H2O has posted the video for “What Happened?” The video was shot in NYC, with Lou Koller from Sick Of It All and Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio making appearances. Oh and of course, that record store the band is shopping in is Generation Records. Check out the awesomeness below. Have you read our interview with Toby yet? Well, get with it kid!
Photo Credit: Todd Pollock
“I wanted to make our Everything Sucks,” H2O lead singer Toby Morse said when describing the process of making their latest album, Nothing To Prove (Bridge Nine Records). While nearly ten years passed between those Descendents records, comparing the two makes sense. Seven years have passed since their last record, the much-discussed major label debut, GO. Think about that for a second. By music industry standards, that’s like being gone for a century.
Personally, I graduated high school and college in that time frame. All the bands that were banging out that mall-rocking pop punk back in 2001 have traded in their Dickies for dayglo hoodies and flat-brimmed baseball hats. Hell, the whole music industry is a different machine now. Ultimately though, through it all, H2O are still, as Morse describes, the “same old dudes” and their message will never change. Nothing To Prove is their testimony to that.
It’s been seven years since GO. Obviously, a lot has happened with you personally and the band along the way. That being said, what do you want the overall message of Nothing To Prove to be?
Toby: We’ve changed as people as far as getting older and having more responsibilities [but] we haven’t changed as people who still believe in the music that we were playing seven years ago. All the albums, the message and how we grew up into this music, it’s still instilled in us. We’ve done the indies and we’ve done the majors. We definitely paid our dues. It was a no pressure and fun record to make.
We all have other forms of incomes. Before it was a full time thing and now it’s not. We did the record in two and a half weeks. What do we have to lose at this point? We definitely wanted to make our best album. When the Descendents disappeared for a long time, they came back with Everything Sucks and that record was amazing. I wanted to make our Everything Sucks. A record that when you heard it, you’d be like ‘oh shit, these dudes still got it.’ It’s the most personal record [but] it’s just as raw and in your face as the first couple records. The last record we had a lot of money and a lot of time to make it. I wish we would have done it this way.
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