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From The Desk Of The Pack A.D.: Briefcases

There’s a relentlessly brooding power and bruised melodicism emanating from the Pack A.D.’s sixth full-length, Positive Thinking (Cadence), that belies the album’s cheery self-help title. Drummer Maya Miller admits that she and guitarist Becky Black intended a certain irony in the LP’s nomenclature. “It’s facetiously hopeful, which pretty much sums up our band.” says Miller. The Pack A.D. has always been foundationally blues based, with a detour into poppier territory on Do Not Engage. Over the past few albums, though, the band actively shifted toward psych rock, a major thread in the fabric of Positive Thinking. Miller will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our feature on the band.

Miller: I have a briefcase problem. In elementary school, my first school bag was a Snoopy briefcase. It was blue pinstriped and had a picture of Snoopy carrying his own briefcase. I loved that briefcase. I loved Snoopy, too, but that is a topic for some other day. Let’s just say that my luggage love started at an early age and was always associated with getting some business done. As anyone who truly knows me knows, I’m all about getting business done. Even if it’s just the simple act of keeping a list of every movie I’ve ever seen. That’s business … and a little odd I have been told. Anyway, I am crazy for organizing, but I do it all on paper and with a pen and I have a love/uncontrollable hulk rage relationship with computers. Also, my laptop doesn’t always fit properly in my amazing old-school briefcases. You know what does fit though? All my scrabbly pieces of papers and file folders and pens and books. Long live the ancient act of pen on paper. When the computers turn on us, and they will, I will be expecting them.