American Songwriter - Air Traffic Controller Shares How Pandemic Pushed Album Back
Boston-based indie folk-pop band Air Traffic Controller were so close to wrapping up their latest album when the pandemic forced them to abandon their studio sessions – but frontman/songwriter Dave Munro found a creative way to complete one track, “Sometimes,” which is being released as a single on August 25.
“This song was definitely the closest [to being finished],” Munro says of the track, calling from his Boston-area home, “so I called one of my bandmates over. We did a distanced recording: he was in my driveway in his car with a laptop, and I created a vocal booth in the garage, and we got this vocal take done.”
The end result juxtaposes jaunty pop melodies with Munro’s heartfelt vocals describing the fallout from a disintegrated relationship, and it definitely doesn’t sound like it was finished in a garage. Happy as he is with how it turned out, Munro sighs and adds, “I have a feeling the rest of the record might be finished by making up ways like this to get it done.” …