PropertyOfZack had the chance to catch up with Tim Landers (Transit) to talk about his side-project, Misser. Misser recently released a debut EP via Lost Tape Collective that can still be purchased here. Tim and I discussed the tape, the project’s future with Brad from This Time Next Year, and the future. Read up and enjoy!
It was announced back in early November that Misser, your side-project, would be releasing a tape via Lost Tape Collective. A release date was set for January 18th and pre-orders were taken. Was this scrapped? What’s the situation with that release right now?
[Laughs] No, no it wasn’t scrapped. It’s coming. I actually talked to Justin, from Lost Tape, last night about it and he has the tapes and books all done. They’ll probably be shipping out in the next week or so.
POZ: So nothing with those songs have changes once it was announced that Brad joined in?
Tim Landers: Nothing has changed with those songs. About a month or so ago when Transit were on tour in California, I met up with Brad and we did some more songs. We recorded three more tracks. A couple of them are songs from the first recording session that I did on my own. We redid two of those and did another one. It’s both me and Brad singing over them. That should be coming out sometime in the next few months as well. That came out really cool too. It’s really awesome to have him be a part of it.
POZ: Were there plans to work more on that Daytrader tour?
Tim: No, we didn’t have any set plans. The songs are done, they’re just getting mixed and mastered. We’re both caught up in our other bands. Obviously This Time Next Year is first priority for him and Transit is first priority for me. We’re just trying to do it when we have some time.
Will the new songs share vocals from the both of you?
Yeah, definitely. We both sing about the same amount.
Will the new tracks be released on Lost Tape as well?
I have no idea to be honest with you.
How do you differentiate what material goes to Misser or Transit?
Those songs were just kind of written in a different way. The song and vocals came together all at the same time. It didn’t really have anything to do with Transit from the start.
And the plan is to work together whenever you both have some spare time?
Yeah, we try to send demos back and forth online and stuff because we literally live 3,000 miles from each other. Any time he’s over here or I’m over there we’re going to get together to work on stuff.
