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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nIn recent years, we’ve seen a handful of Canadian bands leaving their mark on the emo\/pop-punk scene. Seaway, Rarity and Like Pacific have followed the footsteps of influential Canucks Sum 41 and Simple Plan. You can now add Castlefield<\/strong> to that pool of bands.<\/p>\n Based out of\u00a0Ottawa, Ontario, the quartet are releasing their second EP, ‘Tunnel Vision’,<\/em> tomorrow through Penultimate Records<\/strong> (Handguns, Bukowski, Brightr). Its four tracks sees Castlefield<\/strong> blur the boundaries between emo and pop-punk providing a set of songs full of straight up honesty. Combined with an accessible, upbeat sound, it gives the Canadian four-piece plenty of potential going forward.<\/p>\n As always, Already Heard loves to put the spotlight on exciting up-and-coming bands and Castlefield<\/strong> is no different.\u00a0Ahead of its full release, we’re premiering\u00a0‘Tunnel Vision’\u00a0<\/em>in its entirety. We also spoke to vocalist and guitarist Ryan Fitz, as he gives a track-by-track breakdown of the EP.<\/p>\n This was the song the took the longest to write on ‘Tunnel Vision’. I wrote the song in its earliest form, probably somewhere around early 2015. My friends and family have probably heard me play it a million different ways by now, because of how many shapes and forms it\u2019s existed in, I even used to perform it a lot when I would play solo shows back in the day. The song didn\u2019t really start taking its final form until I brought it to the rest of the guys and we turned it into more of a \u201cpop-punk\u201d sounding tune around late last year. <\/em><\/p>\n I am really proud of how it sounds now and how we all did our own part to make it come to life. While it was the longest process for writing a song for ‘Tunnel Vision’, I think it was definitely worth the amount of time it took to create. <\/em><\/p>\n ‘Heaven Sent’ is a song that started with an interesting chord pattern that myself and Connor (Neilson – guitar) came up with together in an open tuning that I like to think we created. This is definitely the odd one out on the EP, because we just wanted to try something different. ‘Heaven Sent’ almost abandons the idea that we are anything close to a pop-punk band and it almost goes in more of a post-hardcore direction at points. This is one of those songs that we wrote purely from emotion and didn\u2019t think too hard about trying to fit into a genre somewhere. <\/em><\/p>\n I wrote it about growing up in a household where you might not always have the support you desire from your loved ones, and how tough that can be to get over. Everything came together fairly quickly because of how exciting the process of writing something completely different was. I really like how much we experimented with things here. I\u2019ll never forget tracking the end portion of it in the studio and Anton being like \u201cI thought you guys were an emo band, what\u2019s this??\u201d That\u2019s why we chose to make it the second track, so it will come in and surprise the listeners and that\u2019s probably why it\u2019s the one I\u2019m most excited to see people\u2019s reaction to.<\/em>Best Laid Plans<\/h2>\n
Heaven Sent<\/h2>\n
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