On the long drive to the LSU ski trip, most students spend their time sleeping through the car ride. But not the lead singer of local band Few Blue. 

Camryn Wisniewski, who graduated from LSU in December, was busy writing songs in between driving shifts. After performing 45 shows in 2023 and spending countless hours in the studio recording, the group is dropping its first EP “So Damn Wrong” on Saturday. 

Vocalist Wisniewski, guitarist Brad Boozer, drummer Rob Schexnayder, rhythm guitarist and keys Jake “Jit” Lamy and bassist Christian Liang had been working with multi-gold and platinum-winning producer and audio engineer Jack Miele to bring their dream to life. 

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“It was such a great learning experience with Jack, all of it,” Wisniewski said.

“So Damn Wrong” 

Wisniewski said one of the first ideas for the EP’s name was “Glitter on Halsey.” It originates from the street that they practice on, which has glitter on it all of the time because Schexnayder’s mom does arts and crafts in the garage. 

But there was one problem. If you were to search up “Glitter on Halsey,” Few Blue’s EP wouldn’t appear, but the “Without Me” singer Halsey would. 

The title “So Damn Wrong” came from the first song that the band wrote, Boozer said. It started out as a riff the guitar player wrote in high school that evolved as each member added their own elements, and eventually, the lyrics that were written on that ski trip. 

“We went with our baby, our first song,” Wisniewski said. 

Schexnayder described the five songs as grunge, heavy, fast and “in your face.” Each song taps into each member’s influences spanning from Rage Against the Machine to Miley Cyrus. 

“I’m very confident with these songs,” Schexnayder said. “I think they’ll stand the test of time to be honest with you.” 

The process

The audience and playing with a group of guys is what came to mind when Wisniewski was writing the lyrics. She gets inspiration from relationship situations and friendships because they’re relatable, and they’re the most emotional. 

“It’s not hard to write a poem about love or something going wrong if you’re angry in a relationship,” Wisniewski said. 

When writing, most of Wisniewski’s inspiration comes from groups from the 70’s and 80’s. She said she was going for something more mature and wasn’t so “teeny bopper girl.” 

“It’s my first time really doing this for serious people to hear and with a band of guys, so I just wanted it to fit in with the identity of what we have been inspired by these bands from way back,” she said. 

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Boozer said that once Wisniewski is done with the lyrics, he ruins it. By that, he means that he takes a slower song and makes it faster. He said he tries to visualize if the song is something he wants to play in 20 years in a stadium full of people. 

The recording process was fast-paced and a different environment for the group, according to Lamy. The members spent their fall in the studio, completing the final version in November. Since then, they have been “sitting on it” and waiting to put it out.

Each member recorded their parts individually, playing along with something called a “click,” which keeps them in time with the song. Schexnayder was the first to record, leaving the drums to be the baseline of the song. 

From Schexnayder, they built the song by adding Liang, then Lamy, then Boozer and then finally Wisniewski. Even when it was not their day to record, everyone was there to support their bandmates. 

“It was a different experience instead of just banging songs out together and recording in our garage,” Boozer said. 

After everyone’s turn, they made tweaks and sent the finished mix to get improved to radio quality. Schexnayder said when the finished product comes out, it sounds like the high-quality artists audiences are listening to on Spotify. 

Since recording was completed in November, they spent their winter wrapping up their shows for 2023, becoming a LLC and preparing for the release day. 

“It’s a finished, nice, pretty polished diamond that we’re just waiting to release to the world,” Wisniewski said.