AV-Based Band Celebrates Release of New Album

Originally posted at 1:01 p.m. Sept. 15, 2014. Edited with new details.

Aliso Viejo-based The Devious Means (2014 OC Music Awards Indie band of the Year, and 2013 People’s Choice winner) hosted a huge album release party this weekend.

The party went down at the Wayfarer in Costa Mesa Saturday to celebrate new album “Other Animals,” which comes out Tuesday.

The band members gave a great interview about the new album to the OC Weekly. Read it here.

And here are some details from lead guitarist Andy McCraw:

• Produced, mixed, and engineered by Eli Thomson (The Wallflowers, Delta Spirit, Father John Misty, Ivan & Alyosha, Richard Swift)
• Recorded at Elliot Smith’s studio in Van Nuys (New Monkey), as well as Aliso Viejo (Flying H Studios)
• This is the band’s first full-length album (third album overall)
• Sonically it represents a mature departure from the previous albums - landing on more of a indie/blues/rock/soul vibe (think Jack White meets Adele with The Black Keys as a backing band)
• “Rusty Little Scissors” is the first single featured on the album
• Album artwork is by Joshua Ariza (Breaking Bad, Red Bull, Nike, Hurley, Billabong, Facebook)

PHOTO Courtesy The Devious Means. Credit: Jose Rodriguez.