Music News - Built Releases New Album 'We've Been Hoping You'd Wake And Now You Have'
28 January 2022 - 0 Comments
Dean Young, musician, producer. Whose day job is a now 25-year-and-counting radio career - which at one point saw him fronting breakfast radio shows around New Zealand on Radio Hauraki along with The Rock, and nowadays behind the scenes.
He has also been writing/performing and producing his own music since 1998, swapping out the band-of-actual-humans option in favour of a solitary studio project where he took care of everything from the writing to production. It was in a Tauranga home studio where this journey began with the project breathingunderwater yielding the EP Aquatic Ceremony in 1999, the full length Horizonchrist in 2000 and the EP Prayers to Broken Stones in 2001.
Fast forward five years and a name change to This Theory of Static both in response to a name clash with an American band at the time - and, as a vehicle for a now more expanded musical vision. It was after the release of the 2006 album Re[Evolve] when Dean brought others into the band in the shape of Jerome Buckleigh, (guitar), Matt Burling (bass) and Luke Hale (drums) to record the critically acclaimed Electricity album. The band went on hiatus in late 2010 with Dean retreating back to the studio for sporadic writing and demoing over the next 5 years.
With his previous band now on hold, Dean submitted a bludgeoning cover of Darcy Clay's Jesus I was Evil under the moniker Built to the underground NZ Music Compilation Re:Cover - an underground New Zealand music exploration. A new name meant a new approach, and while previous albums were written and recorded simultaneously, Dean opted for the more traditional model of working from a collection of previously recorded demos. By early 2015, 35 songs had been demoed but it wouldn't be until 2016 that all this effort would ultimately begin to bear fruit. The result was the release of the Here's To Sweet Sabotage EP in 2018.
In March 2021 Dean took stock of how many songs he had accumulated since the EP, thinking that there would be 4 or 5 half-baked ideas and a couple of reasonably fully formed ones. He discovered 10 demos that were basically ready to go which just needed some TLC and a vocal, so he started working them up, one by one. The title came up when Dean was ruminating on these songs, sitting around on a hard drive. I thought, "it's like they were sitting there saying to me, we've been hoping you'd wake up and find us and now you have".
Once the demos became actual songs, with lyrics, he sequenced them as a cohesive unit and was surprised to discover a loose narrative emerged from the lyrical content and the tone of each song. The story is of someone who wakes up one morning to a world he no longer recognizes, where everything is upside-down, nothing makes sense, and he's bewildered that people around him carry on as if nothing is wrong.
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