Oct. 21, 2009 - Issue #731: Propagandhi
Triple Exposure
Fun to poke fun Triple Exposure releases its debut EP
While vocalist and drummer Mike Gourley might be fond of making jokes about the audience being the third member—jokes that even he will readily admit are lame—the name is actually a take off on an album released as a collaboration by two of Triple Exposure's biggest influences, Bethesda, MD's Trans Am and San Francisco, CA's the Fucking Champs.
"One of our influences is this band Trans Am and the Fucking Champs and they had this collaboration where they called it Double Exposure and we just kind of took it one step further," says Gourley. "We did have three members at one time but that was short lived and the name just stuck. We've thought about getting a third memeber but we've just done it as a two-piece and it seems to have worked."
Indeed it has worked but the duo—rounded out by Skye Boyes on guitar—took a long time between forming the band and writing the songs to put out this disc, partly because the members were busy with their jobs and partly because they had no idea what they were doing. Entering a friend's brand new studio just to test it out, Triple Exposure liked the results so much that it was decided what was recorded should be released, but first the ins and outs of DIY record-making had to be navigated.
"It's been a really slow process getting those tracks into an album format in terms of learning about putting a disc together and getting a disc printed," explains Boyes. "We did all the design ourselves even though we didn't plan on doing it that way. As a first time band there's a lot that we had to learn in order to put the album out in the way we wanted to put it out."
Still, now that it's here, the good people of Edmonton can revel in the fact that the charged music and tongue-in-cheek lyrics of Triple Exposure saw the light of day. As Gourley explains about his lyrics, the group thinks the dichotomy between its heavy music and slightly ironic subject matter mesh well together.
"I don't get political or anything, I don't go too far down on the scale where it's all jokes and stupid and I don't go too far onto the serious side—I keep it in the middle," he says, before offering an example. "We have this song called 'Cupcakes' and it's about throwing cupcakes at the Queen and it was just a funny anecdote I was telling at a bar one night and it morphed into a song. So I'm screaming about the Queen and stuff and it's funny, but at the same time the song sounds serious. I don't have a campaign against the Queen or anything, but sometimes it's fun to poke fun." V
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