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The Felix Culpa

Dustin Currier was born with music in his blood.

At age 12, he received a Squire Stratocaster guitar for Christmas and his fate was sealed.

“It’s one of those things that you grow up with music in you,” Currier said. “Your parents will play records around the house and you really live inside them and you really get it as a kid and you have it or you don’t.”

Currier plays keys and guitar for The Felix Culpa where he essentially gets to live his dream: doing what he loves was people he loves.

Even before the band had a title, the boys in the band were just best friends. When the trio who were The Felix Culpa asked Currier to join the band and make it a quartet, he admits that maybe he wasn’t the greatest musician they could have gotten, but he earned his spot for other reasons.

“In the end, it comes down to who you’re going to work well with,” Currier said. “Any time we’re together, we’re really just four best friends before anything else.”

Translated in Latin, felix culpa means “blessed fault” or “fortunate fall.” They named their band after this phrase in reference to Adam and Eve whose mistake of eating the apple was the first meaningful exercise of free will.

Their music however has its own roots and its own genre that no single word label can capture.

“We’re definitely a lot of times a loud indie rock band and try to focus on songwriting and dynamic,” Currier said. “We’re very derived from personal experience and we put a lot of that into our music. There’s a million genre words I could throw on to it, but in the end we’re a loud rock band.”

Currier describes any good live show as having a certain level of intensity and visual elements that create the energy to feed the crowd.

“When you have that, there's something unspeakable that happens between the crowd and the band that you’ll never experience just listening to a record,” Currier said.

Although that’s the case with any band that puts any sort of emotion into what they do, Currier said, but The Felix Culpa are the type of band that are known for the emotion they put forth on stage.

And this year, the band hopes to be spending as much time on stage as possible. After waiting several years since their last album, the band’s excited to spend the year promoting their new record Sever Your Roots.

“We feel like right now we need to go out and show it off to everybody before going on to anything new,” Currier said.

Their new album has been many years in the works due to both internal and external factors. While they did take their time writing the songs on the album, they also experienced nearly every problem imaginable during the recording process, Currier said, but they wouldn’t ask for it to go any other way.

“In the end I think it benefited the record in a way that for us there’s this timeline,” Currier said. “We recorded it in order and finished each song one by one.”

Check out The Felix Culpa as they bring their new album to the Canopy Club stage on March 15 with Big Science and Sun for $7.