Vaden Todd Lewis (Vocals, Guitar) Mark Reznicek (Drums) Clark Vogeler (Guitar) Donivan Blair (Bass) Toadies’ long-awaited eighth album, The Charmer is their most personal and visceral to date. One of the last recordings by late, legendary producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey etc.), it for the first time captures the platinum-selling Texas foursome playing live in the same room on a studio recording, bottling their singular Southern-tinted grunge like never before. “From record one, we always wanted to work with Albini,” said Vaden Todd Lewis, Toadies’ founding vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter. “We got to go do our dream record that we had always wanted to do.” Toadies long-serving drummer Mark Reznicek added “When we first signed with the major label back in 1993, they asked us who we wanted to record with and we all replied ‘Albini!’ But they immediately vetoed that choice for whatever reason,” he laughed, adding “not commercial enough or something. But now, we finally got to do it our way!” Bassist Donivan Blair adds “I wanted to work with Steve from the first note of ‘Goat’ by Jesus Lizard. We were able to fulfill a 30 year dream of mine. Steve was as advertised- he had an acerbic wit and dark sense of humor so we felt at home. His dedication to the craft of recording blew my mind. We won’t see his kind of engineer ever again and recorded music will suffer because of it. ”
