![]() Our most recent tour was with New Found Glory. And we’re still being put into that scene. I’m not saying we don’t like it, but that’s not us anymore and we listen to a lot of different bands. That was what made our band click, that scene… But now we’re all older. We started off as a pop-punk band when we were 17, 18 years old. I’ve seen over the years how publications and other “tastemakers” can pigeon-hole pop-punk and emo bands. New Noise: Mitski Is Your New Indie Rock Life Coach And using it live helps more than anything… A lot of kids come up to us and ask us how we get that sound. I think it made everything sound a lot bigger than it really is. It’ll sustain any note you hit so you can build five chords on top of each other and build a layer underneath the song. We didn’t utilize it a lot then, but on the new record we use it a lot. Is that an effect you’re especially fond of?Īre you talking about the humming throughout the record? The pulsating thing? That’s a pedal (called a Superego) that we bought for our first full length. I really enjoyed the use of echo throughout the album. Sometimes you can feel a physical pain and that’s what that compares to. ![]() Or you could lose your job and your whole life changes. You and your girlfriend might be going through a breakup and at the start of it you might be thinking it doesn’t matter, but then you realize it sucks. “Cutting My Fingers Off” is more of, things will go wrong in your life and at first you’ll think it’s okay. “Take My Head” is about how it could be the best day and you’re surrounded by happy things, but you still want to be pissed off and sit by yourself. No matter how calm everybody tries to present themselves, everyone has that thing in their life they wish they could change. What inspires you to bring those two sides together? But the music strikes me as atmospheric, almost relaxed. Your lyrics can be pretty gruesome, with lines about cutting your brain into hemispheres, or slicing your fingers off. I listened to this band when I was really young.”Īlt In Our Stars Podcast: Interview With the Early November When you’re younger you just listen to what’s put in front of you… When I got older, I was like, “Oh wow. I didn’t realize bands were on tour, or that you could even play in a band. I remember listening to it just because I remember what the artwork looked like. I remember being in, I think, fifth grade at my friend’s house and he had a copy of Through Being Cool on CD. There’s a lot of bands we listened to in high school who shaped who we wanted to be and most of them were not doing it then: Movielife, Lifetime, Jawbreaker, Saves the Day. You’re 22 and you’ve said Saves the Day is a big influence. There’s always an age or time restriction. ![]() That’s another thing that’s put a halt on our scene. But there are no venues that can hold more than 200 people, unless you’re playing a 2,000-cap room. Now there are more bars up the strip of the beach. When we were starting, we would play anywhere we could - a house, the basement of a church. There have been a few hall spaces and nicer restaurants that hosted bands. When we started off, we were playing at a skate park.
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