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Make Your Exit Makes An Entrance

Written by Emily Santos Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:43

It’s a busy month for Toronto’s Sneaky Dee’s as they open their doors to welcome oodles of Canadian indie musicians. Included amongst their booming schedule is the highly anticipated CD release party for Ontario’s Make Your Exit. The group has been eagerly awaiting the chance to drop Remind Me the Reason I Came, their second EP album.

The follow-up release from Jeff Buckley, Mike Dellios, Mike Thomson, Skidboot and Oliver Pauk exposes their most creative and innovative song-writing to date.
For Remind Me the Reason I Came, the boys traveled to Trenton, Ontario where they converged at an abandoned church – now a recording studio – to begin work on this latest compilation of tunes.

“We recorded it back in June – the end of June [2009]. We went to the studio for 10 days and I think the process of recording that album took some time. Three months prior to that we were doing pre-production stuff for it,” says bassist Dellios. “We went up to Trenton where we spent ten days basically living in the studio.”

Lead vocalist and guitarist Buckley says recording at the abandon church was like living in a “musical playground.” Creating this project outside of the hustle and bustle of Toronto produced a sharpened end result he confesses, adding that it was a satisfying experience to concentrate solely on his singing and song-writing.

“It was a pretty cool experience,” Buckley says. “It was pretty awesome to actually get out of the city and all of the other stuff that usually distracts us. We could actually focus on what we were there to do. Hopefully, although we’ll never know, it yielded it a better product.”

Prior to the release of their sophomore album, the boys of Make Your Exit, and their ambient indie rock, was featured at the renowned Canadian Music Week and the North By Northeast Music Festival. Buckley and co. have shared the stage with top Canadian independent talents like Black Diamond Bay, Fox Jaws, The Paint Movement and Dan Griffin of the Arkells.

Remind Me the Reason I Came marks the first time all five boys have been in a studio together. Dellios says that working as a team made this project more pleasurable and the final piece is truly a collaboration of colourful artists.

“It was really cool how we got to lay down the tracks we have been working on collectively and get them into a format where we could listen to them on our CD player,” Dellios says. “Finally we had this product that we were super-excited about and very proud of and we’re fond of the memories that it took to make it. All in all it was a very positive experience.”

Remind Me the Reason I Came was released independently on September 22nd, but its official release date was September 25th.

The band will be hitting the road throughout the fall to promote their EP. In October the boys will be making visits throughout Ontario, stopping in Kingston at Clark Hall Pub, in Ottawa at Cafe Dekcuf and in Hamilton at Maxwell’s Music House. They will be touring with The City, Corduroy, The Paint Movement, Cam Malcolm, The Owls and Fox Jaws.

For more information on tour dates and to download free songs from Make Your Exit log onto their MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/makeyourexit.