For last year’s SXSW Lounge Act sessions, we invited A Place To Bury Strangers to EAR Studios and they definitely turned out to be one of the loudest sessions that week. This year, we followed up with some good friends of APTBS, Atlanta’s All The Saints. Both bands were initially labelmates on Killer Pimp before All The Saints found their debut record Fire On Corridor X reissued through Touch & Go in 2008.

In 2004, Matt Lambert, Titus Brown and Jim Crook relocated to Atlanta, GA from Tuscaloosa, AL. While they had known each other from college, they didn’t start playing music together until they hit Georgia. They worked with producer/engineer Ben H. Allen to craft their debut over a period of almost 2 years. In the interview, the guys say that Ben helped bring them to the next level & used his “pop sensibility to clean things up a little bit” in their recording process.

SXSW week ended up being pretty busy for the trio because not only did they have several shows to play, but they were also on the prowl for a “cozy new home” after the recent announcement that Touch & Go would be closing up shop. While it’s definitely a letdown that the band were unable to release their already completed 2nd album through the label, something tells us they’ll find another great home soon.

They run through a few cuts off their debut and made it through through 2 brand new songs during this performance. They were attempting a 3rd new track called “Half Red Halfway” when they blew an amp in the studio and we had to cut things short. The full podcast of this session has been edited so you’ll only really hear the bizarre moments after this happened, as it took a minute or two during the live session for everybody to figure out what was going on. But, All The Saints literally closed out the day with a bang and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Tracklisting
Closer Owner (New-Unreleased)
Farmacia
-interview-
Now Boy (New-Unreleased)
Regal Regalia

All The Saints – Closer Owner (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
All The Saints – Farmacia (Live On WOXY.com)
All The Saints – Now Boy (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
All The Saints – Regal Regalia (Live On WOXY.com)

All The Saints – Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

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