I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT, is, among many things, a bit of a science experiment. For starters, the band recorded their debut album, 15 epic-yet-tasteful powerpop songs, after only 4 months of existence and just as many shows. That’s not to say the group doesn’t have experience- one of those performances was to a cheering packed-house opening up for Cursive and These Arms Are Snakes- another was alongside So-Cal’s Ozma and The Actual. But the experiments continue- the band members range in age from “not legal” to “mid-life crisis”; in an intentional effort to preserve the raw and pure nature of the songs, the band gave themselves very little time to learn and fine-tune a massive amount of material(one song on the album, “The Background”, was thrown together 2 days before it was recorded)- “I feel you can get bogged down doing too many re-writes; we’ve all been in bands where that was necessary and welcome, but I feel we’re able to capture something that is low on pretense by just going with the initial idea of the songs and not worrying about how they might be perceived or what could make them ‘cooler’, and besides, it keeps things exciting”, says singer/guitarist, John Booker. “There’s a lot of truth on the record- the writing may not always be perfect, but it’s us.”