Label: Deathwish
Released 3/15/2024
Deep Sage, Gouge Away’s third studio album, started coming together in 2019 during sound checks and in small pockets of downtime between tours. In early 2020, they demoed with Brok Mende in an unassuming storage unit in Orlando. They pulled influence not only from the nostalgia of the bands they grew up listening to but also developed the sense of urgency, noise, and introspective lyrics they felt most represented them. Those demos helped shape the songs into the finished record that Deep Sage would become. Deep Sage was recorded with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden East in March 2023 completely analog and almost entirely live. The band recorded together in a live room while Christina was in an isolation booth. Her vocals projected from a monitor so the band could hear her. The goal of recording live was to sound like five friends playing in a room together, just like where they started in Florida. Unpolished and far from being overproduced, this is what the heart of Gouge Away has always been.
Track listing:
- Stuck In A Dream
- Maybe Blue
- Idealized
- Deep Sage
- A Welcome Change
- Overwatering
- No Release
- The Sharpening
- Spaced Out
- Newtau
- Dallas