“Jed, could you turn it down a little bit?” junior Tyler Tholl said.

Jed Anderson gave Tholl a blank look. He was the drummer after all.

Tholl repeated his request and Anderson played along, twisting an imaginary dial on the drum set away from imaginary 11.

With Anderson’s drums at the proper volume, the members of The Fates proceeded with practice. Their CD release concert is fast approaching, and they needed to prepare.

The CD release concert is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the BAC Gorecki Theater. The free concert will celebrate the release of The Fates’ new album, “Some Day Soon.” The album costs $10 and will be available for purchase at the concert.

The Fates will be preceded by two opening acts.

The first act, The Run, includes seniors Kasey Devine and Lance Radziej with SCSU junior Michael Hynes.

The second act, Ryan “Ruff” Smith is 2006 graduate Ryan Smith of Spencer McGillicutty accompanied by his brother, Dan, on drums.

When the opening acts give way, The Fates plan to play through the whole album and throw in some covers too.

“I just want to play a really tight show in a setting where people can just sit down and enjoy the music,” Tholl said.

Tholl, a music composition major, has been at work on “Some Day Soon” for a year.

“I wrote two of the songs last spring and the rest since August,” Tholl said.

Tholl occasionally combined the project with his studies in his music composition courses.

“Some of the songs were used as assignments,” Tholl said.

Tholl did much of the recording for the album with the equipment he has in his apartment.

“We recorded drum, bass and live strings at Rock House studio,” Tholl said. “And almost everything else was done in my room.”

Tholl wrote the lyrics and composed the music, but 10 musicians contributed to The Fates’ debut album including two violinists and a cellist.

Before The Fates, Tholl played with Fred Savage and the Unbeatables for two years. He also was in a band called Games of May while attending Cathedral High School.

The Fates started as a solo project last spring, but Tholl soon started looking for musicians to join his band.

Tholl knew alumnus Mitchell Johnson from Fred Savage and the Unbeatables, but he wanted a bassist, another guitarist and a drummer.

Tholl asked senior Peter Frey to play guitar for his band. However, Frey said he was a bit hesitant to join. After all, he was already playing with Wagon Wheels.

But Tholl convinced Frey to join and when he did, he brought his band mates from Wagon Wheels, Anderson and senior Danny Vitali, with him.

“Despite the hesitation,” Frey said, “I’m glad I joined.”

With Johnson and three Wagon Wheels, the Fates was formed.

Almost. They still didn’t have a name. And no one had any good ideas.

Finally, they were forced to scrounge something together.

“We needed a name for our first show,” Tholl said. “I found ‘The Fates’ written in a high school notebook with band name ideas.”

It wasn’t exactly a eureka moment.

“The name is really stupid,” Tholl said. “It’s terrible.”

Still, the band is making the most of it. They enjoy finding new ways to pronounce their name, encouraging people to call them the “fatties.”

After its CD release concert, the band plans to continue playing shows. But they will have to do so without Frey, as he’s leaving the day after the show for a study abroad trip to South Africa.

For the time being, the group is working to tighten up its songs.

Tholl gave his band mates direction during practice, telling Vitali when to come in on the song “I See” and asking Anderson to add clicks and Johnson to add a distorted guitar lick.

They ran through the song and Tholl seemed satisified.

“These are the best musicians that I’ve played with,” Tholl said.