Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Forest Forgets
Speaker 1: That is the new single from the Forest Forgets that
Speaker 1: it's called with Grace, And we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: these guys the Forest Forgets. I'll bring those mics up.
Speaker 1: Welcome guys, Thank you, thank you, absolutely absolutely so let's
Speaker 1: start with We'll start with you, sir in the corner.
Speaker 1: If you could, uh tell us who you are and
Speaker 1: what you do in the band.
Speaker 2: James and I play the drums in the band.
Speaker 3: Hi, James, and you, I'm Brennan and I played bass
Speaker 3: Brennan yep.
Speaker 1: Oh how do you spell that E R E N A?
Speaker 1: Do people often think that? Like, uh, do people call
Speaker 1: you Brandon? Bye? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I figured out, or I get Brent oh do yeah,
Speaker 2: which is crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 4: And you, sir, and I'm Brandon, not right, I play.
Speaker 1: Guitar, okay, and you Griffin, I apologize. Let me pull
Speaker 1: that mic up a little bit more. You're on the
Speaker 1: you're on the weird mic. Go ahead and talk. Hell O,
Speaker 1: there we go. Now we can hear your dulcin tones. Yes,
Speaker 1: very good, very good. Well, welcome guys. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: now some of you have been on the show before
Speaker 1: because there was a previous band after image, and how
Speaker 1: many of you were in after image? Was it three
Speaker 1: of you? Or yeah?
Speaker 2: It was three of you?
Speaker 1: Okay? And then so out of that came the Forest
Speaker 1: for Guts. Now, how long has the Forest Forgets existed
Speaker 1: since October?
Speaker 2: Okay longer than that, yeah, I guess almost.
Speaker 5: Since October, I believe for November.
Speaker 1: So this is pretty new and for people watching online
Speaker 1: of course, uh, you know, we'll we'll take a picture afterward.
Speaker 1: But you guys brought me a copy of the new
Speaker 1: the new EP, so very nice of wind and willow
Speaker 1: and so well, let's start with the obvious questions. So
Speaker 1: where does the name come from the Forest Forgets?
Speaker 5: It's I think it was based off of like where
Speaker 5: we're from is a state we wanted, like a nature theme, Yeah,
Speaker 5: like being in New Hampshire, the White Mountains, the forest
Speaker 5: and everything around us.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think kind of an interesting thing about bands is
Speaker 5: like regionality and with that comes like sound and expectations.
Speaker 5: So you think about California, there's like a sound, right Ritschfield,
Speaker 5: there's a sound. You think about you know, Boston there's
Speaker 5: like a punk scene as a sound. You think in
Speaker 5: New Hampshire. I think it's very vague, but I think
Speaker 5: there's a lot to tap into, especially for like the
Speaker 5: genre that we're trying to do, like a more slower,
Speaker 5: ambient post metal sound. So it came from that, like
Speaker 5: having that nature theme but the forest forgets itself. James
Speaker 5: came up with that. It's from a saying do you
Speaker 5: remember the same.
Speaker 2: The saying is the acts forgets, but the tree remembers.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's just kind of it was more of
Speaker 5: a statement about like I don't know, passage of time,
Speaker 5: I guess, and it's kind of like a trope in
Speaker 5: media and like post apocalyptic or like where humanity's gone,
Speaker 5: like nature kind of overtakes human construction, like cities become
Speaker 5: forests again after a long time. Okay, do what you
Speaker 5: can while you're here, but in the end, eventually everything
Speaker 5: kind of goes back to where it came.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. No, I like that.
Speaker 1: And I noticed too with the imagery looking at pictures
Speaker 1: of you guys online and such, it's you really kind
Speaker 1: of bring that theme, the forest theme, and everything everything's
Speaker 1: kind of dark, you know, like it's like it's actually
Speaker 1: hard and it's not a complaint. It's a. It's a
Speaker 1: cool thing, but it's it's hard to find a picture
Speaker 1: of you guys. Maybe maybe there as a band, Maybe
Speaker 1: there are some that I just didn't see where it's
Speaker 1: like bright and you know, you can clearly see everybody.
Speaker 1: It's like you kind of like you've kind of done
Speaker 1: this mysterious thing that I think is cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah. A lot of that was Victoria Comerford, her hit,
Speaker 5: Brandon's girlfriend. Okay, there's a lot of favors for us
Speaker 5: coming out doing photography.
Speaker 4: Oh, very cool photography.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, pretty much everything we posted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that gonna be the theme going for? Like
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna stick with that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Or or maybe it'll evolve over time or I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like I said, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: cool thing, a little little bit of mystery, and.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it'll have its own Yeah, things go on.
Speaker 4: But I think that's kind of the the gist of
Speaker 4: the vibe we're going for.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I like the I
Speaker 1: like the mistique of it. Now the songs from After Image,
Speaker 1: have any of those carried over into the forest Forgets
Speaker 1: or is this all new or what's what's been your
Speaker 1: approach as far as.
Speaker 4: That, Uh, it's it's all new stuff. We wanted to
Speaker 4: just do something like kind of like from scratch. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a whole new sound and interpretation of like instruments and
Speaker 4: what we can do with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think the biggest thing with that is
Speaker 4: we've changed the tunings. I think we mostly playing like
Speaker 4: drop c now oh okayet of like standard tuning. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a lot lower and heavier. Yeah aggressive, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. And Jenny was commenting to how
Speaker 1: much she loves your guitar playing, and it's got a
Speaker 1: very distinctive kind of kind of sound and vibe to.
Speaker 4: Which is really cool. It's like one of my favorite
Speaker 4: comments compliments.
Speaker 1: Very nice. And you've got a excuse, I promise, I'm
Speaker 1: not sick. I was sick, but I've got that lingering,
Speaker 1: you know, you get that lingering. Cough. It sucks. So
Speaker 1: the video now, tell us about the video for with Grace,
Speaker 1: because that's that's pretty it's kind of kind of heavy.
Speaker 1: It's it's got a got a heavy, heavy theme to it.
Speaker 1: That was kind of griffin really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. It was reactionary to what was
Speaker 5: going on with my grandparents passing away. Oh okay, Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I wanted to kind of create like an external
Speaker 5: expression of that weird sense of grief you get when
Speaker 5: you watch two loved ones kind of fall apart in
Speaker 5: front of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it felt really cathartic to do.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and from what I've been told, I think it
Speaker 5: articulates and translates very well for people that watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I agree, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just felt like, honestly, like kind of lightning
Speaker 5: in the bottle. Like how it all came out, it
Speaker 5: was very It was all gorilla filmmaking. Yeah, Like Dylan
Speaker 5: Williams came out and we have a friend that owns
Speaker 5: an island, so he just came out on a boat
Speaker 5: and like filmed filmed me just up as an old man,
Speaker 5: and he just pieced it together.
Speaker 1: And yeah, how long did it take? Was that all
Speaker 1: done in one day or because there's a lot to.
Speaker 5: It, that was two days of shooting. The first day
Speaker 5: was like twelve hours and the second day was an
Speaker 5: hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was. It was a pretty daunting task that
Speaker 5: first day. A lot of coordination, especially with like the
Speaker 5: makeup and like I had to shave my face yeap.
Speaker 5: Victoria Comerford also did the makeup for my face as well.
Speaker 5: Excellent ageify me and make it be more believable, right,
Speaker 5: I think it workedsu. I've had a couple of people
Speaker 5: ask me the like, is that you are you the
Speaker 5: old man?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It looks so different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I wasn't sure really watching it. I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: I thought. I mean, I thought so, but I wasn't sure.
Speaker 4: That's awesome yeah either, yeah me neither. I wasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now that was really well done. Is that what
Speaker 1: the song is about too?
Speaker 5: One of the interpretations, Yeah, I know. It's it's hard
Speaker 5: because like my mom had her when I showed her,
Speaker 5: she had a very specific interpretation of it, and I
Speaker 5: kind of felt like I didn't want to like take
Speaker 5: that away from her by getting for my version of it.
Speaker 5: But for me, that song was written to my fiance.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a love song, okay, okay about her
Speaker 5: being really tough on herself.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I wanted to.
Speaker 5: Give her a little love letter and say stop it.
Speaker 5: Life's going to be okay, right right.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, No, that's cool, and that's that's The thing
Speaker 1: too about music is you know, everybody can kind of
Speaker 1: take it and interpret it however they want. And it's
Speaker 1: I've always thought it's interesting, you know, for me for
Speaker 1: and I don't know, Jenny might be able to relate
Speaker 1: to this too, as as gen xers. We grew up
Speaker 1: in a time where a lot of the music that
Speaker 1: was popular there was no room for interpretation. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, my my all time favorite band is Kiss.
Speaker 1: But when you listen to a Kiss song, there's no
Speaker 1: misunderstanding what what they're what their dog about, you know,
Speaker 1: but there are there are a couple of exceptions to that.
Speaker 1: But but generally, you know, there's no misunderstanding. But but
Speaker 1: I remember really finding it fascinating in the nineties when
Speaker 1: the grunge era started that, you know, and a lot
Speaker 1: of these bands like Pearl Jam for example, it's like
Speaker 1: you you know, you listen to the lyrics and it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: I just remember having conversations with friends about you know, well,
Speaker 1: I think the song means this or this is what
Speaker 1: it means to me, and different people bringing different interpretations
Speaker 1: to it. And and ever since then, I've always been
Speaker 1: fascinated by the way that yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: any if any of you have ever experienced this, but
Speaker 1: if you ever, you you uh, listen to a song,
Speaker 1: you hear the lyrics or maybe you look up the
Speaker 1: lyrics and they they mean something to you, and then
Speaker 1: you you read an interview with whoever wrote the song
Speaker 1: and they say it means something completely different than what
Speaker 1: your interpretation was, and then there's that little part of
Speaker 1: you that goes, oh, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: in the end, it doesn't matter because it's art and
Speaker 1: it's subjective and it means to you whatever it means
Speaker 1: to you. But but I've experienced that too, that feeling
Speaker 1: of oh it means that I thought it meant this
Speaker 1: other thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't kind of take away like the engagement for
Speaker 5: the listener. Yeah, like my personal experience that gave the
Speaker 5: song that weight. It's like you can still apply it,
Speaker 5: but now you know the direct intention, right, so you
Speaker 5: can't invest as much of yourself into.
Speaker 1: It, right, right? Yeah? Exactly exactly? Is that? Are all
Speaker 1: of your songs kind of like that where you can
Speaker 1: you know, sort of interpret them different ways? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's my impression of your music. It's like,
Speaker 1: you can you can really kind of put read into
Speaker 1: it whatever you want to.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I would say I think that's one of
Speaker 2: Griffin's strong points is his lyricism has always been really
Speaker 2: thought provoking. Yeah, and it's not kind of late. It's
Speaker 2: not late on in front of you. You do kind of
Speaker 2: have to give it a couple listens and you know,
Speaker 2: digest it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I think it carries through most of the songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. Now what is the writing, So Griffin,
Speaker 1: do you write all the lyrics or lyrics? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just about I mean he I'm terrible at grammar, Yeah,
Speaker 5: terrible are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So James is like my retroactive editor coming like
Speaker 5: this word doesn't make any sense. It makes sense here, right.
Speaker 5: So it is a collaborative effort. I get, I print
Speaker 5: out all the lyrics and I let them read it
Speaker 5: because I want them to kind of get in that
Speaker 5: space with me I go to record. But it is collaborative.
Speaker 5: I'd say James definitely steps up to the plate a
Speaker 5: lot and kind of like helps me find what I'm
Speaker 5: trying to hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then do the lyrics come first and then
Speaker 1: the music or no, okay, it's all music.
Speaker 5: It's very reactive to the music.
Speaker 1: Okay, that.
Speaker 5: It's not really learned. I guess it's more so just
Speaker 5: habitual over time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it becomes instinctive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, because I feel like writing slam poetry and
Speaker 5: then trying to like that onto a song it can
Speaker 5: be very clunky, So I try to base it around
Speaker 5: the song itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that makes sense. And then so how does
Speaker 1: the music come about? What's the process there?
Speaker 4: There's a couple different ways, I think. For for with Grace,
Speaker 4: it was actually a song that James programmed in was
Speaker 4: it like Ableton and it sounded completely different than what
Speaker 4: it ended as, But he brought that idea to us
Speaker 4: and we took all the parts we liked and then
Speaker 4: kind of added what we could to make it sound
Speaker 4: more like the other stuff we had written. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: I think was it. The other three were pretty much
Speaker 4: just us jamming on with whatever we could come up with, yeah,
Speaker 4: and taking the parts we liked. We what we started
Speaker 4: doing was we record every practice, so we would have
Speaker 4: like a like a couple hour jam session or something,
Speaker 4: and then it was usually Griffin as the ring leader
Speaker 4: and listening back to it and like grabbing little clips
Speaker 4: and timestance and saying I think this would be cool
Speaker 4: with like minute fifty of this jam going into like
Speaker 4: the first minute of like the second jam or whatever,
Speaker 4: and it was just kind of like pieced together that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, such a new band, you got to like learn
Speaker 5: how to engage with each other and interact with each other.
Speaker 5: I think it was very helpful for someone to kind
Speaker 5: of like get that ball rolling, right because we're writing
Speaker 5: new stuff now and it's not like that at all.
Speaker 5: It's very really yeah, it's very like, let's sit in
Speaker 5: the space, let's build this song together. Kyle is no
Speaker 5: like head orchestrator.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now it's all like one hundred percent collaborative. But the EP,
Speaker 5: we were all so new to each other. Yeah, well
Speaker 5: we're also new to the band, right right, Yeah, like that,
Speaker 5: I think it made it easier and more concise for
Speaker 5: one person to kind of like lead the ship regards,
Speaker 5: so James coming in with pretty much with Grace road
Speaker 5: mapped out, it was very helpful And I think I
Speaker 5: kind of did that role too, like the other songs
Speaker 5: just kind of like orchestration stuff. But now it feels
Speaker 5: very collaborative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh cool, cool, very cool. Where do you guys
Speaker 1: record because everything sounds amazing.
Speaker 4: We record over at Blackhart Studios, yes, which I work
Speaker 4: there with Eric, Oh you do, okay, Yeah, and infrequently,
Speaker 4: but yeah, we went there and we did what was
Speaker 4: it like two days for instruments and then like another
Speaker 4: day for vocals. But yeah, I love that. I love
Speaker 4: that space. It feels like it almost feels like a
Speaker 4: home away from home. How much time I've spent there,
Speaker 4: no kidding. The familiarity with everything just made everything super
Speaker 4: easy for me to like engineer and get us going
Speaker 4: as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Eric on the show a number of
Speaker 1: months ago, and it was it was great to finally
Speaker 1: have him on because you know, I kept telling him, dude,
Speaker 1: your name comes up all the time on my show.
Speaker 1: We got to get you on. So yeah, that was
Speaker 1: so you you work there with him, you, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Usually what ends up happening is if he's busy doing something,
Speaker 4: I'll come in and I'll do like the recording for
Speaker 4: the most part, okay, the stuff that he'll end up
Speaker 4: mixing and mastering. But oh, there's been a couple of
Speaker 4: projects I've done mastering and mixing on for them, like
Speaker 4: Dead Harrison.
Speaker 1: I think we Yeah, we were talking about that off
Speaker 1: are Yeah, our friend's Dead Harrison, Yeah, which they were.
Speaker 4: They were a lot of fun to uh to work with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they're great. Yeah, I've known them forever and
Speaker 1: yeah we often play there while They've been on the
Speaker 1: show a bunch of times, and of course and they're
Speaker 1: also a part of uh, you know, the Midnight Creatives
Speaker 1: Collective and Terminus Underground in Nashua. And yeah, I love
Speaker 1: that uh that song Terror Grinder, Yeah, I love that song.
Speaker 4: That one and Monolith Florid. I think that's my favorite
Speaker 4: off of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, those are those are great. Those are great.
Speaker 7: I was lucky enough to have my paintings on display
Speaker 7: there last month and there's a cool video of them.
Speaker 7: It was all of my darkest paintings and this is
Speaker 7: cool video with Dead Harrison playing in the background because
Speaker 7: they're their practice room was right on the other side
Speaker 7: of the wall.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we should, Uh let's play another studio track
Speaker 1: from the new release, but I will uh, I'll let
Speaker 1: you guys pick what should we where should we go next?
Speaker 4: Brendan, you pick probably peel Back, Feel Back, Okay.
Speaker 1: And uh, why why do you. Uh, why do you
Speaker 1: choose this one? Is there any any particular reason or
Speaker 1: or is there a story about the song we should.
Speaker 3: Know or it's it's my personal favorite. But apart from that,
Speaker 3: it's just the first track.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: It was like it was between that and with Grace
Speaker 4: for a single.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were, we were defeating it for a long time.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh excuse me, I apologize for my voice.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So I'll hurry up and get to the
Speaker 1: track so I can clear my throat. Here we go.
Speaker 4: This is peeled.
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Speaker 8: I mean such resting and my stay.
Speaker 6: I think its answers I need to.
Speaker 9: Or fading out turning you ser so she called ROMs not.
Speaker 10: This was.
Speaker 11: Cass from you said.
Speaker 8: All the same.
Speaker 6: Said jo up, so my sorry, I'm it last for nothing, your.
Speaker 10: Right and you're trying cannot or contectment.
Speaker 6: For your h my pride.
Speaker 8: But ever those donors still laughs, and I say, no,
Speaker 8: that's worth the.
Speaker 6: Great not to day.
Speaker 1: Wherebout just stay where thout.
Speaker 12: Just stay for those rounds? Sures you are jermy sick.
Speaker 8: Ji sigar.
Speaker 6: Joy secret wou.
Speaker 1: Oh that is so good. That is peel back the
Speaker 1: band is the Forest Forgets And we have The Forest
Speaker 1: Forgets here with us live in studio this morning, and
Speaker 1: what a great track. And yeah, that's a perfect opener
Speaker 1: for the EP. That is absolutely fantastic. So I can see, uh,
Speaker 1: I can see why you guys went with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it grabs you right away.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that is so good. And that uh
Speaker 1: that solo at the end, man, it's really really good,
Speaker 1: really good. If you are dis joining us, of course,
Speaker 1: we do have The Forest Forgets here with us live
Speaker 1: in studio. And now do you guys plan to are
Speaker 1: you going to be recording more soon or are you
Speaker 1: just kind of I mean, obviously this has been out
Speaker 1: for a relatively short time, right the the new EP.
Speaker 5: Well, the first single dropped Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh so very new.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then the EP actually fully releases next Friday. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's like a little teaser for everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh very good.
Speaker 7: Is this a world premiere on radio?
Speaker 1: Yes, very good. Week, We do love, We do Love
Speaker 1: The world radio premieres here on the show. So that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Are you guys already writing stuff, because you strike me
Speaker 1: as you probably write a lot. I'm guessing you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of tunes. Yeah, we have a lot of like,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of.
Speaker 4: Getting longer, yeah, right, less and less digestible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have like sixteen minutes worth of music, but
Speaker 5: it's two songs.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 5: In terms of like going back to record, I think
Speaker 5: we're probably not going to go back for a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like a year, eight months. I'm actually just talking to
Speaker 5: the guys about it in the group chat yesterday. I
Speaker 5: feel like an EP has like eight on's worth of
Speaker 5: legs until people like Okay, So our main goal right
Speaker 5: now is to play out, start playing some shows, yea,
Speaker 5: develop a live set, get in that space consistently. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we can once we start.
Speaker 2: What now that we can show people what we're playing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now that we people know what we sound like,
Speaker 5: right right, demos on band camp Yeah, But for the
Speaker 5: newer material that we are working on, I definitely want
Speaker 5: to approach it from a live setting with Brandon's mixing.
Speaker 5: The whole goal was like live, Yeah, this is how
Speaker 5: we sound live.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you guys haven't played out yet or we've
Speaker 1: played what three shows too? Okay? So we've done three.
Speaker 5: Shows, yeah, three shows in nine months. Okay, it's been
Speaker 5: pretty sparse, but nobody knows what we sound like.
Speaker 1: Right, right exactly? Yeah, yeah, so that, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: all new. And what went into the decision to do
Speaker 1: an EP because you know a lot of the guests
Speaker 1: that we have on the show, they approach it different ways.
Speaker 1: You know, you can do an EP, you can do
Speaker 1: a full album, you can do some people now they
Speaker 1: just release a series of singles that eventually become an album.
Speaker 1: What what went into that decision to do an EP.
Speaker 3: I think it was just like we wanted to get
Speaker 3: stuff out quickly, Yeah, and we didn't want to have
Speaker 3: eight or ten tracks to put on an album, right,
Speaker 3: and we didn't want to have as little as a single. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because we had a lot of stuff working. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that had a consistent sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the songs together work well. You know, I can
Speaker 1: see why you would want to put them together instead
Speaker 1: of just putting them out of singles necessarily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very consistent project, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, No, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Do you have another video that you're working on or
Speaker 1: I mean, I know this one again. I know with
Speaker 1: Grace Jeff came out, but no.
Speaker 5: Las one was a tour de force yeah, on all fronts. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I felt like for an EP, like here's a
Speaker 5: nine minute short film that you know, I was talking
Speaker 5: to the guys the other day about maybe doing something
Speaker 5: a little bit smaller, a little bit smaller in scale
Speaker 5: for like another single, right, but as of right now,
Speaker 5: it's just with Grace. We kind of felt like that
Speaker 5: was like a statement piece. Come out with a bang. Yeah,
Speaker 5: here's a concept, it's all cohesive, it all ties in
Speaker 5: YEP and again legs like, it's got four songs. Here's
Speaker 5: a nine minute video. So if I were to do another,
Speaker 5: that'd be like fifteen minutes for a twenty five minute EP. Right,
Speaker 5: it's a little crazy. But we do have more like
Speaker 5: behind the more content about how we made the EP
Speaker 5: and like behind the scenes on the video itself, because
Speaker 5: we still want to like give people something to engage with.
Speaker 5: But in terms of like artistic expressions through the form
Speaker 5: of a music video, I think that's probably going to
Speaker 5: be it for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think now the direction is just let's play live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. And then what was
Speaker 1: the Oh, so, what what do you have? Like, do
Speaker 1: you have shows coming up?
Speaker 5: Do you have do you have some shows booked or
Speaker 5: if we have two shows booked in December, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 5: I think you know more details about those than I do.
Speaker 4: All I know is that they're more than likely happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, nothing to announce.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a single dropping. We've had a lot of people
Speaker 5: reach out and they're like, hey, play a show. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of naturally occurring.
Speaker 1: No, I'm curious, curious to see you guys live big time,
Speaker 1: me too. Absolutely, we should also talk about too, So
Speaker 1: I don't know they will necessarily play it. But there
Speaker 1: was a track run here that's that is different than
Speaker 1: the others. Yeah, catching the big Fish in the vast
Speaker 1: purple Sea. That's kind of an ambient. There's no lyrics
Speaker 1: of that, correct from what I.
Speaker 4: Call it's it's all all guitar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, it's all guitar.
Speaker 4: Sound sources that I found and recorded. I think it's
Speaker 4: my favorite sound that I put in there is my
Speaker 4: drag machine. Oh really, like my drag machine in my apartment.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had like a like it was like a pair
Speaker 4: of pants that and coins in there, and it was
Speaker 4: just making this funny sound. Yeah, And I recorded it
Speaker 4: one day and then I was mixing it, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I think that'd be fun to throw in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Nice, but yeah, that's just ambient guitar.
Speaker 10: It was.
Speaker 4: It was something I think Griffin had me do for
Speaker 4: our first video.
Speaker 5: At first, like we do a YouTube series called Broots Remain.
Speaker 5: It's just kind of like about us as a band. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's all self produced. It's you know, I wouldn't expect
Speaker 5: much from it, but I was like, hey, can you
Speaker 5: just like make this ambient guitar track just so I
Speaker 5: have some space to fill And then and.
Speaker 4: Then I I think I did it at the practice
Speaker 4: space and we all kind of liked like the like
Speaker 4: the vibe of it. And the first show we played,
Speaker 4: we actually we in the middle of this that we
Speaker 4: just stopped and I sat on the ground and just
Speaker 4: played you know, ambient guitar for what like five five minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that's right.
Speaker 13: And then.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I really liked it and I wanted
Speaker 4: to have it on the EP. So when it was
Speaker 4: like almost a complete afterthought in the studio, like we
Speaker 4: were all wrapped up and I was like, wait, I
Speaker 4: got one more thing to do, and it was just
Speaker 4: like one take of improv guitar with layers of reverb.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's one of those songs feeling it as
Speaker 5: opposed to listening to it like live, feeling all that
Speaker 5: running around you, right, Yeah, very transcendental. I guess I
Speaker 5: would say, I don't know if that's the word, James,
Speaker 5: but I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Because I got the I got the name actually from
Speaker 4: it's a quote from the filmmaker David Lynch, the way
Speaker 4: he approaches making films that he'll do transcendental meditation. Oh,
Speaker 4: he thinks of himself fishing for ideas in like a
Speaker 4: large purple ocean.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that about David Lynch, but if you
Speaker 1: told me, I guess a director who approaches it this way,
Speaker 1: I would probably guess it was David Lynch. Yeah, that's interesting,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Well, let's all the time goes so quick.
Speaker 1: Let's I want to make sure we get the rest
Speaker 1: of these and let's listen to disintegrate. Sure, you guys
Speaker 1: were kind enough to provide a radio edit, so appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But no, this is another great track. I really love
Speaker 1: this a lot. If you are just joining us, we
Speaker 1: have the forest Frigets here with us live in studio,
Speaker 1: and here's another track from their new EP. And this
Speaker 1: track is called dist a great check it out.
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Speaker 13: see places with me? We see you what it's like
Speaker 13: to be shot up in a show brown and over
Speaker 13: the center.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm that is disintegrate And the band is The
Speaker 1: Forest Forgets, and we have The Forest Forgets here with
Speaker 1: us alive in studio and uh we're talking off air.
Speaker 1: Uh Griffin, you were saying that song has your favorite scream.
Speaker 5: On the ev in it Ye, that last one at
Speaker 5: the end of the high one. Yeah, it felt very
Speaker 5: Chino Deaftnes kind of. Yeah, those whistle note screams he does. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just satisfying.
Speaker 1: I'm always impressed by that when I hear a vocalist
Speaker 1: who can do that. Do you do anything to kind
Speaker 1: of like, do you have to do anything to really
Speaker 1: take care of your throat to pull that off without,
Speaker 1: you know, without damaging your vocal cords? Like like like
Speaker 1: most people if they just said, oh, I'm gonna do that,
Speaker 1: you know, they'd end up, like, you know, harming their throat.
Speaker 5: How do you approach that technique and balance I guess,
Speaker 5: like balance of pressure and diaphragm and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just don't.
Speaker 5: You don't push that hard to get those sounds. Yea,
Speaker 5: it's more the technique and Mike the mic does a
Speaker 5: lot of the work. If I were to do that
Speaker 5: in the room, it would sound pretty different. Yeah, compression
Speaker 5: and everything. I think that's a big thing when, like,
Speaker 5: especially when I was first starting out, it was like,
Speaker 5: how do I get this to sound like that? Well,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of tricks that go into it, right,
Speaker 5: that big bands can do consistently that you can't really
Speaker 5: do in a basement in Nashua.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you learn to do it correctly, you
Speaker 1: can do it without hurting yourself.
Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, I mean any great technique you do
Speaker 5: something every day, you could have the best technique in
Speaker 5: the world. But like as far as I can tell,
Speaker 5: big bands that have to tour two hundred days out
Speaker 5: of the year, it doesn't really matter how good your
Speaker 5: technique is, because you're gonna get hurt after a while.
Speaker 5: It's gonna wear down.
Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Have you always?
Speaker 1: Has that always been your approach vocally to mix it,
Speaker 1: you know, the singing with the you know, the aggressive
Speaker 1: the screams and all that.
Speaker 5: I'd say, so, yeah, first, starting out, I didn't really
Speaker 5: know how to do anything. Yeah, and then I found
Speaker 5: bands like Tool and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: do that like bark Yell he does yeah. And I
Speaker 5: found Deftones. I'm like, that's cool. Yeah, I'm gonna start
Speaker 5: doing that. And then we've been listening to this band Sumac,
Speaker 5: which is uh, I don't know the band isis the
Speaker 5: band isis yeah right yeah, and Turner he does all
Speaker 5: the the low like false chord guttural stuff. Oh k,
Speaker 5: I'd have been on that kick, just kind of picked
Speaker 5: things I like and see if I can do them
Speaker 5: in my own way, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh there's a song too that which was a
Speaker 1: song we played earlier that James, you do some some
Speaker 1: of the harmony, because I think we talked about that
Speaker 1: off air with Grace. Yeah, oh with Grace. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: you're on that too vocally with the.
Speaker 2: Last chorus, I kind of no, I'm in both yah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, the last one it has that really hidden
Speaker 2: the third harmony in the last chorus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I kind of add some texture to it.
Speaker 1: Is that Is it just on that track? Is that
Speaker 1: the only one where you've got a vocal? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Will you be doing that live too? Like when when
Speaker 1: you guys play that live?
Speaker 4: Will you be?
Speaker 2: We've been feeling it out, uh in the practice space.
Speaker 2: I think we started doing that after we were in
Speaker 2: the studio, just to see how it would be. So
Speaker 2: there's a chance eventually that I might start doing some
Speaker 2: of the harmonies, even the harmonies that Griffin was doing.
Speaker 2: But that's a little touch and go right now. I
Speaker 2: don't know if we're going to end up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it might be tricky to pull off,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's funny to you. Guys were talking about, uh,
Speaker 1: Morgan's storage. You have a practice space there, and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was remembering the I was in some bands that
Speaker 1: had rehearsal space there and the pain of when you're
Speaker 1: trying to do something and you've got a band right
Speaker 1: next door who's very loud. And I was talking with
Speaker 1: I was there actually a couple of weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: went to meet with I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: know the band day to attend, but I was in
Speaker 1: their practice space, and I swear it was so familiar
Speaker 1: that I think it might have been the same room,
Speaker 1: one of the rooms that I had there years ago.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they were talking about that too. How sometimes
Speaker 1: it's such a challenge because there's so many bands in there,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you've got somebody right next door
Speaker 1: to you who's loud or I mean, I know there's
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any you know, if there's
Speaker 1: any recording studios currently in there. I know there has
Speaker 1: been in the past, and I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how they managed to do it, even
Speaker 1: with a lot of soundproofing.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of bands over there right now.
Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if anybody's trying to record anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Uh do you guys,
Speaker 1: I assume you rehearse on a pretty consistent basis because
Speaker 1: your music is you know, it's it's complex, it's not
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like a three chord thing that
Speaker 1: you can just pick up every you know, every few weeks, right,
Speaker 1: you guys must probably every week.
Speaker 5: I would think we for the past eight months we
Speaker 5: were doing three nights a week. Yeah, that's good, just
Speaker 5: to get the ball rolling.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and with the EP out, we're dropping it down
Speaker 5: to two nights a week. Yeah, a long day on
Speaker 5: Sundays and yeah, two and a half hour thing on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, writing day and then like a rehearsing day, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah yeah, because image I would imagine with what
Speaker 1: you're doing, if you take too much time off, it's
Speaker 1: probably hard to really.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, you don't want to lose Yeah, especially
Speaker 3: with the writing process. Yeah yeah, sure, you've got to
Speaker 3: be in that headspace consistently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. You guys do any covers
Speaker 1: or strictly original or when you when you are playing
Speaker 1: out on a regular basis, will you be doing strictly originals?
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 5: Or probably?
Speaker 4: I think strictly originals. We tried playing a couple of
Speaker 4: covers the first couple of practices when we first got together. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I mean that was back in what November? That
Speaker 4: the last time we played a cover songs back in November.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's gonna be all originals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's good. That's good. Before we run
Speaker 1: out of time, because I do want to make sure
Speaker 1: we get this last track. And let's see, we haven't
Speaker 1: played Chemo yet. And I'm curious to ask you too,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna play it with a name like that.
Speaker 1: Is there a story behind this?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Behind the song?
Speaker 5: I read a couple of years ago that like every
Speaker 5: seven years, every cell on your body body has regenerated,
Speaker 5: so you're like not the same person. It's like that
Speaker 5: paradox of like the ship you replace, every board is
Speaker 5: at the same ship. Right, So if you've like been
Speaker 5: through experiences in the past that kind of leave a
Speaker 5: sour taste in your mouth, there's the reassurance that like
Speaker 5: there will be a version of you that hasn't been
Speaker 5: like touched interest.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's so, that's that's what the song is about.
Speaker 5: I'd say effectively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've read that too. Actually, yeah that's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll listen to that in a moment when we
Speaker 1: close out the segment. But uh, the other thing too.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that people know where to
Speaker 1: find you guys online, where's the best place to go,
Speaker 1: how they can keep up with everything that you're doing,
Speaker 1: how they can get the music.
Speaker 10: This is?
Speaker 1: Is this refresh my memory?
Speaker 13: Is this?
Speaker 1: This isn't quite out yet available as a fullyp yet online.
Speaker 5: Not on streaming. No, okay, you pick up physical copies
Speaker 5: at the Music Connection in Manchester.
Speaker 1: Oh excellent.
Speaker 5: And I think we're going to get them over to
Speaker 5: bull Moose eventually because they have a new one and
Speaker 5: I don't remember where they just they closed the one
Speaker 5: and sale and they moved it to somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeah, they just moved right the
Speaker 1: Salomon Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Newberry Comics eventually. Too good. We're gonna talk to them.
Speaker 5: We got to figure that out though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The fully drops on the twenty seventh. That's correct, okay,
Speaker 2: and it'll be available on all the major streaming websites
Speaker 2: we have, be Camp, Spotify, iTunes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I found Deezer by accident. I was googling one.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while I'll just google Matt Conderton
Speaker 1: Unleashed to see if there's anything about the show, like
Speaker 1: if the show is Sometimes the show shows up places
Speaker 1: I don't know about. Yeah, that's literally how I found
Speaker 1: out about Deezer. I googled the show one day, and
Speaker 1: a link to Deezer pops up, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: my show is on Deezer And I had no idea,
Speaker 1: but which is fine. It's great, you know, if somebody
Speaker 1: finds it that way. But yeah, but uh no, it's
Speaker 1: cool too that you're doing physical copies, because you know,
Speaker 1: not everyone does. Although I feel like lately most of
Speaker 1: the guests that we've had on do do physical copies.
Speaker 1: It seems like I feel like, maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: five or six years ago, like there was a space
Speaker 1: a time where a lot of people were just kind
Speaker 1: of like, eh, do we really need to do physical copies?
Speaker 1: Everything's digital now, But I think it kind of came back,
Speaker 1: you know, people still like to have something they can,
Speaker 1: especially with I don't know if you guys have any
Speaker 1: plans to do vinyl in the future, but it seems
Speaker 1: like vinyl now a lot of a lot of our guests.
Speaker 1: It's it's expensive to do it, but they'll do vinyl,
Speaker 1: you know, which is really just for the diehards, because
Speaker 1: I think most people, if they buy vinyl, they probably
Speaker 1: never even open it. They just want to have it
Speaker 1: because if you really like, if you're a big fan
Speaker 1: of that artist, it's cool to have it. But you know,
Speaker 1: to actually have a record player and then open the
Speaker 1: vinyl up and put it on, it's probably not something
Speaker 1: people do, but but it's but it's.
Speaker 4: Cool to have the exception of that oh yeah record vinyl,
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding, yeah, night, just flipping through the oh
Speaker 4: no kidding, different things.
Speaker 1: Oh cool. Cool.
Speaker 4: I'd love to have a vinyl of our stuff, but
Speaker 4: as you said, it's ridiculously expensive. Oh yeah, yeah, maybe
Speaker 4: some day, yeah someday.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You got to sell a lot of them to
Speaker 1: recoup the cost of it, that's for sure. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: uh no, But I think it's cool that you have
Speaker 1: a physical CD and I appreciate you bringing that in absolutely.
Speaker 1: We Actually we do have a CD player here. I
Speaker 1: never use it, but I think the only one that
Speaker 1: uses it is Rob as a veto. He does a
Speaker 1: show here on Friday nights at six called Granted State
Speaker 1: of Mind. I don't know if you know Rob. He
Speaker 1: also interviews local artists and but he actually uses the
Speaker 1: CD player. I think I used it once. It does work,
Speaker 1: but but I don't even have one. I don't have
Speaker 1: one at home. Well, right, Jenny, you don't have anything
Speaker 1: to play. I'm I'm my old Mac that will play CDs.
Speaker 2: That's the one we use.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it's but it's good to have. It's
Speaker 1: good to have. And of course if you have an
Speaker 1: older car too. CD players still still exist in older vehicles,
Speaker 1: but so we will. And of course you guys are
Speaker 1: very easy to find if you google the forest for
Speaker 1: gats with content right right, which is good. Good to
Speaker 1: pick a name that you know you're not going to
Speaker 1: be fighting anybody over. No, but I really appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys coming in. We'll definitely have to do this again
Speaker 1: in the future, and thank you all four of you.
Speaker 1: And we will close out the segment with this another
Speaker 1: great track and the uh oh I should mention too
Speaker 1: the name of the EP of Wind and Willow. Any
Speaker 1: particular meaning of the name of the EP, by the way, No.
Speaker 5: It just felt like a cool visual. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: the sound of music when she's like standing in the
Speaker 5: grass and it's like a noll blowing.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess in my mind it's where I wanted
Speaker 5: my grandparents to go.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, okay, okay, oh very nice. All right, so
Speaker 1: we will close with this track. Guys, thank you again
Speaker 1: and thank you very much. Here it is The Forest
Speaker 1: Forgets Chema.
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