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The Rocket Summer on the cover of The Aquarian Weekly!

WASHINGTON - JUNE 23: Bryce Avary, of the band Circa Survive, plays at the Invisible Children’s ‘How It Ends’ lobbying campaign rally at The Ellipse on June 23, 2009 in Washington, DC.

The themes of your albums have evolved over the years. Calendar Days and Hello, Good Friend were very internal and soul-searching, Do You Feel was more outward and socially conscious, and now Of Men and Angels is the most spiritually centered of your work. How did this shift occur in your writing process?

I think that the shift is just natural, in growth and in spiritual growth. [On] Calendar Days, I’m writing songs about how I can’t wait to quit working at Starbucks so I can sleep in! That’s like the farthest thing from where I am at as a 27-year-old now. This album especially, it’s a very hopeful album, but it touches on harder times. There’s this common thread about giving yourself up and serving others, and that’s just something that really weighed heavy on my heart during this season of my life and while I was writing this record.

J-14: Which song is the most personal to you?
Bryce: There’s a lot, to be honest. “Of Men and Angels” is really important to me — I named the album after this song because it’s about putting work and everything else before loving the people in your life. “Nothing Matters” I thought was very cool because I had a really rough day, and I walked outside from the studio and there was this homeless man. I was totally hung up on the obstacles that we were facing that day with the record, and this guy and I just spoke. [After that I saw things] from a different perspective, and I wrote the song that day and recorded it the next day, all within 24 hours.

Article on Call It Captivate in the Nov. AMP magazine.

Bryce featured in the AP Mag