Newer Mexico from Heavy Sleeper by Vincent Draper

We made this album at Archive Records in North Salt Lake, Utah. We worked with our dear friend, Wes Johnson, who engineered and mixed the record. This was our first time recording live and we did it all to tape. In the past, we’ve done all of our records track by track. It was so cool to have all of us in same room, we we’re really vibing like never before. The room sounded magic, it really brought the drums to life. We had Chase’s Vibrolux and my Deluxe in one room, and the bass amp (I think we went back and forth from the Ampeg PF 20T and Wes’ old Bassman) along with Wes’ Vibrosonic that we ran the Rhodes through, in the other big iso-booth. I didn’t even try to do vocals while tracking, I’m no Dan Fletcher. We over dubbed the vocals and auxiliary percussion pretty quickly. The Heavy Sleeper sessions were done in less than a week, if I remember correctly.

The sound of Vincent Draper and The Culls is mysterious and seductive. They move from genre to genre with a certain charm and candor that is entirely their own. The Culls are dreamy, dynamic, and hypnotic. They sway from devastatingly haunting laments to thunderous psychedelic bangers, all the while sewing their rich, moody darkness into every note.