HURRICANE GOSPEL came about after a few years of grand statements, mishaps and false starts. The genesis of this album dates to 2008 when I decided to write a rock opera for my senior project in music Theory. The title was going to be "Lives of American Teens." It was based roughly on the dissolution of a relationship between my two best friends, both of whom would also be playing on the album. The project fell apart but I passed the class based on three of the songs I wrote: "How Do You Fix A Fuck Up?", "Long Hot Summer", and the title track.

The summer after high school I moved out of my father's house and into a house with my closest friends. This house is where I first fell in love with the girl who would be my wife. "Lives of American Teens" started to transform into something completely different. Inspired by teenage independence, new love and the sense of impending doom that was (and still is) surrounding our country, I began writing a dystopian love story. The album was going to be called "Anyone Can Do This" and it was the story of true love in a zombie filled nuclear wasteland.

Tagline: "In a world where all must be lobotomized to become adults, a young woman struggles to return her lovers brain back to his skull. Or forever love a zombie!" I was very excited about the album but it never came together as a whole statement. Four of the songs from that album have made their way onto HURRICANE GOSPEL ("True American Runaway" "(Let's Go To The) Drive-In" "Zombie Love 1" and "Anyone Can Do This").

After abandoning my first two albums I retreated to the basement on my 19th birthday and recorded a one-day album of trash called "Nineteen". Two more albums of tapedeck demos ("Leprosy" and "More Songs") and one attempt at bedroom pop ("Spastic Zombie Death Dreams") followed over the next couple of years.

I began to get restless and unsatisfied in the fall of 2011. My output up until this point had been inscrutable and unpleasant and I was yearning for an audience. The solution: gather my most talented friends and record the best songs I had written up until this point. Together we took a shot at recording the best sounding record we could.

Marty Morgan (drums) is the backbone of the Invisible Mountains* sound. His playing can be subtle or thundering. Nathan Bollig (Guitar/ Vocals) and John Zillmer (Bass) both have a clear sense of musicality and harmony that counters the way I bash away and holler. My love and inspiration, Danielle Lambert, brings sweetness and innocence to our sound with her vocals. And lastly Jason Mumma (Keys) is a disciple of both Ray Manzarek and Roy Bittan, bringing together the ramshackle carnival that has become the sound of HURRICANE GOSPEL.

The record is homemade and drenched in our hard-earned sweat. It arrives in shambles with "Mighty Youth Society" and leaves on the waves of the apocalypse with "Anyone Can Do This." With stop offs at the absurd: "King of The World", bitter: "What Was It That They Put In Your Head?", and hopeful "On and On (We Are Spacemen)". Salvaged from the wreckage of past failures and presented in glorious stereophonic sound, HURRICANE GOSPEL is here for your listening pleasure.

-Seth

*Original digital release under the name Invisible Mountains, 2012