But with us, we’ve always been a band that played material throughout all the records. That record is highly primitive compared to the records that followed. Jeremy Bolm: I’ve talked to a few friends about this because it seems like it would be a thing where digging into nostalgia would reinvigorate the aggression in the band in a more primitive sense. How do you think revisiting that material so intensely taught you about yourself and your process, and how do you think that helped influence Lament? Hard Noise: So let’s start with Dead Horse… You did a recent anniversary tour playing that, and there was a rerecording.
Details from that conversation are below. We caught up with Bolm to discuss Lament, working with a vet like Ross Robinson, approaching punk in your thirties and his favorite pieces of vinyl.
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Lament is very much in the corner of what Touche Amore does best: deliver heartfelt and furious post-hardcore with nods to screamo and heaps of melodicism, all while taking steps in new sophisticated yet tasteful directions and showing how to age gracefully. Across the album’s eleven tracks, the Los Angeles-based band sounds reinvigorated, furious and pensive - a hard feat for a band with six LPs under their belt and a decade-plus into existence. In the wake of Gale’s passing, much has been written about the ways of the Power Trip frontman, but the story also illustrates a very key thing about Bolm - a cerebral, self-deprecating, humble and emotional frontman who lays all those feelings bare in virtually everything he’s had a hand in.īolm’s approach is real and evident in his label imprint Secret Voice, his new outlet The First Ever Podcast as well as the band’s latest LP Lament, “80% completed” prior to the COVID shut down. But Riley approaching me really sweetly and talking to us in a real and kind way… it really made me love him.” Touche had gone from a loved band to swiftly the most hated band on the board then, so I was feeling really low about myself in that world. “So I remember seeing them play and thinking they were really awesome and after their set, Riley came over to me and asked if I wanted a shirt. That was sort of what educated a lot of people’s opinions, those message boards,” recalls Jeremy Bolm. “At that time, Power Trip was a cool band on the Bridge Nine message board. The show was not only a resounding success, but the first time I met the hungry Touche frontman Jeremy Bolm and the first time Bolm met Riley Gale. Power Trip was gaining steam off of their Lockin’ Out EP and Touche Amore was supporting Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me - two years removed from their fan favorite LP … To the Beat of a Dead Horse.
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In 2011 as part of Fun Fun Fun Nites, a series of afterparties associated with Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, I curated a BrooklynVegan party at the now defunct Red 7 with Power Trip, Touche Amore, Pianos Become the Teeth, Dead End Path and more.
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