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way through a song or an idea and
then have nobody to bounce an idea
off of and then so many ideas get lost.
In an environment like this someone
can pick up where somebody left off so
it’s so collaborative.
I was also curious about your art, the
album cover for EP Lucid Dreams,
it’s almost psychedelic. Can you tell
me where some of that imagery came
from?
Yeah one of my friends gave me the
art, but we kind of wanted him to do
something that reminded me of some
of the album cover that you could
have in a poster and blow up and it
would be exciting look at like on a
wall in a kid’s room, like back in the
day the album cover from Dookie
by Green Day, I remember having
a poster of it and I never got tired
of looking at it, every time I looked
at it I would find something new.
That’s kind of what we wanted and
I think he did a great job.
Yeah, it is interesting, lots of
different things going on in there for
sure. The first single Kings, solid,
incredible video that came along
with it, can you give me some of the
background to the piece and why did
you chose to put that one out there?
I think that song has a few things, it
has a cool edge to it and it also has
like a sense of urgency, it sounds like
something big is about to happen is
the feeling in the song and I think it’s
sort of cool watching people make it
their own. There was a dance team
in Russia that did a whole contest and
there’s somebody else that’s covering it
at a talent show and it’s in the arena for
hockey, the Bruins of Boston. It’s cool
to see, it’s all about people that make it
their own, it still has this energy. I don’t Is Atkinson also the one who did your
know there’s something that song that
has that pay attention something is
about to happen. So I think it just felt
like a cool first song to put out there.
I also noticed in going through your
website that it spurred some fan art.
What do you believe is inspiring your
fans about this song to that level?
Well, the music video is an animated
video, a lot of people are making art
based off of those animations so I
think that video inspired that. We also
work with this really talented artist,
visual artist named Zack Atkinson and
I think his art that he’s created around
the project has inspired people to
think visually about the project which
is really what we wanted with like
the Gorillaz.
Yeah, they have that anime feel going
for them.
Yeah, totally and we love that mix
of visual art. Hopefully that stuff is
inspiring the fans to think visually to
the music.
album cover?
No Zack did everything else, he did
our logo and the single art. The guy
who did the album is Gilbert Semolara.
You also have “Ego”, it’s absolutely
beautiful and I was reading some of
the information about it on your site
about how it’s a metaphorical murder
scene of a person who’s killed their
own self-destructive thought patterns
by becoming aware of them which,
especially now with that Netflix
Making a Murderer, that just kind of
went hand in hand. Can you tell me
more about the background behind
Ego” and have you watched Making
a Murderer?
Yeah I did, I just finished it actually.
I’m only on the second one and it’s
starting to take off.
You know what’s crazy? My mother
is from the area where all that stuff
happened. She’s the one who told me
about it. She was all shook up watching
it and she’s like you’re not going to
believe this but she really thinks the
guy is innocent. Regardless of whether
he’s innocent or guilty there’s a lot to
take away from that documentary, one
being that if you don’t have money it’s
hard to be innocent.
Any final words for us?
We’re just kind of in this chaotic, we
are definitely procrastinators, we’re
going out on tour in a couple days and
we’re getting everything together right
now. It’s just like that style of total
chaos, running around. I’ll pack about
an hour before we leave on tour and it
will take me a month to unpack that
same suitcase. 