The third and last single from Chevelle's eighth studio album “The North Corridor” is none other than “Rivers” released on May 9th, 2017. This was at least two weeks before I walked into my new chapter as a newly converted Chevelle fan, but not only that, I was accosted by a radio DJ about snagging the last remaining tickets to their upcoming concert, and by July I was whisked away to my very first Chevelle show.
“I really want to make a really heavy record this time around, go back to our [2002’s] ‘Wonder What’s Next’ roots a little bit. And it’s what we like to play live, so it just made sense. Sam and Dean love heavy music as well; Sam likes a lot of hardcore, screamo stuff, so he was happy with that. They basically let me go and agreed that heavy was a good way to go.”
“This record was not easy. This record was tough,” he tells Billboard. “I basically didn’t know if we were ever gonna finish it. It was almost like I wasn’t happy with anything. There were a few songs that I knew were great ideas, and yet I couldn’t put them out the way they were, so we actually had a point of crisis in the studio. We had some depressing moments there. I literally left L.A. without (‘Last Days’) done and I came home and worked on it at my house and added all these new parts and emailed them off to Joe Barresi. I think I was over-complicating the whole thing but I’m happy that it worked out.”
“The dynamic, ebb-and-flowing ‘Rivers,’ on the other hand, came much easier for Chevelle. ‘That’s one of the songs that Sam really grabbed onto and likes a lot,’ says Loeffler, whose photo of his two-year-old son graces the cover of the Deluxe Edition of The North Corridor. ‘It’s got that sort of Spanish-style guitar in the beginning and sort of an Italian vibe in the middle and it’s got this heavy aspect to it, so it’s got the light and it’s got the heavy and then it’s got an epic ending. You finish an album and you don’t even want to look at it, but it’s been a couple of months now and I was driving the other day and I put it on and I had to pull over and text my brother and say, ‘Dude, I have to say good job on (‘Rivers’). It’s hard to have a clear perspective when you’re in the thick of it. And that’s one I can’t wait to play live.’”
Listen to the song below:
