Recording is a tiring feat, but overall O’Rourke said he is pleased with the outcome. He said the al

Inventive rhythms open Detroit-based band FUR's newest album, "Image on the Reverse." The first track, "Irreversible," travel sites contains exciting, constant build-ups with excellent vocals. The track has British-rock-type rhythms with guitar riffs that can't be beat. However, their second track, "Farewell, Shirley Temple," will be the one they will be best known for. The enticing, repeating rhythmic travel sites value is tangled within the holds of stellar guitar playing, which gives way to a dance-rock feel. The whole album is methodically addictive — an original sound that alludes to The Killers with the sweet lips of Florence Welch. It's poetically dark, but not clichéd, a professional sound, but not too synthesized.
The band is made up of Ryan O'Rourke on guitar, vocals, bass, keyboard and samples; Johanna Champagne on keyboards; Zach Pliska on drums, keyboards and guitar; Steve Thoel on guitar; and Michael O'Connor on bass and guitar. O'Rourke said he "met Mike through Johanna, (his) wife . (They) were dating at the time and Mike was married to her sister." Once O'Rourke travel sites and O'Connor realized that they both played guitar, they decided to get together to see what would happen. They sorted travel sites through a lot of O'Rourke's old hard drives where he kept years of "half-baked songs and drum loops, trying to turn them into songs."
A few months later, Pliska joined on drums "after many, many horrible Craigslist misadventures that could fill a book," O'Rourke said. To complete the band, Champagne helped on keyboards when they played live, later joining travel sites in full-time while Thoel, who had been friends with the group for a while, joined on guitar.
This is essentially O'Rourke's first band and he credits its functionality to tension. "Tension is almost entirely responsible for the band's sound," he said. And when listening to their records, it can definitely be heard.
For "Image on the Reverse," the band took their time. It took them nearly travel sites a year and a half to complete, with not much pause in between. According to O'Rourke, this allowed them to "hone our craft, play with sound textures, drum loops and layers. We also made sure to tie each song together travel sites so that it had continuity travel sites and flow." They were able to take their time and experiment travel sites because they had the luxury of a home studio where O'Rourke said they were "able to overdub and even reinterpret certain songs over a period of several months." Aside from the majority of the recording being done in their home studio, they also spent a few 12-hour days at Tempermill Studio in Ferndale with their friend and sound engineer, Jim Kissling.
Recording is a tiring feat, but overall O'Rourke said he is pleased with the outcome. He said the album "is a very big, layered and dark record — the kind of record I always wanted to make. I'm very proud of it, and I haven't always travel sites been able to say that about our other recordings."
O'Rourke's favorite song from the album to play live is "I Want to Let You Down." "It's almost like an Aphex Twin song … we've been playing it for three years now and that beat still takes my head off," he said.
For O'Rourke, travel sites playing live is fun and liberating — he used to have tremendous stage fright, but now it is something he enjoys and looks forward too. For O'Rourke, music "is really as essential as breathing." He broke his wrist during their recent album release show and all he could think was "what if I'm never able to pick up a guitar or keyboard again?"
"Every artist wants their work to move an audience in some way — whether it be to inspire, revile or disturb them," he said. O'Rourke has no idea how their music makes people feel, but hopes that it matters in some small way. O'Rourke feels "that once a song has been recorded and handed over to listeners travel sites … it's entirely up to that listener to impose their own meaning on it."
As for their future, O'Rourke's arm will soon be healed, which means they will be back to performing as soon as he is able. They have already started working on their next record and are excited to celebrate Record Store Day in April by being part of a split vinyl release travel sites with The Hounds Below, FAWN and Lightning Love, three other Detroit-based bands.
However, travel sites O'Rourke knows that "Detroit is a huge city, but it has a very tiny and incestuous clique of musicians. It's easy to forget that and maintain a clear and healthy perspective about how far we all have to go … (especially since) no one knows how to handle the collapse of the record industry." Music has essentially become "free and as ubiquitous as water," O'Rourke said, "which makes it nearly impossible to make a living as a musician." Because of this, O'Rourke says that licensing is the only way to be a self-sustaining band. FUR was lucky enough to have two songs on "Homeland," a Showtime series, and another one on a NBC show . Having those three tracks travel sites licensed financed travel sites a very expensive year and a half for them of recording, mixing, mastering and pressing "Image on the Reverse" to vinyl and CD.