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0:03Library voices welcome Carl Michael. Thank you for doing this. You were just right your set list here. Yep What what is on the set list for tonight? You always open with the same song. How do you guys do the set list? I'll try to find one that works. Yeah How many are you touring for it now is eight or ten eight people is it now eight like eight eight mate? How come? Well the one the leek guitar player he is going to get his doctorate in saving That's a good thing. Okay. All right, and then the other Lady we just kind of split it up. Say I don't have to eat. So what what are all the instruments now? There's still a cacophony of everything. Yeah, there's two guitars saxophone

0:51100 keyboards wheel Yeah, we're a Consulating the keywords now. Yeah, everyone's got to learn piano The new record denim on denim out in like a month in a little bit now Very excited for it. Yeah, it's like it's your first record is it not? Yeah, it's amazing Yeah, well, there's been a lot of building for you guys with just an EP. It's fantastic. I think we've written it as much as So we were really excited to actually have a proper It started to fill up with their relationship. You just can't quit get out of just drag away too long Time to move on I think yeah What what can people expect from this EP? What are the themes or the record rather? What are the themes what are what's coming out? I think

1:39largely sort of the extension of the EP I mean we sort of Those were the first six songs we ever wrote I think we sort of stumbled upon a handful of things that didn't really get the chance to flesh out maybe and so sort of revisit a lot of is sort of the same kind of like You know here your local hangout songs and your heartbreak and your lost riffs pop culture some of our favorite writers and musicians I saw 2012 as one of those Part of like this 2012 and there's a End times with the physical track that was just a little bit tongue-cheat. Yeah. Well, it could be realistic if that's what ends up happening Let's hope not I was listening to single drinking games today and it's funny you talk about memory and melody and the first one

2:30I heard this before somewhere and it's kind of ironic about that But that's what you want you want people to hear it for the first time like yeah, I know that song Yeah, that's a weird thing like kind of familiar melody. Yeah I mean rock and roll music has been 50 years Yeah, so there's so much recycling that goes on with you know There's only so many you know notes and scales and whatnot I mean as it is a bad thing to you absolutely not like I mean we play pop music So you want music to be accessible? But there's something about hearing a song for the first time and knowing it's the first time you've heard of it It still seems familiar in a certain way. I think as writers of pop music That's something you kind of strive for to hit the sweet spots Listen to something it really got me thinking about melody and memory and I'm wondering for you guys What are those songs that bring back your earliest memories of music? What a year what got you into music what records?

3:20That's funny. I've just been going through this like stage where I'm just like rediscovering I think the transformers of the movie the animated 1986. Oh really? It's like very like dream theater crazy keyboard like you know, Cynthia kind of music is what I'm Stan Bush of the first songs I could really remember like hearing that in my uncle CJ also sang country porno music So country porno music. Yeah, it was like a sub-genre in the 80s He's gonna be like her with it Willie Nelson stuff. I guess so All right, they'd like hang out down there and he would just write dirty country songs. That's awesome Yeah, so those are the first music I can really Remember listening to and it's been funny. I've been listening to a lot of that transformer soundtrack That has any

4:07About you Michael First of all comes with everyone's the Beach boy is sort of in there Sad decline And so I mean there's always something that's tied to and then my father was always a big music fan So I remember him sitting me down with like the white elbow Like when I was way too young to kind of process everything was happening him explain to me you know, I mean like focus this sounds coming in backwards and all these sorts of things that like Didn't really sink in until we started this band we started trying to you know incorporate all those things that we do about from all the sense to the sort of texture and light layer effects that Yeah, I think I like yet Mike Hill go and show me the music is dad show him like you know, dr. Hook and stuff like that I had a similar experience. I had a teacher and you know, it's pretty young who would show me certain Beatles records or Pink Floyd

4:54And she would get me to focus on different like aspects of the music You mentioned the Beach Boys and I haven't heard the record yet Giving a very tightly wrapped. I thought I'd get a little advanced, but that's okay I mean I saw there was a Dennis Wilson reference in there So who comes up with these who's writing the songs is it a collaborative effort or how does that work? It starts with me and Mike as we've been collaborating for a long time So Mike we both kind of eyes kind of start with a musical melody idea We collaborate on that on the music and Mike does pretty much all the lyrics Alright, it's the driving force. So what is the Dennis Wilson? I want to talk about the song club right me and math like this what happened was I Had to I was in Boston. I had this vision and I was gonna go well in Wilds and Massachusetts

5:41I was gonna go visit the grave of Charles Piculsi No, sorry, I'm not a Charles Piculsi, but he also shows up he showed up in the record and what happened But this was theirs. I was you know see Cara's grave And it was a really cloudy day in the GPS just sort of got me lost driving in circles for a few hours And so I just abandoned that and then the idea was I was writing the song club right me and math And I just thought since I was in the area might be interesting to check it out And so I just sort of pull like some of these like characters who have like this great sort of like missed that follow them And sometimes maybe I'll live the band a little bit. So that one has like ground parsley to there's a story pal He died and he was out in the desert I'm some sort of drug tripping so they're flying back his body to like have a proper like religious funeral his friends Thought that this was like an outrage and that's not what he wanted us was family once was friends actually stole

6:31His casket before they could fly home and drove it out to the up to the desert and set it to the home fire Beneath the Joshua tree and then they were arrested and it was pulled out of his remains returning to home And so there was that and there's the whole like the same the Dennis Wilson was how he was the only the only Whoever served yeah, and you know He just was like they'd be making records and he would just not even be the student they bring this to do a drummer and stuff and so it's just sort of The sort of like rock and roll miss that exists. Yeah, so let's go right me I'm sort of touches on some of those things. I'm excited to hear it April 13th April 13 You mentioned Boston and it's got me thinking it's a sketch is not really a meat well. Maybe it is a musical It's well, it's not a musical hotspot will say it is for poke is for poke it. Well, okay Good to know next time in the morning

7:18I'm okay October 5th, maybe but if you guys ever thought of you know feeling the I know a lot of community musicians feel the need to go to Toronto or Vancouver No, I mean I Sort of twofold I think I think the most musicians we know of taking that route up sort of Disbandage shortly I've got there sort of a band and ship became home and for men lost a year the career I mean those beneath this is what happens. It's like best your place Mm-hmm. They're from each other from a job. They would go to much more. They've been very well Oh, yeah in Montreal probably you know when I'm 10 that you know, that's the success story to me against the other ones But for us I mean just the cost of living is so affordable and having rehearsal space to the back says to 24 hours a day and I live in the same three walks in the cathedral area Yeah, so even though it's just touring it's just nice thinking you know in two days been bankrupt for two days being Toronto

8:10Not have to commit that month of your life to make those things happen right if you're on one coast or the other and so Definitely on the on the industry and it's a little tough and then sort of frustrated to be to be away from it But it's that gets smaller and smaller all the time. Yeah, and it's just and artistically like I think it would be different if we weren't And we're constantly tuning on something in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver visiting these places So it is nice to like kind of be like get outside of Saskatchewan and feel other scenes and where things are maybe More vibrant in different ways. It kind of is like the festival worlds and some things are things picking up for you You're starting to notice but your crowds on both sides of the country or is it more of a western thing and it's starting to slowly build out He's I mean it's sort of patches patches I mean there's certain centers moving in really well others are a little bit of a struggle

8:58I mean less natural it's sort of you come through any need to play with a few people and they both bring a few people Next time stuff and so it's been pretty It's been definitely like a especially again with just EP like it's been definitely like our wives Massive degree What's the plan for I guess the release and touring on what are you guys up to the summer? Ah we we're doing a string date in April the cold side with release and then a handful of dates around Hopefully some pastful days and stuff here throughout the summer. It's really done the past couple years and it's worked well for us and so Just sort of want that now will definitely Show them the most cities across the country nice anything for the states any plans yet?

9:47It's on the list that sort of we're gonna focus on on getting the record on Canada and following up here kind of build on what we've built on already and then That's sort of the next step I think is just to focus towards the states and year after that