ABRAMS Released a Record — Then the World Shut Down | Zach Amster on COVID & Modern Ways

ABRAMS guitarist and vocalist Zach Amster on what it was like to release a record and then watch the entire music industry shut down almost immediately after — and what that experience meant for the band, their momentum, and ultimately how they approached making their next record. Modern Ways came out in 2020. The timing couldn't have been harder. The tours didn't happen, the shows didn't happen, and a record the band had worked toward for years went out into the world at exactly the moment the world stopped being able to engage with it the way music is meant to be engaged with — live, in a room, with other people. Zach talks about navigating that experience, what it did to the band's process and mindset, and how coming out the other side of it shaped the urgency and intensity that went into making Loon — ABRAMS' new album out now on Blues Funeral Recordings. It's a story a lot of bands lived through during that period,