their time between various side-projects and more.



Alter The Press: How did Adventures originally come together?
Jami Morgan (drums): We started through all of us being in our other band [Code Orange Kids]. Kimi [keys] has always done all the art and everything from us and has been our best friend pretty much forever. All of us were into this other music which we all liked a lot and we just started doing it when we weren't doing Code Orange Kids stuff. That's pretty much it.

ATP: Besides three of you being in Code Orange Kids, how do you all find the time do Adventures as well as your other side-projects?
Reba Meyes (vocals/guitars): We don't do much else.

Jami: We all live at home, we all work part-time jobs but besides that, I don't know, we just practice. It's gotten a little harder since Kimi moved to Baltimore, but we just practice. Write songs, have fun. It's what we normally do.

Reba: It keeps us going, we just try to fill our time up with it.

ATP: Code Orange Kids have recently come back from Europe and have their new album coming out soon. With that said, describe a typical year for you guys. How you divide your time between each band, touring, studio time etc.
Jami: Well with this year, we recorded the Adventures EP over a year ago, so we've had it for like forever. We timed it out with that and said we will after write the new Code Orange Kids record and hopefully have some downtime that we could do tours off this record because it will be out in time.


We kind of planned it like that for this year too, because we have already written the new Adventures full-length record and recorded demos for it, so when that comes out, hopefully Code Orange Kids will take a little break.

ATP: What is the current update with Lillith? (Kimi, Reba and Joe's acoustic/folk side-project)
Joe Goldman (bass): We did have a 7" which came out a couple months ago, which came out through a label in New Hampshire called Get Better Records. I think our plan is to try to do a new record in...

Reba: Spring or Summer. It's tough as we just came up with Adventures, we have the Code Orange Kids thing going on and Kimi lives in Baltimore. As soon as we get a break, we will do it. It's just balancing everything out. We always write songs and do all that stuff. The time will come.

ATP: Besides those three bands, do you guys have any other side-projects?
Reba: There's been little things..

Jami: They have a band called Girl Dungeon and we have a band that we are starting up called Wise Up. Just these different genres of stuff.

Reba: To keep busy.

Jami: We have friends who are in other bands who are all great but have stuff to do, so we all just play together because we know how to write songs with each other really easily.  I don't know, it's really easy. We're all best friends and hang out every day. One day we will practice, the other we will hang out.

ATP: How did Adventures end up signing with No Sleep Records?
Jami: We wanted to send it around and see if anyone we really like would want to put it out. I sent it to No Sleep. They're kind of a big a label and I didn't think he [Chris Hansen, owner] would release it, but we knew him through Code Orange Kids so I sent it to him and he liked it a lot. It was that easy. We didn't send it to anyone else. It was just him and he said yes. It worked out really well.

ATP: How would you describe Adventures and was there a particular sound or influence you were really trying to capture with this EP?
Jamie: Personally I would say a lot of 90s emo and alternative rock stuff but putting our different elements to it like Reba's voice and adding Dom [Landolina, guitar] to the mix.

Reba: When we started off it was a general idea for the sound; something lighter. Dom originally was in a part of it for the first week and we didn't really know what he was into besides a lot of the 90s emo stuff that we were, so it just kind of turned into that.


ATP: You mentioned earlier you have already started demoing the new LP?
Reba: We've demoed nine of the songs but might change a couple of things. The vocals aren't totally done, but the general idea is there. We put a lot of time into it. We have a practice space in Pittsburgh and pretty much went there for like a week or two and hashed it out.

Jami: We wrote some songs, went on tour with Code Orange Kids, came back and really hammered it out in the last few weeks.

Reba: We'll hopefully be done with it before Code Orange Kids go on tour, record it in the Winter and hopefully it will come out in the Spring.

ATP: Will it be released through No Sleep?