Album by album
COMETS ON FIRE
AVATAR
SUB POP, 2006
With the cracks already showing, the band dig deep for a masterful treatise of gnarled cosmic wisdom
Because Comets had got to a place where we’d been rehearsing Avatar for a year, the tracking was fairly embittered and difficult – it wasn’t that spontaneous, explosive process any more. But I think the album came out having a deeper emotional complexity because of that stuff. It was something of a triumph, but a destroyer for us also. We were coming to a place where it was gonna be hard for the band to continue if we couldn’t find a more unified place for ourselves, and that album ended up containing all those mixed emotions.