The album, featuring the highlights “rot in hell”, “holding the void”, and “feed me”, was co-produced & mixed by So Pitted & Dylan Wall and recorded at The Old Fire House, Media Lab, Spruce Haus, the band’s practice space and Tastefully Loud in Seattle. neo was also engineered by Wall at Tastefully Loud and mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Bakery in Los Angeles.
So Pitted is every bit as much an experiment in social partnerships as it is a noise outfit. They bonded over a shared love of alternative music (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, SMASHING PUMPKINS, NINE INCH NAILS, THE MARS VOLTA), and only after eons of hanging out did it occur to them to play music together.
Rodriguez is a self-taught quick study who learned music theory on Wikipedia;
Downey is a new wave fanatic who sticks pipe cleaners in his brain to speak to extraterrestrials;
Koewler is a longtime ballet dancer whose love of aesthetes and bands like Cocteau Twins is a strong influence on her bandmates. Together, the trio just fits, a perfect balance for one another’s quirks, strengths, and shortcomings.
Watch their new video "rot in hell" here: