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Your music has been described as Punk. Is that what you are essentially trading the rights to your music
for exposure, marketing, and the ability to reach
consider yourselves?
No way! We’re a rock band, despite playing alongside various people you might not reach independently -
punk, metal, hardcore, and emo bands over the last few years. which more often than not is about budget. Up
A good song is a good song, and good people are good people, and coming artists should focus on developing
regardless of genre; that’s what we try surround ourselves with. their band, audience, and brand as far as they
can independently, so that if the right label
Tell me if you’ve had a “We made it!” moment, and what comes along to shift their careers up a gear, it is
prompted it? If you haven’t, what do you feel “making it” would a no brainer for both parties. It should always be
for a mutual benefit, and you should know what
look like?
There are a million little ones, like hearing yourself on radio, you’re getting in return!
walking on stage in front of a festival crowd, or seeing your
merch on a complete stranger in a tiny out of the way mall in Dissonants is coming out next month. Can
Florida. There are always milestones, but we try to keep it all in you talk a little about the new album? Any
perspective. particular theme to the album or inspiration?
The album is about coexistence of ideas within
ourselves, and of ourselves with the people
How did you come to sign with Rise Records?
We were lucky enough to cross the ears of our managers during around us. There’s a sense of chaos and not
the Ground Dweller recording process, who put the hard yards in belonging in all of us, but too much order
to connect us with a handful of labels. Out of those, Rise seemed sterilizes our idea of self and of harmony. So, it’s
the most suited to the way we wanted to get our music out there, about celebrating and accepting those ‘dissonant
and the relationship developed from there! streaks’ in ourselves and in others.

What do you think is a benefit of signing vs. being independent, You said in a previous interview that the new

and what should up and coming artists look for in a label? album could “make you or break you,” what
A record label is about financing and promoting your music. You did you mean by that? Was this album more

stressful then the others?
A hopeless romantic, self-medicated on reality; Every album is make or break these days with
A misunderstanding is all that anyone can see in me. attention spans being so short. It’s easy to be