Ohio post-grind band Tina Fey have surprise dropped a brand new EP today.

Titled In Living Memory, the three-song release was written following the departure of former Tina Fey member Bryce Aasen last year. The tracks were recorded by Andrew Tetrick, mixed by Johnny DeBorde (For Your Health), and mastered by Ryan Prushinski (Doom Beach).

Vocalist/guitarist Logan Nichols said this about the release:

“In Living Memory is the first three songs that Shon and I wrote after Bryce left the band. That's why the first song is called ‘No More Bryce,’ because we started working on it as soon as he left the practice space. Lyrically, it's about the feelings I was dealing with in ending a five-year long musical relationship with a good friend. We were planning on booking studio time in November to record, but then we were offered a show at a venue that does livestream stuff so we practiced a lot in hopes that we wouldn't make any mistakes so that we could buy the audio tracks from the venue. Thankfully we didn't f—k up too much.
Everything on the EP is from that performance except for a secondary vocal track on ‘I've Never Been To Uvu Javer,’ the way that the vocal mic was placed at the venue prevented the mumbled parts from being isolated enough to sound good on the final recording. To preserve the sense of urgency from the performance, I routed the right speaker from a pair of headphones into an interface to use it as a microphone and recorded the secondary vocals that way. I sent everything to Johnny DeBorde to mix it and Ryan Prushinski mastered the EP. I've always been way into the music those guys make and over the past couple years we've become buds, so it was really cool to get to work with the two of them on this project.”

The lead single from the release titled “I’ve Never Been To Uvu Javer” comes with a music video that can be seen here. Nichols said this about the song:

“This is definitely our most subdued song, and I don't think we'll make much more material in that sonic realm. But topically, we agreed that it was the most important of this release. We assume that many may be able to figure out the specifics of the narrative, but ultimately, it's a finger pointed to the true source of ‘terrorism’ in the Middle East and globally. We're excited to hit the road with these songs as well as the newer ones as we continue to write and play around with the lineup of the group. I'm happy though that this time as a two-piece is well documented whether it stays this way or not.”

In Living Memory is available on digital services right now here.