HOTSPUR
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Sometimes Timing Is Everything.
Its something four music business graduates from the University of Maryland understand well. Before forming HOTSPUR, they were a piano-driven rock quartet known as Day Station. The group spent the better part of senior year in college pouring their heart and soul into their debut album "The Beat Says Yes", simultaneously keeping up touring, finishing school, and holding down part-time jobs. When it finally came time to release the album, the band found itself exhausted and burned out. The album barely made it to the pressing and the band went on hiatus.
Fast-forward six months. After re-evaluating the album and the band as a whole, they decided to scrap Day Station and start over. They threw out most of the songs on the album, gave away all of "The Beat Says Yes" as promotional CD's, and started re-hauling the band-a sort of mid-life crisis. The frustration and determination of the past weeks forged an electric new sound that would become the essence of HOTSPUR: blaring guitars and kinetic synth riffs intermixing with punchy bass lines and "get-up-and-dance" drums; tight harmonies on top of elaborate soundscapes and soaring melodies; and at the core of it all, excellent songs that are pure entertainment. "Making the change to HOTSPUR was all about setting the bar higher," says singer Joe Mach, "songwriting, recording, performing-we're taking things to the next level."
And then things got interesting. Around the time the HOTSPUR EP was wrapping up, a staff writer for Music Monthly came across a copy of the Day Station album and wrote a rave review-- "one of the best local albums I've heard in a long time." After that, the reviews came trickling in-about six months too late. As the band continued playing shows as Day Station, to make ends meet, they started seeing a change-more and more new faces at their shows-packing the venues and singing along to every word. Sometimes timing is everything.
When it came time to decide whether to ride their fledgling success or start anew with HOTSPUR, it came down to a single simple factor. As drummer Scott Robinson puts it, "We didn't feel that our work as Day Station really represented our best work as a band. This does."
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