Priory Keep It Positive With "Weekend"

"Life's a big party and everyone's invited to it, so let's treat each other well and have some fun!"

Positivity is the name of the game with Portland, Oregon's Priory, who can't wait to get their infectious indie-pop debut in the ears of listeners beyond the Pacific Northwest. With the Weekend EP, the follow-up to their 2011 debut, they dove headfirst into new music and made the new songs their top priority. There were no day jobs involved, no distractions—they just needed to get these songs out.

"We wrote it in like, a week and a half, two weeks, and through that course of time, we honed our skills as musicians and even as songwriters together," Priory's Brandon Rush tells Fuse. "We decided after about a year and a half of touring that we wanted to create something that in our mind was blameless, the best thing we could make. That's when we quit our jobs and locked ourselves away in our studio. We scrapped together pennies and got down to my last five dollars in my bank account every month."