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Something Corporate re-recording songs for greatest hits album

Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 2/9/10 @ 10:27 AM - altpress.com

Something Corporate--who announced that they will reunite at the Bamboozle California--spent the past week in Santa Monica recording new versions of "Wait" and "Letters To Noelle"--two songs that originally appeared on the band's 2001 EP, Galaxy Sessions.

Frontman Andrew McMahon told the OC Weekly, "We basically went back [into the studio] with this idea that we would kind of revisit a couple of demos that we never really ended up putting on the first two [Something Corporate] records but that we still loved and that we always wanted to do." McMahon went onto say, "We went back into the studio sort of with the idea that we wouldn't be bringing in brand new material so we could get it done quickly and not have to do a bunch of pre-production and stuff. We just hung out in the studio for a week. First time we had been in a studio together in, God, probably four or five years."

The Galaxy Sessions EP was given to members of Something Corporate's mailing list who sold more than five tickets to the band's May 11, 2001, show at the House Of Blues in Anaheim. The new versions of the song are slated to appear on a greatest hits compilation which will be released in April or May. McMahon says there will likely be three or four tracks on the album that are new recordings or mixes.