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By Ace Simms

3Pill Morning, a rock band of out Minneapolis, is a band on the
rise. Energetic live shows, combined with music written straight
from the heart, have seen them jump up the charts and build a loyal
fan base. e year 2016 has been a busy year for 3 Pill Morning. ey
completed a successful spring headlining tour, went out as support
with ousand Foot Krutch and Adelita’s Way on the Exhale tour,
and, on July 29th, released their full-length album, Never Look Back.
We caught up with Je , Jon, and Riplee while they were out on tour
to discuss the making of the new album and what life has been like
over the last year.

I am here with 3 Pill Morning. How are you guys doing?
We’re Good

You guys are back out on tour in support of the new album, Never Look
Back. It is a great album; tell me how you guys feel about it.

(Riplee): ere is so much that went into this album in particular. I
think we all felt like there was a lot on the line with this album; there
ended up being a lot of those die hard emotions that went into the
making of this album. ere are a lot of di erent songs and a lot of high
intensity emotional songs along that way.

(Jon): I think my favorite part of making this album, and I have done Just to touch on what Riplee said, there is a lot of pain in this album. One of
many albums before, was it wasn’t just me on guitar. If someone heard you went though some shit. Tell me where these lyrics came from.
a ri , like Je would be like, “Play this, but try something di erent.”
(Riplee): It’s painful being on the road, man, it really is. I mean this is, as
ere was a lot of input from people that don’t play my instrument. It much as we get our 30 or 40 minutes of fame every night (which we love
just brought a whole new life to the way the album was presented. Ideas to death and that is what keeps us doing this), it is still the hardest business
would spark other ideas. It was cool that our producer Ian plays every that I have ever been a part of. I have read about tons of other jobs. I see
instrument possible, so every idea that I had in mind that I was dead TV shows about the dirtiest jobs in the world, and I think about that stu ,
set on opened a whole new door. Like with the song, “Vultures” I was and I am like, “that is still not as shitty as this business is sometimes.” You
like, “ ere needs to be a solo and blah blah blah.” If you listen to it back know what I mean? It feels like for us sometimes you get to that next step,
and forth, and with the state of the world we are in now, if you listen to and you are so stoked you got there, and this oodgate of this other bullshit
the lyrical content it all just kind of happened and made sense. I don’t just comes ying at you. It is this endless game of leapfrog, and you just keep
know; life events happen too, so it was really cool and unique event and doing it because you love that interaction you get with the crowd; you love
album to be a part of. the way that the music makes you feel every time you get to play it.
(Je ): To echo what Jon said, we tried to write while we were touring,
so the ideas were really fresh. We would just go in and collaborate, and (Jon): I would say that some of the songs on the new album were all old
things would happen really quickly. Typically, in the past we would guitar ideas that I had ve, six years ago. At that point in time when I wrote
write a bunch of songs, sit on them for six months, and overanalyze them, they had di erent meanings, and we kind of changed a few things.
them, you know, just start to hate them a er a while. Where here, we I never really talked to Je and said, “I am feeling this way; can you write
would tour, and we would have these ideas. We would go in to the studio lyrics like this?” He just kind of took it with the mood that it was set with,
and record and then back out on the road, and we would have three and ironically, it literally related to what I was going through in life. I was
more ideas; we just kept going, so the energy was always there. We were like, “ is is a good song.” I never emailed him and said, “I like the mood
really trying to capture that energy that we have playing live and just go of this song; can you write lyrics about this?” I literally just showed him the
in and do the best recording that we could, and we’re are really excited song, and he sang lyrics in a vocal melody that related to what I wanted to
for how it turned out. Long story short, I think we’re all super stoked for tell him but never put in an email or with pen and paper. It was kind of
how it all came together, in such an unexpected way. weird; it was like it was meant to be.