Last Friday, Activity (activitysongs) released their brand new record 'Spirit in the Room.' Vocalist and songwriter Travis Johnson sat down with us and gave a track-by-track breakdown of the whole project.
, “to keep from losing our minds.” Entrapped in the endless haze of the pandemic, the group shaved down their sound to its essentials, making heavy use of electronica instrumentals to make up for their enforced separation. At the same time, lead vocalist Travis Johnson underwent a number of life-altering personal metamorphoses—namely, losing his mother to pancreatic cancer.
In the darkness of this personal tragedy, Johnson wove his grief into the musical patterns that would comprise—an eerie, philosophical tome on life and death. It’s a massive undertaking, and one the band has wrestled with for three years. “The grief was this colossal thing,” Johnson notes. He had to make sense of it somehow, and the sprawling synths and elemental noise rock of Spirit in the Room trace his trajectory toward peace.
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