How do ideas usually surface for you? Do you write your music with ideas in mind, or does something creative happen when you stop trying too hard?
I think the three of us have really different ways to deal with our creative practices. Usually the embryo of a piece starts with a simple idea but will be the focus of a piece. Then we improvise on it all together without trying too hard and magic happens.
When you’re writing or jamming, what tells you “this is worth holding onto” versus something that can just live in that moment?
We record pretty much everything that the three of us do. There’s always our phone recording what we’re doing and we just listen to everything while doing normal chores, driving and etc… What grips us tends to make it into a finished song.
You were championed early on by John Dwyer of Osees, which brought a lot of new ears to your music. How did that experience feel from inside the band at the time, and did that recognition change anything about how you saw yourselves?
It felt amazing to be recognized by him, we couldn’t believe it. But It changed nothing about how we saw ourselves. We still do this for the sake of music, fun, being creative and sharing good.