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Here at Impact 89FM, our staff has the opportunity to interview a lot of bands, artists and other musicians. We're excited to be highlighting those conversations and exclusive live performances.
Everyone, this is WDVM from Southby. I have here with me, we have Knife Play, and I'll go ahead and get straight into the interview. First question I have is something that y'all get asked, I imagine, and close to every interview, but I'd like to change it a little. Y'all have been surrounded in Philly and Pennsylvania at large with Pittsburgh, and with a lot of really cool Dream Pop and shoegaze oriented artists. Like, they're gutting a body of water who's playing currently, I guess, like 30 feet behind us.
Speaker 1:Hotline TNT, Country Western, and, many others. I don't I have a whole list of them. We got full body too. We have Spirit of the Beehive, Lou Smiley. What are some other acts that aren't usually in those, like, Philly shoegaze articles or primers, that pop up online that y'all think should be getting some more attention?
Speaker 1:And it could be outside of, like, shoegaze, dream pop related genres as well. Maybe just peers of yours that you think aren't included in those little, primers and articles. Really, anyone can answer.
Speaker 2:You wanna each say 1 or 2 for you? So my 2 would be Euphoria Again and Elvis Depressley.
Speaker 1:And could you all say maybe your name after you
Speaker 2:And my name's TJ.
Speaker 3:My name is Joey, and the one band that I would say is Pale Shade. My name's Johnny. I would say Youngsham and Halloween. I'm Max. I would also say Youngsham and Nixie Nixie.
Speaker 1:I'm Johanna, and I would say snoozer.
Speaker 2:I'm Alex, and I'll second snoozer and Nixie Nicks.
Speaker 1:Certainly. Thanks a bunch, y'all. As a quick follow-up, do y'all find classifications of, like, Philly shoegaze that come with the comparisons that people always put, Tagaba and Hotline TNT, like, limiting or misguided? Or I guess, like, a a more specific question is, I guess, like, are there any influences in that that you think people will then miss because they use that? Okay.
Speaker 2:I would say whatever, someone needs as their way of getting connected to the music is fine with me. And, you know, all our albums are gonna sound a little different from each other and from everyone else. So, you know, if if that's the aspects of what they find that draws them to it, you know, it's there, and that's that's that's good. Yeah. Anyone else have any words on
Speaker 3:that? No. That's cool. That's good. Cool.
Speaker 1:Thanks y'all. Gonna throw up another shoegaze question here. Includes instruments outside, some typical chew shoegaze instruments in the tracks. Like, we have cellos, violin, saxophone. I really like the saxophone.
Speaker 1:Are there any other instruments or, like, sonic techniques that y'all would like to add or experiment with or maybe you're doing now or maybe sometime in the future? Anything you have on your mind?
Speaker 2:I think primarily just like moving towards a more organic sound that can be serving, like, songs that are more lyrically focused, as opposed to, like, as much noise and distortion. But, you know, it's, really just reacting to whatever I'm into at the moment or whatever. Styles of music are giving me the feeling that I want for music. Anyone wanna add to that?
Speaker 3:Yeah. I would say also, like, I think in the past, we've had, like, a ton of textures and layers, kinda maximalist. Like, but I think we're all focused on having kind of slightly more intentional arrangements, not necessarily sparser, but, like, each element has, like, one job and kind of holds more weight so that we don't have to layer so many things on top. Yeah.
Speaker 1:For sure. Thanks y'all. I only have a couple more questions for y'all. This next one is, what are some other things that inspire y'all songs and creative processes besides, like, other music? Any other forms of art or just like general interactions that you go through that you find inspire your work that aren't like other bands songs music?
Speaker 2:I think for most of us, music is like therapeutic coping mechanism primarily. So it's informed by life and, but anytime I consume any piece of art whether it's film or book or anything, you know, that moves me, a lot of times I will get a song out of that emotional experience.
Speaker 3:Something similar, like, in terms of other media, I feel like move Johnny and I were talking recently about, like, we like movie or we like music that, like, feels cinematic and kind of make takes you to a certain place, like movie soundtrack kind of music or music that would be appropriate for that. So I feel like movies Yeah. I would agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's what I would say too.
Speaker 3:Music. Yeah. Movies in general. Just like movies. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that's why, like, I guess, since we're all into that, you know, it kinda makes sense that our songs have these, like, builds into these like intense moments because like that's how film works too.
Speaker 1:Any particular movies of note?
Speaker 2:I love Deer Hunter, Magnolia, Happiness. I mean, those are like my top 3 that I always say. But like, sometimes it'll be a movie I'll see once and I might not even remember it right now. But it might have given me an emotional experience that I wrote a song immediately after it.
Speaker 3:So Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely. Yeah. Of course. And this last one, it's changing gears a bit. This is about South by at large and the festival.
Speaker 1:I guess, more specifically, what do you think they could do more properly to support artists? But also, like, how has your experience been at large?
Speaker 2:It's been a lot of fun, but also very stressful because sometimes it's hard for us to play really DIY places or really short sets because our songs are long. So, like, a 20 or 30 minute set for us is just, like, 3 or 4 songs. And we have a lot of you know, we have 6 members, a lot of stuff. So it can be kind of, like, frustrating at times, but every show we played has been really fun, and this is all of our first time. So, you know, I don't really wanna harp on the negatives.
Speaker 2:Like, we're we're real we're very lucky for the shows we've gotten and everything. So
Speaker 1:for sure. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. That's pretty much all I have. I really appreciate again Spending, like, 10, 15 minutes with us.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, I hope you all have a great rest of your stop by, and you get back all safe and alright.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Appreciate it