Wired

Wired is the third studio album by British rock band Mallory Knox. It was released on March 10, 2017 and is the third and last album to feature Mikey Chapman on lead vocals. Background and composition Prior to joining the 2015 edition of Warped Tour in America, bassist Sam Douglas began to feel stressed. Initially, he presumed it to be burnout, however, upon visiting a doctor, he was prescribed anti-depressants. They made Douglas feel sick, and when Mallory Knox was on Warped Tour, he was "miserable. I didn't want to talk to anyone." The rest of the band was aware of Douglas' mental state, and subsequently held meetings in an attempt to, as vocalist Mikey Chapman describes, "try as a group to help him through." Following the end of a UK tour in October 2015, the band began writing for Wired. The group initially had only one or two ideas. Douglas explained: "We can't write on the road, we need a rehearsal room ... [It] was daunting because it can take a couple of months to see what direction we're going in." Chapman mentioned that they were under a lot of stress and "were feeling a bit adrift." The band subsequently wrote "Giving It Up" in an hour and a half. The song gave the group "confidence and the vision to see what the record would become." Production Recording took place at VADA Studios, on an estate near Birmingham with producer Dan Austin. On working with Austin, drummer Dave Rawling said: "He had so many great ideas on how to do things, and you can only hear by listening to this album like what he really does bring to the table." According to Douglas, the group wanted "something raw and live-sounding ... as if we’ve stood in front of them and played the songs to them." Instead of recording one instrument per week, the group opted to record the songs one-by-one, something that guitarist Joe Savins considered "the most influential thing we've ever done in terms of recording."