The evening time correct prior to the Exies developed their new EP, Closure, frontman Scott Stevens walked the Loudwire Nights audience by suggests of it, monitor-by-track.

“These are 6 music that all have that means to them,” Stevens instructed host Chuck Armstrong on Thursday evening (June 27). “It is really just outrageous. I indicate, I’m talking to the guys [in the band] and everybody’s just type of scratching their head a little bit. How did we get listed here?”

The Exies have not developed a choice of new music provided that 2007’s complete-length, A Present day Way of Dwelling With the Truth of the matter, their fourth album. Because then, Stevens has remained active as a songwriter, collaborator and producer, but a quantity of decades ago, some issue astonished him as he was crafting a music that would at some point turn into the EP’s 3rd track, “s.A.D.”

“Almost everything getting turned on its head and wanting change was the matter of that song,” Stevens mentioned as he reflected on obtaining motivated by the planet-wide pandemic from a quantity of years in the previous.

“There is a line that says ‘dreaming of a future that I’ll never ever have,’ you know? But the times are acquiring brighter.”

Stevens admitted that writing that song led to him generating the initial formal Exies music that was introduced in virtually 15 decades, 2023’s “Spirits Higher.”

“With no that track,” he reported about “s.A.D.,” ‘Spirits High’ would not exist.”

In addition to “Spirits Large” and “s.A.D.,” Closure capabilities 4 a lot more new songs from the Exies, each individual telling a story of the very last numerous yrs and each and every tying with each other this topic of confronting the darkness of the globe while longing for some sense of hope.

“We all look for concerns to elevate us,” Stevens stated. “It is seriously a balance. Not all the issues is glory all the time. Sometimes you gotta confront up to that and I really feel that the music you really should not try to sugarcoat it.”

Stevens phone calls these new tunes “superior medicine.”

“It makes it possible for you know that I’m feeling what you sense and I hope you are feeling what I sense.”

As for the potential of the Exies, Stevens is focusing entirely on the moment, for the reason that he in no way believed he’d be right here chatting about new songs from the band he launched in Los Angeles in 1997.

“I have a wishlist in my head that I am in search of to manifest by placing it out there,” he admitted. “I am chatting to my management group — we are in search of to set it collectively. We are attempting to make feeling of how do we love more shows, how do we do this charge properly … We are hoping to figure it out.”

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You can find no issue that Closure is a welcomed setting up place for whatsoever the long term retains for the Exies. These six tunes will no doubt remind admirers of the audio they fell in appreciate with in the late-’90s and mid-’00s whilst providing them a new, hopeful feeling of what is actually to occur.

As Stevens and Chuck wrapped their dialogue, he confessed he is nevertheless not guaranteed how he feels about becoming in a position celebrating new audio from the Exies.

“This is all so surreal to me. I can not think that I’m listed right here. The band was the issue that I beloved so a lot and it was so hard to say goodbye to it or just cease — we in no way broke up. We just stopped … I hope you locate your self in [this new EP] by some suggests and can relate to this. From the dim to the light — test to uncover the hope.”

What Else Did the Exies’ Scott Stevens Explore on Loudwire Nights?

• How imagining Lzzy Hale singing assisted him complete the EP’s title track, “Closure”
• Why he wanted Closure to loosely adhere to the 5 levels of grief
• What it felt like to engage in the Exies’ the latest reunion demonstrate at the Viper Home in Los Angeles

Hear to the Total Interview in the Podcast Participant Under

Scott Stevens joined Loudwire Nights on Thursday, June 27 the display replays on the internet in this article, and you can tune in are living just about every weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app you can also see if the demonstrate is accessible on your nearby radio station and hear to interviews on-demand from customers.