I hadn’t listened to that song in years but it’s in me, you know? You start working on something and it just happens. But at the same time, we covered an R.E.M. Absolutely, we’re definitely always listening to new music, we feel like that it’s important to. It’s so weird because it both does and it doesn’t. M: Are you listening to much contemporary dance music? To what extent does what you’re listening to play into the writing process?

The minimal thing, too, is just something you’re always working towards as an artist, paring it down to the nugget, the actual idea, so there was a bit of that. And I think that working on the tracks separately, online from each other, definitely contributed to a more minimal sort of thing. Let’s like, absolutely embrace that part as a part of it. So it’s never been about being attached to a sound, it’s always kind of about creating something new and making something new happen.īut all that said, there definitely was a conversation at the beginning when we’d started working on the record, but then the pandemic happened and it was like, Okay, well, this is going to affect the record and let’s use that as a way to make it a different sounding record. It’s supposed to be something new, always. I think it’s also just part of what post-punk is, is that you’re supposed to find something new. We’re working on the next record right now, we’re doing different things right now that sound different than the last record. So by the time we get to the next record, we’re in a different place. Nic Offer : We are conscious of it, but it’s more that we’re constantly on a journey moving forward.

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