Article from January 99 issue of Alternative Press
THE 25 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 1999

FILTER

WORKING ALBUM TITLE:
TBA

PROJECTED RELEASE DATE:
April 1999, on Reprise


WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG?
Filter mainman Rich Patrick spent most of last year in Chicago building
his own studio and assembling a band. "I wasn't sure who was going to be 
in the band," says Patrick, who will travel to Los Angeles in January to 
mix the new album with Short Bus mixer Ben Grosse. Assisting Patrick on 
the album are longtime Filter members Geno Lenardo (guitar), Frank 
Cavanaugh (bass), and new drummer Steve Gillis, of whom Patrick says, 
"He's been in thousands of bands in Chicago, but has always preferred to 
keep a grassroots interest in music. The reason he liked us was that we 
were a drum-machine band and he could put his personality all over the 
playing."


WHAT'S IT SOUNDS LIKE NOW?
"This record is all about dynamics," says Patrick. "Every song is 
night-and-day different from the others. Conceptually it's the same kind 
of music [as 1995's Short Bus], but it's so much more sick and there's so 
much more attitude in every direction. One minute we have a symphony, and 
the next, it's the hardest punk-rock song you'll ever hear.  My favorite 
song on the record is 'Welcome To The Fold' -it's a 10-minute song with 
three songs in it."
	Patrick says he isn't worried about rescaling the platinum-selling 
heights of Short Bus. "When I was a kid, all my favorite bands reached into 
my heart and touched me," he says. "It's all about that one kid in Idaho 
who's listening to me on his Walkman and whether I've affected him to go 
and do something great." -Jason Pettigrew