welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
talking to American rock band the
Airborne Toxic Event about their music
their inspirations and their friends
I’d like to know how you guys think your
music has changed since your debut
record I think when we started off we we
sort of saw ourselves as a like a art
project as sort of pretending to be a
rock band that was sort of pretending to
be in our project it was sort of
pertaining your rock I mean we had like
a car hood that we played on stage we
all like talked a lot about like what
the sort of dress code of the band was
we had TVs onstage for a lot of it that
would show static and sometimes would
show live feeds of the audience reacting
to the show while it’s going on but then
it’s on the stage and everything was
about sort of crossing a lines between
like what was real and what was this
sort of simulacrum of what was happening
I think now it’s we see ourselves as
just trying to make music as best and
honestly and meaningfully as we can and
I don’t think we think about so much the
details of what the art project is
speaking of the next record which I
believe it’s currently untitled at the
moment can you tell me about what
musical direction you guys are heading
into I think it’s just piggybacking on
one of the closets that I think it did
feel a lot more we’re just trying to not
try to think about too much of what kind
of sound weird you know they’re just
getting to room and then playing
honestly we got back to the way we made
our first record which is Kyle won and
lost itself in a room and wrote about
songs and then we sort of like workshop
them as a band and and play them
together live a lot and they went to the
studio and recorded them you know as
live as you can in modern recording it’s
like going back to just the most basic
thing about songwriting is this song
awesome does it have awesome lyrics are
the melodies awesome does this make me
feel something is a tell a story I want
to tell you I’m a Cal’s part and then
the rest of our parts like how can we
help bring that vision to life and and
sort it out and make it swing yes
everything is 100% liven cheekier king
who produced the record is producing
because it’s not done it’s really clear
about it being live like we’d come in
and like okay cool so here’s the guitar
you’re gonna get a rock track so that
you can react it later it makes it he’s
like no you’re gonna play your guitar
we’re gonna turn on the mics and that’s
gonna beat your sound he’s like we could
spend the whole day trying to get the
sound but that’s the sound and just
decide what you like can you tell me a
bit about who or what has inspired you
either throughout the years or for this
record I tend to write about similar
themes I write about loss I write about
death I write about you know
embarrassing things I write about things
that are somewhat a confessional there’s
a sense of kind of a conspiracy with
your listener that I’m really fond of
but there’s a couple straight-up just
love songs on this record and like like
absolutely no screwing around I mean
they’re a little dark because they’re
sort of placed in the context of
everyone you know dying but listen but
but then that is sort of the nature of
love right
in terms of the music it’s just a really
grand record I mean there’s just stuff
that like when I even when I hear it I’m
like wow we all got together and there’s
this sense of wanting to place in these
songs with an orchestra like on the moon
like there’s huge stuff that happens and
there’s a lot more instrumentation
there’s horns and there’s mandolin and
there’s flutes and there’s all kinds of
different types of keyboards and I think
we’re just trying to not think about
what genre we were or what what you know
whether we’re an indie rock band or a
rock and roll band or essentially a folk
band that makes rock and roll or
whatever the heck it is and just think
about like this sounds good and we want
it to sound big at this moment and this
one we want to sound out in a
celebratory at this one we want to some
kind of pensive and dark
can you talk to me a bit about your
relationship with your friends they’re
also one of the things that we never
really that took us by surprise is when
fans just started showing up with lyrics
tattooed or images from our album album
art tattooed on their arms and other
chests and everything and there’s this
deep sort of almost profound connection
with them that because they’re all these
really tragic lyrics a lot of the time
and I think that they as sad as some of
the songs can be I think they sort of
embrace that feeling of sadness and they
can all kind of come together and people
kind of have met each other we’ve heard
relationships you know people meet at
shows and stuff
thank you so much for your time
talking to American rock band the
Airborne Toxic Event about their music
their inspirations and their friends
I’d like to know how you guys think your
music has changed since your debut
record I think when we started off we we
sort of saw ourselves as a like a art
project as sort of pretending to be a
rock band that was sort of pretending to
be in our project it was sort of
pertaining your rock I mean we had like
a car hood that we played on stage we
all like talked a lot about like what
the sort of dress code of the band was
we had TVs onstage for a lot of it that
would show static and sometimes would
show live feeds of the audience reacting
to the show while it’s going on but then
it’s on the stage and everything was
about sort of crossing a lines between
like what was real and what was this
sort of simulacrum of what was happening
I think now it’s we see ourselves as
just trying to make music as best and
honestly and meaningfully as we can and
I don’t think we think about so much the
details of what the art project is
speaking of the next record which I
believe it’s currently untitled at the
moment can you tell me about what
musical direction you guys are heading
into I think it’s just piggybacking on
one of the closets that I think it did
feel a lot more we’re just trying to not
try to think about too much of what kind
of sound weird you know they’re just
getting to room and then playing
honestly we got back to the way we made
our first record which is Kyle won and
lost itself in a room and wrote about
songs and then we sort of like workshop
them as a band and and play them
together live a lot and they went to the
studio and recorded them you know as
live as you can in modern recording it’s
like going back to just the most basic
thing about songwriting is this song
awesome does it have awesome lyrics are
the melodies awesome does this make me
feel something is a tell a story I want
to tell you I’m a Cal’s part and then
the rest of our parts like how can we
help bring that vision to life and and
sort it out and make it swing yes
everything is 100% liven cheekier king
who produced the record is producing
because it’s not done it’s really clear
about it being live like we’d come in
and like okay cool so here’s the guitar
you’re gonna get a rock track so that
you can react it later it makes it he’s
like no you’re gonna play your guitar
we’re gonna turn on the mics and that’s
gonna beat your sound he’s like we could
spend the whole day trying to get the
sound but that’s the sound and just
decide what you like can you tell me a
bit about who or what has inspired you
either throughout the years or for this
record I tend to write about similar
themes I write about loss I write about
death I write about you know
embarrassing things I write about things
that are somewhat a confessional there’s
a sense of kind of a conspiracy with
your listener that I’m really fond of
but there’s a couple straight-up just
love songs on this record and like like
absolutely no screwing around I mean
they’re a little dark because they’re
sort of placed in the context of
everyone you know dying but listen but
but then that is sort of the nature of
love right
in terms of the music it’s just a really
grand record I mean there’s just stuff
that like when I even when I hear it I’m
like wow we all got together and there’s
this sense of wanting to place in these
songs with an orchestra like on the moon
like there’s huge stuff that happens and
there’s a lot more instrumentation
there’s horns and there’s mandolin and
there’s flutes and there’s all kinds of
different types of keyboards and I think
we’re just trying to not think about
what genre we were or what what you know
whether we’re an indie rock band or a
rock and roll band or essentially a folk
band that makes rock and roll or
whatever the heck it is and just think
about like this sounds good and we want
it to sound big at this moment and this
one we want to sound out in a
celebratory at this one we want to some
kind of pensive and dark
can you talk to me a bit about your
relationship with your friends they’re
also one of the things that we never
really that took us by surprise is when
fans just started showing up with lyrics
tattooed or images from our album album
art tattooed on their arms and other
chests and everything and there’s this
deep sort of almost profound connection
with them that because they’re all these
really tragic lyrics a lot of the time
and I think that they as sad as some of
the songs can be I think they sort of
embrace that feeling of sadness and they
can all kind of come together and people
kind of have met each other we’ve heard
relationships you know people meet at
shows and stuff
thank you so much for your time
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