Lipton Witch

Despite the fact that I barely have time to check what's happening with the indie/alt/experimental scene, the news about Circa Survive's upcoming album couldn't stay unnoticed! That's how I started digging and found out that the guys released a split with the legendary Sunny Day Real Estate for this year's Record Store Day. Yeah, I kinda missed on that...

Needless to say - excitement went through the roof! After releasing Diary (1994) and LP1 (1995) the band kinda went on hiatus with Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith joining Foo Fighters and vocal Jeremy Enigk going solo, Anyhow, how did "Lipton Witch" and the splt with CS came about?

"I went to see a few of the Sunny Day Real Estate shows when they toured in 2009 and I knew they’d written and recorded at least one song during that time. I got Jeremy Enigk’s info from a mutual friend and emailed him asking if they had anything planned with the track. I knew they were on a hiatus and I hated the idea of that song never being released. Jeremy spoke with the other guys who all seemed interested to do the split I had I proposed. We had a B-side we’d been sitting on that had a mellower vibe which seemed to balance their more rocking song in a way that another upbeat jam might not have. I couldn’t be more happy that this is happening. I honestly think this one of the best songs Sunny Day has ever written and I’m really happy that fans are going to get to hear it."

Brendan Ekstrom / Circa Survive