Field Dispatch
Temptress | Matt Connarton Unleashed
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Speaker 6: Where's welcome everybody? We have entered our number three new
Speaker 6: Mirrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live
Speaker 6: from the studios of w m n H ninety five
Speaker 6: point three FM Glorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here,
Speaker 6: of course, at the news table, President and accounted for.
Speaker 7: I really love that song.
Speaker 6: I really do. I really do.
Speaker 8: I'm excited to see you guys play live.
Speaker 6: I really am. So We've got with us a live
Speaker 6: in studio. The band Temptress is here and that is
Speaker 6: their song that is called Wish and Temptress is going
Speaker 6: to be with us at Swarmyfest November fifteenth, right across
Speaker 6: the street at Jewel.
Speaker 9: Welcome guys, Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 6: So let's do this. Let's start here. If you could
Speaker 6: each tell us who you are and what you do
Speaker 6: in the in the band?
Speaker 9: Got it?
Speaker 7: I am Anthony and I do most of it.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, look at you.
Speaker 7: Let's let's start. We could talk about it more later.
Speaker 7: I play guitar live, okay, okay, all right, and you
Speaker 7: I'm Jake. I do vocals and I guess the rest
Speaker 7: of what he doesn't do.
Speaker 6: Okay, there you go. That's a good division of labor.
Speaker 8: And you, sir, I'm Brian, and I keep it together.
Speaker 8: I play the drums and temptrists.
Speaker 6: Okay, outstanding. And is there anyone else involved or is
Speaker 6: it just the three of you?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 6: Wonderful, very cool. So I love your sound. As soon
Speaker 6: as I listen to these, I was like, yeah, I really,
Speaker 6: I really dig this a lot. You sent us a
Speaker 6: few songs later in the show, so people who've been
Speaker 6: listening all morning, if if they were listening live, they
Speaker 6: heard I played Carly two in the second hour because
Speaker 6: we had a spot to sneak something, and I was like,
Speaker 6: I gotta play this. This is so good, it's so catchy.
Speaker 6: But I love all of them. I mean, how do
Speaker 6: you guys describe your sound? Do you describe it as
Speaker 6: kind of a I mean, obviously there's an industrial vibe,
Speaker 6: but it's metal, but it's it. There's a mix of
Speaker 6: influences there, a little bit of hip hop and some
Speaker 6: of it. I mean, how do you guys describe it?
Speaker 6: Everyone always hates this question, but how do you describe
Speaker 6: your music?
Speaker 7: It's a fun question that we've never really found a
Speaker 7: solid answer for.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I write Romstein songs, okay, and then Jake takes
Speaker 7: them and does whatever he does with them, and that's
Speaker 7: what you get. Okay, that's more or less what's happening? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 7: would you agree with that, Jake?
Speaker 9: I would, yeah, ok a Romstein song and making it
Speaker 9: less Romstein?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah. And then so Brian, yes, Brian, so you
Speaker 6: what you're are? You live on these tracks as far
Speaker 6: as drums or what.
Speaker 8: Some of the tracks that we released recently. Yeah, but okay,
Speaker 8: the other stuff was you know, I came into the
Speaker 8: band a little bit later. Yeah, I was been doing
Speaker 8: the local scene forever. I've been in various bands okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: and this kind of stuff. Then.
Speaker 6: Okay, So so you're the newest member, I assume.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So did the project start with with the two.
Speaker 9: Of you or yes and no? Yeah, it's been through
Speaker 9: its phases. I was part of let's let's call it
Speaker 9: phase two, oh okay, and now we're here and we'll
Speaker 9: call it phase three phase three?
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, three point zero.
Speaker 6: I like it. So how did it start?
Speaker 11: So?
Speaker 7: So, Jake and I have been together for ten years
Speaker 7: doing our own thing. Okay, it wasn't always Temptous oh okay,
Speaker 7: my the band I was imprevious to this that we
Speaker 7: talked about that I played with Steps ten twelve years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 7: the singer from that started another band and needed a
Speaker 7: bass player, which is what I do. Okay, so I
Speaker 7: joined that singer couldn't do what we were looking for. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so he stepped down and I immediately just called Jake. Okay,
Speaker 7: that was Temptress one point oh oh okay. Then that
Speaker 7: fizzled out and Jake and I just kept it going
Speaker 7: with the songs we already had, and that's where we're at.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, cool, So how long ago? What was that
Speaker 6: that it started it. It sounds like it's been around
Speaker 6: for a while then.
Speaker 7: Right, twenty eight, twenty eighteen, Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 9: Okay, I would have joined in what twenty nineteen something
Speaker 9: like that, Okay, okay.
Speaker 6: And then so, Brian, how long have you been when
Speaker 6: did you step in?
Speaker 8: I would say I've been with these guys now maybe
Speaker 8: a year.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah it was really new. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Is it challenging to play this kind of music live
Speaker 6: because it's different, it's not. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 6: what other kinds of bands you've been in, but you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's obviously it's more sophisticated from a production standpoint
Speaker 6: than you know, just playing in a straightforward rock band or.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's different than what I normally do. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but I'm an all around musician. I can play various
Speaker 8: styles of music.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: You become better when you try something different.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I mean I come from metal background and jazz blues.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I'm I'm a groove orient the drummer. Yeah, so
Speaker 8: this band is all about the groove and yeah, I
Speaker 8: kind of fit right in. I enjoy playing it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So what's the live show, like, I mean,
Speaker 6: because the music that you guys do would seem to
Speaker 6: lend itself to some sort of theatricality maybe or maybe not.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean, do you have any do
Speaker 6: you just get up and play or is there is
Speaker 6: there something else going on on stage? I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's I can I can imagine. I can imagine different things.
Speaker 7: But I mean with it's time and time and money.
Speaker 6: Yeah these days, so true, it's expensive to be theatrical. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 7: You know, I've always tried to. I like, I liked
Speaker 7: dressing up, like doing the paint and doing the cool stuff,
Speaker 7: not like kiss paint, but like, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 7: enjoy doing something more with it. But we haven't really
Speaker 7: touched that as much as I would like to. That
Speaker 7: I hope to in the future.
Speaker 9: Okay, there is an aesthetic that we would like to
Speaker 9: achieve that we just haven't prioritizing the music itself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so now that makes sense. That makes sense. Has
Speaker 6: the sound I mean again, there's such a mix of
Speaker 6: influences here to begin with, but has the sound kind
Speaker 6: of changed and evolved over the years, Like like if
Speaker 6: I were to hear like Temptress one point oh, would
Speaker 6: that be like drastically different?
Speaker 9: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Yeah, kill switch, engage, kidd okay, Yeah, to a t okay.
Speaker 7: But that was the guitar player at the time, oh
Speaker 7: okay doing the songs. So these are the songs that
Speaker 7: Jake and I have been doing together before Temptress this style, So.
Speaker 6: Was it kind of always the idea to bring in
Speaker 6: these other elements and and yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely, yeah, No,
Speaker 6: I like it a lot. Uh Where where did you
Speaker 6: record these or maybe maybe different places? I don't know.
Speaker 6: Are these tracks from different periods or are they all
Speaker 6: kind of from the same.
Speaker 7: Definitely different period, different periods, And all of them are
Speaker 7: recorded in our closets and bedrooms.
Speaker 9: Yeah, all home studio. Nice, with the exception of Chemical
Speaker 9: oh okay.
Speaker 7: Which was produced in the home studio but recorded at
Speaker 7: an actual studio.
Speaker 9: Oh, that is one of the Temptress.
Speaker 7: Two point oh.
Speaker 9: It is the oldest of the bunch.
Speaker 6: There, I gotcha, I got you okay. Where where was
Speaker 6: that one recorded?
Speaker 9: I was recorded with Dave Gannon. I feel like at
Speaker 9: the name of the.
Speaker 7: Spot, feel like that's the name I've heard, you know,
Speaker 7: it's island oh okay.
Speaker 9: Okay, bandstand live?
Speaker 5: Is that it?
Speaker 9: Yes? And wherever that town I had to think about.
Speaker 6: It is Is it important to to you guys to
Speaker 6: to kind of handle that yourselves.
Speaker 9: More now than it ever was?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, why is that?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: Do you just because it's it's interesting?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Some people I talked to that are the opposite. They're like, oh, no,
Speaker 6: I need I need input from other people, or I
Speaker 6: need you know, I need an engineer who can also
Speaker 6: be a producer and this and that. But but but
Speaker 6: some artists like really want to have that control.
Speaker 7: Like I think it's just as much that we wanted
Speaker 7: to sound like exactly what we wanted to sound like. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but also there's a learning curve that is satisfying to
Speaker 7: see kind of changing over and over.
Speaker 6: No, that makes sense because when you're doing it yourself,
Speaker 6: you learn, You learn a lot. You don't have a choice,
Speaker 6: right you have to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of trial and error, and that's
Speaker 9: the best way to learn from me.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, Well we should
Speaker 6: play another I love these songs. I'm axious to play
Speaker 6: another one. But I'll let you guys pick of the
Speaker 6: of the ones you sent, which which one. Should we
Speaker 6: play next?
Speaker 7: Jake wants to hear the radio edit for Carly.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I only have to.
Speaker 8: Uh, I want to hear it too, because I'm not
Speaker 8: even sure which.
Speaker 6: There's Yeah, this is one. This is one word in
Speaker 6: that I had to Uh, I had to do the old.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, not not a problem. No, But I
Speaker 6: love this song of the four. This is my my
Speaker 6: personal favorite. I listened to it like when I was
Speaker 6: listening to the songs getting ready for today. I listened
Speaker 6: to this one like four times in a row.
Speaker 9: I love that.
Speaker 7: I love to hear it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, this is really good.
Speaker 8: All right, let me hear it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely so. We've got time tress here with us alive
Speaker 6: in studio, and here it is. This is called Carly.
Speaker 12: Sh Shorts riding.
Speaker 5: Gave fine.
Speaker 13: Wants right, that's fine, go right, gave sat.
Speaker 5: The sage, get all.
Speaker 3: They say, the flight song, keep the look song.
Speaker 1: They say a second, I'm gonna show you where the
Speaker 1: snake is gone.
Speaker 3: You see the lion strong duck on.
Speaker 14: The side walk and they'll remember to get the suicide off.
Speaker 14: The night times out should take enough we drop among
Speaker 14: the send a message and blood you do because we
Speaker 14: let the kingdom come and.
Speaker 5: The sound more the lesson.
Speaker 3: Never be one of them.
Speaker 5: So so.
Speaker 3: Just sound the same.
Speaker 15: A poem called.
Speaker 14: Apple what a b The comma is getting on at
Speaker 14: difference between long and screaming with my guy and I
Speaker 14: cast it through the park.
Speaker 2: That's the guy I'm putting in.
Speaker 6: If someone slowly gone, you got stuck.
Speaker 14: Him down, I want to call coming left along the
Speaker 14: fork and got nothing.
Speaker 3: Only wanted to feel like I don't be long. I
Speaker 3: guess I'm just a sinner.
Speaker 15: I'm gonta stream the bar.
Speaker 5: So that's just the SA spot. So so.
Speaker 6: I love it. The band is Temptress and that is
Speaker 6: called Carly and we've got Temptress here with us alive
Speaker 6: in studio. No, that is such a great track. That
Speaker 6: is catchy as hell. I love the hook that everything
Speaker 6: about that is awesome. Thanks great job, guys. We mentioned
Speaker 6: Sepsis earlier because of Swarmy Fest coming up November fifteenth
Speaker 6: at Jewel and Sepsis is in the chat room and
Speaker 6: says love the keyboards synth. I hope to hear this
Speaker 6: one at Swarmy Fest.
Speaker 7: Oh you will.
Speaker 6: It also says screams and the arrangement is on ohwa
Speaker 6: is on point. You guys rock absolutely absolutely so, So
Speaker 6: how did this come about? You guys working with Sepsis
Speaker 6: on Swarmy Fest? How did that? How did that?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 7: I am personally friends with the guy who owns Jewel.
Speaker 6: Oh well that helps, it does.
Speaker 7: So I was just chatting to him and I was like, hey,
Speaker 7: I think Brian reached out to the guy at Loud.
Speaker 7: So we're working with Loud Entertainment. Oh yeah, we had
Speaker 7: we had Loud here last week, the first time we
Speaker 7: ever have. He's been great.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think Brian reached out and he's like, yeah, you
Speaker 7: got to do this and this and this, and I
Speaker 7: was like, eh, you know, I'm weary about working with
Speaker 7: some promoters, so we tend to do it ourselves.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're like, man.
Speaker 7: So I reached out to the owner and I was like, hey,
Speaker 7: we're curious about Swarmy looking for bands like we were free,
Speaker 7: and he's like, all right, cool, so go ahead and
Speaker 7: reach out to him. I just talked to him. So
Speaker 7: I did, and he said the same thing to me
Speaker 7: because apparently we're just, you know, a random band. So
Speaker 7: I went back to him and I was like, hey,
Speaker 7: he told me no, and he's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 7: and then he called to me and he goes, you
Speaker 7: guys are all set please?
Speaker 6: Oh oh okay.
Speaker 7: It was like a big back and forth. But he's
Speaker 7: been very great to work with thus far, and we're
Speaker 7: excited about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, very cool. No, and I think you fit
Speaker 6: the lineup, you know, like really well, really well. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We're really good friends with the guys in Scarecrow Hill,
Speaker 7: oh excellently, So we try and get with them as
Speaker 7: much as we can everywhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah. We had them on a number of months ago
Speaker 6: and really good. And there were another band I'd never
Speaker 6: really listened. It's kind of been aware of them because
Speaker 6: they've been around a long time, but I never really
Speaker 6: heard them. And I listened to the music, I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, these guys are amazing. So yeah, looking
Speaker 6: forward to that too.
Speaker 7: We have a couple of songs with h Tyler that
Speaker 7: we could couldn't send you because they don't even bother
Speaker 7: radio ed It would.
Speaker 6: Have been too much, too much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think I've got one with them too
Speaker 9: that I'm pretty sure is in the same boat.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? So, now, how many songs have
Speaker 6: you guys recorded, like in terms of what what you've
Speaker 6: released because been around a little.
Speaker 9: While, Well, I think we have a definitive answer somewhere
Speaker 9: around sixty seven.
Speaker 6: More than I thought.
Speaker 7: Wow, that's that's very low. So I think Jake and
Speaker 7: I had seventy ish before Temptress even exists. Oh no,
Speaker 7: kidding that we've pulled from to write Temptress songs.
Speaker 9: Okay, sixty seven published my apologies.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's a lot though. Now that's
Speaker 6: an impressive But is.
Speaker 7: That your list with your swear songs removed or with
Speaker 7: o that was before?
Speaker 9: Okay, that's all of them?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd say probably close to one hundred realistically.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh that's amazing. By the way, Sepsis in the
Speaker 6: chat room says, Scarecrow Hill, under the Horizon and Pulsifier
Speaker 6: are all nominated for Rock Metal Act of the Year.
Speaker 6: They are the New England Music Awards and they're all
Speaker 6: playing Swarmy Fest. Yeah, we love Under the Horizon and
Speaker 6: of course, uh Pulsifier we had them on a few
Speaker 6: weeks ago too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now, this is so much incredible talent around here. Sepsis
Speaker 6: also says we're so glad that we scored with Temptress.
Speaker 6: You guys are great, absolutely, Oh, you guys are a
Speaker 6: great fit.
Speaker 7: Sorry, it's it's been a hot minute. I believe we
Speaker 7: played with them at some point, but it's been a
Speaker 7: long time. So this is going to be a really
Speaker 7: fun time Okay, yeah with everybody? Yeah, absolutely right for this.
Speaker 7: So where does the name come from?
Speaker 6: Temptres?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 16: What?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 9: Why?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 7: The uh, the story goes, we were five dudes and
Speaker 7: we thought it'd be really funny because people would assume
Speaker 7: there's at least one hot girl in the band, but
Speaker 7: there's not.
Speaker 6: I'll be completely honest with you. When when when I
Speaker 6: first saw the name, that's what I assumed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, perfect, that's that's the story. Plus, we really wanted
Speaker 7: like one solid word, like a power word, right, not
Speaker 7: like six you know, like the Jimmy Hendrix project, which
Speaker 7: is fine, but like we we didn't want that, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean, like one word. And then we
Speaker 7: thought that was funny.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Oh so I meant to ask
Speaker 6: you this coming out of the track, and then I forgot.
Speaker 6: So what is Carly about? What are those lyrics about?
Speaker 6: Because I think you guys were talking about it when
Speaker 6: I had to run out of the room for a second.
Speaker 6: But what what is the cause? I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 9: It's based on Karl Morgenthau from the Captain America series.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and just choosing to what she did. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: pretty pretty nerdy song through and through.
Speaker 6: No, that's cool, though, that's cool. How do you decide
Speaker 6: what to write about? I mean, I would imagine it's uh.
Speaker 9: Half of it comes from the tracks that that Anthony
Speaker 9: works on senys to me, yeah, and then the other
Speaker 9: half comes from personal experience what I'm going through at
Speaker 9: the time. I don't feeling that day.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 9: It could be random, it could be methodical. Sure, it
Speaker 9: depends on the song.
Speaker 6: Sure, sure, excellent. Well, do you guys want to play another?
Speaker 6: I'll let you pick again because we got a couple more.
Speaker 6: We'll save one for the end of our conversation, of course.
Speaker 6: But you guys want to pick another studio track?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we'll go with five six five The
Speaker 9: five six five.
Speaker 7: That one's heavy, five six five.
Speaker 6: This one presented an interesting dilemma because I had to
Speaker 6: play it. This is a this file type is now
Speaker 6: I'm getting nerdy? What what file type is this? It
Speaker 6: does play, it will play, But what is it telling?
Speaker 7: It came through like a wave?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 6: It's weird. It came through. The other tracks all came
Speaker 6: through his wave. This one for some reason. It actually
Speaker 6: says five file on it and it's and it's not.
Speaker 6: It doesn't have I can even I can even turn
Speaker 6: this and show you. That's how it looks on my monitor.
Speaker 9: I think it took one of the periods from the
Speaker 9: song title. It might have used it as the extension.
Speaker 9: It must that makes sense, that wave at the end.
Speaker 9: It would probably work.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, Well the good news is I can play
Speaker 6: it on here, okay, because it just looks really weird,
Speaker 6: but it will it will actually play, so but that
Speaker 6: that makes sense. That okay. Yeah, well now we know
Speaker 6: we learned something, all right, So we're gonna hit this
Speaker 6: track next. This is five six five and the band
Speaker 6: is temptous. Oh what does that mean? By the way,
Speaker 6: what's the meaning of the We should talk about the
Speaker 6: song before I play it? What does that mean?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's I have no idea being in between normal,
Speaker 9: it's being in limbo on the spot. I'm struggling to
Speaker 9: find the explanation. But it's a a take on six
Speaker 9: sixty six. Oh, but not to the full extent of
Speaker 9: what it represents.
Speaker 6: Oh, I gotcha, Okay, okay, between yes, No, that makes sense.
Speaker 6: I like that. Sorry, I'm stalling. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 6: how I played it and I figured it out. Oh,
Speaker 6: here we go. Here it comes five six five. The
Speaker 6: band is Temptress's.
Speaker 3: Ways. Well we like so lost. It's been something.
Speaker 15: By sax fine on my gott Jester, I'm not. They
Speaker 15: tell their why my sex fine?
Speaker 5: Oh my gott die?
Speaker 15: I call it sex ye got Jeter, I know, tell
Speaker 15: their wi my sax fine.
Speaker 5: I'm going, I'm gott die.
Speaker 3: It's been so long, spent journey and it's been so long.
Speaker 3: There were the same discuss the stiffs, the.
Speaker 15: Wind by sax ye on my bottle Jack sard all
Speaker 15: their Wi Fi sax sine on the cottic, I call
Speaker 15: it sax sie on my dot.
Speaker 3: Jackuar no, tell their wi by.
Speaker 15: Sax line on cotton dotting.
Speaker 5: The shy.
Speaker 15: Like gold got that?
Speaker 3: Why have gods?
Speaker 5: The cry? Why stack sign on my calling count.
Speaker 3: Tier I go?
Speaker 15: They tell their wife by stacks fine, I'm calling you John,
Speaker 15: I'm not calling Don sax signer. They tell their wife
Speaker 15: Lie Sacks, fine, uncle going John.
Speaker 6: M five six five the band is Temptress, and Temptress
Speaker 6: is here with us, alive in studio and Jake, is
Speaker 6: it hard to sing that way without hurting.
Speaker 9: Your voice or I mean that's why we cater the
Speaker 9: sets how we do, Yeah, to play to my strengths. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so it isn't if it's you know, timed, right, I mean,
Speaker 9: if I'm gonna do that at the end of the set,
Speaker 9: maybe it's yeah, a little different, but yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm always impressed with singers who can do that, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I try not to completely blow it out right right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely if you are just joining us. We
Speaker 6: do have Temptress here with us in studio and they
Speaker 6: are going to be performing at Swarmyfest coming up November
Speaker 6: fifteenth at Jewel right here in Manchester and Matt Connorton
Speaker 6: Unleashed is one of the official sponsors of the show
Speaker 6: once again. Is this our third or fourth year in
Speaker 6: a row? Fourth? Yes? Yeah, the time goes fast, but yeah,
Speaker 6: so really looking forward to seeing you guys live.
Speaker 3: Do you play out a lot?
Speaker 6: Like what's the show schedule?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: Currently are you playing out a lot of shows or we.
Speaker 7: All had kids, well, Jake and I had kids during COVID. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that kind of shudder down a little bit. Yeah, just
Speaker 7: harder because I gotta find places for other people to
Speaker 7: live for the night. Yeah, so not as often as
Speaker 7: we want. Now this is probably on the second show
Speaker 7: of the year.
Speaker 9: Oh no kidding, Oh wow, We've got a lot going
Speaker 9: on in the background. But it's it makes it easy
Speaker 9: when we do have home studios. We can do that
Speaker 9: and still feel productive even if we're not playing out
Speaker 9: as much as we want.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I assume in previous bands, you guys
Speaker 6: probably all played more right, Yeah, but yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: life gets in the way of that, that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Plus it's you know, it's expensive now to you know,
Speaker 6: like a lot of a lot of bands don't even
Speaker 6: want a tour anymore because it's it's become cosper amitive
Speaker 6: to do so. But no, but we're really looking forward
Speaker 6: to seeing you guys live. Have you made any I
Speaker 6: didn't have a chance to look. Have you made any
Speaker 6: music videos for.
Speaker 9: Any of these or anything? I wish has one? Yeah,
Speaker 9: wish does, Okay, chemical does. No, Chemical does as well.
Speaker 9: Ye might be the only two out of.
Speaker 7: The video for Chemicals like a like a real video.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the Wish ones like a like a AI
Speaker 7: lyric video.
Speaker 6: Oh o kidding, okay, but we we do have a couple. Okay,
Speaker 6: but the one for Chemical is a full, fully produced video.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 6: Oh cool.
Speaker 9: Wish is not a lyric video. It's my creation of lyrics,
Speaker 9: very clear.
Speaker 6: Whatever whatever burn. So, so Chemical is when did that
Speaker 6: come out? The video for that?
Speaker 9: It was much later than the song itself.
Speaker 6: Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was during COVID because your brother
Speaker 7: yelled at us going to your house.
Speaker 6: Ah, so did you guys, you guys producer yourselves.
Speaker 9: Yeah, film the video.
Speaker 7: We had two videos. Oh what else do we have?
Speaker 9: We have the live one from Manchester?
Speaker 7: Oh that no, No, the in the store that's part
Speaker 7: of Chemical.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's two different videos.
Speaker 7: Well this is like a live version and like the
Speaker 7: actual version. So our friend Amy, who's one of the
Speaker 7: Scarecrow Hill group people who does photos, she's amazing. Hire her.
Speaker 7: She filmed half of it. We filmed half of it,
Speaker 7: and then we kind of collaborate on putting it together.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? And then so what's kind of
Speaker 6: the well, actually the songs that we're hearing, so are
Speaker 6: they part of an album or are they a part
Speaker 6: of an EP? Or have you just released singles.
Speaker 9: Or they're all part of different albums?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, that was on purpose.
Speaker 9: Okay, that was the kind of showcase a little bit
Speaker 9: from each But have.
Speaker 6: You guys released because there's so many different ways to
Speaker 6: release music now, you know, you can do an album,
Speaker 6: you can do an EP, you can do you know
Speaker 6: some of the guests we have now they just release
Speaker 6: a series of singles or a series of singles that
Speaker 6: eventually coalesce into an album or an EP. Like, what's
Speaker 6: kind of been the strategy with you guys? So because
Speaker 6: you said these are all from different albums, So do
Speaker 6: you do consistently do albums or do you have any
Speaker 6: that are just singles?
Speaker 9: Or Wish was one of those singles leading up to
Speaker 9: the album? Oh okay, I know that's pretty popular right now,
Speaker 9: is multiple singles leading up to an album. Yeah, which
Speaker 9: does sound like a good idea, But I think wishes,
Speaker 9: we have three Wish hex and I don't know with
Speaker 9: Arms Wide Open.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, that are full length albums or though those
Speaker 6: are the single? Oh, those are the singles? Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we we pay the same amount. This is getting
Speaker 7: into the business side. We pay the same amount to
Speaker 7: release a single as an album. Yeah, so I try
Speaker 7: not to do that because if I released thirteen songs,
Speaker 7: I pay the same amount to put it on Spotify
Speaker 7: as one, right, right, so it doesn't make as much sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotcha, that's true. I hadn't thought of it
Speaker 6: that way, and thought of it that way. Yeah, there's
Speaker 6: so many ways to do it now. But is it
Speaker 6: what when you when you guys do an album, is
Speaker 6: there a theme to the album? Do you try to
Speaker 6: do you try to make it a consistent theme because
Speaker 6: the summer that's important. And to some it's like, well, no,
Speaker 6: it's a collection of songs, what's the matter?
Speaker 7: But only for the last.
Speaker 9: Two really yeah yeah, I mean there's there's a loose
Speaker 9: running theme to each I guess, but the last two
Speaker 9: have been specifically themed.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, which is new for me? Really Yeah.
Speaker 8: I haven't a band that right, so based on a
Speaker 8: team it's it's pretty cool. It's a good concept.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, It's just.
Speaker 7: It's easier for me. I'm I found it easy. So
Speaker 7: the Time Travelers Continuum the album that we released, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's the newest one.
Speaker 7: No oh, that's that's the one before the newest one.
Speaker 7: Okay okay, but that that was like, that was the
Speaker 7: first one we did when I had like an idea
Speaker 7: of what I wanted them all to do and to
Speaker 7: be yeah ahead of time okay. And I found it
Speaker 7: nice and that that was a like thirteen songs okay,
Speaker 7: and we just kept adding to it. It was like
Speaker 7: it was eight, and it was nine, then it was eleven,
Speaker 7: and then it was thirteen.
Speaker 9: I was like, all right, this is it. I mean,
Speaker 9: there was a nostalgic element there that kind of kept
Speaker 9: pushing us for more though.
Speaker 7: There was and that was the first time I'd ever
Speaker 7: use an eight string And honestly, I love album front
Speaker 7: to back.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, so good. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 9: What was the theme h legend of yes?
Speaker 6: Okay? Okay?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: And then what so what's the newest album?
Speaker 7: The newest album is Mother Mother okay a six song EP.
Speaker 6: Oh that's an ep okay, gotcha?
Speaker 7: And what's the theme of that resident evil village?
Speaker 6: Okay okay? Cool? Yeah, you guys are in a so
Speaker 6: no one would like unless you're does anyone well, let
Speaker 6: me ask the question this way, does anyone ever figure out, like,
Speaker 6: does anyone ever say to you, hey, I listened to
Speaker 6: this EP or I listened to this album and then
Speaker 6: they start talking to you like they like they got it,
Speaker 6: like they they understood the theme.
Speaker 9: I like, there's been a couple but has it?
Speaker 6: Has it happened? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Not as much as i'd hope.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's cool if it has. I'm super curious
Speaker 6: if anyone's ever come up with you and said, yeah,
Speaker 6: I like that, I like that legend of Zelda.
Speaker 7: You know, if somebody really looked at it and listened, yeah,
Speaker 7: that was a fan of the game, they would know. Yeah,
Speaker 7: like I did that on purpose. We separated it just
Speaker 7: enough that I wasn't we weren't calling the songs exactly
Speaker 7: what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So like if you didn't know, you're like, oh, here's
Speaker 7: a zolda, right, But if you looked at it and
Speaker 7: you were a fan and you listened, you would figure
Speaker 7: it out.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool though, Yeah, So that must be. So
Speaker 6: if somebody does actually approach you and say, you know,
Speaker 6: I identifies that they at least have some idea. That
Speaker 6: must be pretty gratifying, right, because it's like, Wow, they
Speaker 6: really paid attention and and you know that's validating.
Speaker 9: It really is. And I mean the writing was coming
Speaker 9: from a nostalgic perspective of playing through that game, yeah,
Speaker 9: and like kind of where my head was at as
Speaker 9: a child. Yeah, and so that made it fun. So yeah,
Speaker 9: I added a whole another element.
Speaker 6: And Zelda's kind of multi generational too, so yeah, so
Speaker 6: that has a broad appeal. That's really cool. And then
Speaker 6: so what's kind of the future trajectory, like do you
Speaker 6: guys have because your musical output already for is pretty
Speaker 6: broad for a relatively short period of times. I assume
Speaker 6: you're always writing, right, Oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we already have eleven songs ready for new no kidding, yeah,
Speaker 7: no kidding.
Speaker 9: More than that, yeah, more.
Speaker 6: Than have you started recording those yet?
Speaker 9: Or oh yeah, we're sitting on a lot Okay.
Speaker 6: Okay, excellent, And Brian, you're gonna be on on these
Speaker 6: very cool, very cool?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Does that change the sound with a live drummer, like, like,
Speaker 6: is it or does it change your how you guys
Speaker 6: write these?
Speaker 9: Are it changes the feel?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You can sure it can because he can interpret. So
Speaker 7: when I say I do I do everything, I don't
Speaker 7: actually do it. I make the songs start to finish.
Speaker 7: The guitar is the bass, the keyboards, what I'm thinking
Speaker 7: for drums, and I have to put them in there.
Speaker 7: For Jake because it doesn't sound like a song. He
Speaker 7: has trouble like where it starts, where it ends, So
Speaker 7: I put them. I put them in there, and.
Speaker 6: For some of these can tell you guys have known
Speaker 6: each other a lot time.
Speaker 7: He just called me stupid, but they'll call me stupid.
Speaker 7: Some of these whole albums are just Jake and I.
Speaker 7: There's no live drums at all. Yeah, and that's just
Speaker 7: what I thought went there. So what I like about
Speaker 7: having a live drummer and Brian's cool for it is
Speaker 7: I have them there, but I'll bounce him one with
Speaker 7: no drums and let him cook. Yeah, but we have
Speaker 7: the one aside. Yeah, so we know what's supposed to
Speaker 7: be happening, and then we can let him do it
Speaker 7: and have the conversation. And sometimes he feels a section
Speaker 7: completely different than I do, which is great. Yeah, but
Speaker 7: we have that extra level of conversation piece of what
Speaker 7: we're doing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's almost nice to have that cookie cutter drum
Speaker 9: build and then do what I want with it, and
Speaker 9: then hear his take and be able to adjust what
Speaker 9: I've done to cater today more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that makes sense. But it's also a little bit
Speaker 6: of an unconventional approach. You know, you don't usually hear
Speaker 6: you know, usually it's you know, the drums are already
Speaker 6: there when you're or a scratch track of a demo.
Speaker 6: But but but it's interesting that you're writing lyrics influence
Speaker 6: somewhat by what he's doing. That's interesting.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, definitely one of the many interesting approaches I take.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool. And then so Anthony, how
Speaker 6: many like what was your first instrument? Because you obviously
Speaker 6: you play a lot of stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a I'm a bass player.
Speaker 6: Okay, is that your first instrument?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh interesting, Yeah, I taught myself playing a lot of
Speaker 7: chili peppers in high school. My mom was at work
Speaker 7: really loud because nobody cared. So that's where it all started.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And then what was what was your next from there?
Speaker 7: So you started on bass and then you think I
Speaker 7: got a keyboard, like one of those couple hundred dollars
Speaker 7: ones with all the different noises. Ye, yep, I've always
Speaker 7: been into Romstein, so that was like I had to
Speaker 7: go there next. Yeah, and keyboard stuff. Yeah, and then
Speaker 7: I got a guitar because you can complete bass, you
Speaker 7: can kind of play guitar.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So a lot of this sounds like Romstein because like
Speaker 7: I'm not I'm not a Damien shout out. I'm not
Speaker 7: like a guitar virtuoso. Yeah, I'm playing power chords and sure,
Speaker 7: but like, if you can do one, you can do
Speaker 7: the other. And that's kind of where I'm at with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, interesting, you make it work, I do. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So so every all all that is you and then
Speaker 6: all the vocal and then Jake, are you the only
Speaker 6: like are all the vocals you?
Speaker 5: Or do you?
Speaker 6: Does anyone else sing back up?
Speaker 9: Or maybe that's all you?
Speaker 6: Okay, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 7: I'd like to do it, but I'm not as good
Speaker 7: as I should be.
Speaker 9: Okay, I mean you can stay toned up. It's okay.
Speaker 7: It's one of those deals. That's fine.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6: So the so the eleven songs, like, have you started
Speaker 6: recording them yet?
Speaker 7: Or where where we do it ourselves? I generally there's
Speaker 7: only two versions, Like, we make a demo which is
Speaker 7: honestly radio quality, yeah, and then I do a mastered
Speaker 7: version with everyone's final takes and mixes and levels, and.
Speaker 6: So you do you do the mastering too. Wow, you
Speaker 6: guys really do do it all. Wow.
Speaker 7: I hate paying people for stuff I can do myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: That's in every facet of my life.
Speaker 6: Yep, yep.
Speaker 9: And if it's uh, you know, something that we can
Speaker 9: put under our belt used down the road, it makes
Speaker 9: it that much more valuable to do it ourselves and
Speaker 9: learn that one hundred Yeah. I mean it's a time
Speaker 9: sink for sure, but it's worth it at the end
Speaker 9: of the day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. No, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 6: And then you you probably don't know right at this point,
Speaker 6: like any kind of an eta on when the next album.
Speaker 9: I mean it's I'll say I've got vocals on three okay,
Speaker 9: so yeah.
Speaker 7: And uh, chemical we wrote entirely in one day. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so that's not saying it's not going to be done
Speaker 7: next week.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it really the mood could hit me
Speaker 9: and I could, you know, go in and knock out
Speaker 9: three more songs today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 8: I've worked on a couple of the songs already drum wise, okay,
Speaker 8: And I'm always switching up my ideas every time I
Speaker 8: go back and listen to a drummer's track.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but based on what you said earlier, we go
Speaker 8: on what his idea is, and then I'll build off
Speaker 8: of that.
Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah, So probably some sometime in twenty six, I
Speaker 6: would assume the new one, probably early twenty five, early
Speaker 6: twenty six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're doing the show in November. We have our
Speaker 7: own show in December. Oh, we're doing that jewel as well.
Speaker 6: Oh, tell us about that.
Speaker 7: So we're gonna do the back room. I wanted to
Speaker 7: do more of like a I don't know. I keep
Speaker 7: having the show in my head. Is h People didn't
Speaker 7: know it was nine Inch Nails, but I think it
Speaker 7: was like six or seven where they just sent like
Speaker 7: flyers to certain people. Yeah, and no one knew what
Speaker 7: it was, and a bunch of people showed up in
Speaker 7: a really wild warehouse in the middle of Manhattan somewhere.
Speaker 6: I remember hearing about this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's people are gonna know. But like right like
Speaker 7: someone comes out and starts berating everybody in the crowd.
Speaker 7: You don't even know why you're here.
Speaker 6: Why are you here?
Speaker 7: We could we could be robbing murdering you And then
Speaker 7: uh nine Nails starts playing. Yeah, so like I want that,
Speaker 7: like industrial tiny loud club vibes were shooting for that.
Speaker 7: So it's right now, it's us in Scarecrow. I'm trying
Speaker 7: to find a couple other bands. Okay, okay, that's the
Speaker 7: twelfth of December.
Speaker 6: Okay, I love the concept.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we're we're doing those so I'm probably thinking
Speaker 7: early twenty six.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, extremely cool. Well, the time goes quickly. I
Speaker 6: want to make sure we have time to get the
Speaker 6: get the last track, and because Chemical is one we
Speaker 6: didn't play yet, right right, right, So before we start
Speaker 6: to wind up, though, I want to make sure so
Speaker 6: everybody knows exactly. Well, first of all, we want to
Speaker 6: remind people about November fifteenth swarm me Fest. Where should
Speaker 6: people go online to find out, well, to keep up
Speaker 6: with everything that you guys are doing, not just swarm
Speaker 6: me Fest, but if they just want to get your
Speaker 6: music and follow your follow everything that you do.
Speaker 7: It's on every streaming platform available.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's easy.
Speaker 9: Social media handle Temptress Official.
Speaker 7: Temptress Official Okay, Facebook, Instagram, porn Hub. We're all over
Speaker 7: the place Pornhub.
Speaker 9: All right, well I'm not going to go there, but okay,
Speaker 9: he's not kidding.
Speaker 6: I did not know that.
Speaker 7: I want the music everywhere possible people can find it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. All right, Well, we're gonna close out
Speaker 6: with Chemical in just some moments. So what should we
Speaker 6: know about this before we hear it?
Speaker 9: It's about toxic relationships.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay. I remember listening to the lyrics and kind
Speaker 6: of thinking it's it's sort of relatable, like it's something
Speaker 6: that probably everybody can can relate to at some point
Speaker 6: or another.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going further, but it's I mean, at the
Speaker 9: end of the day, that's right, right, A good explanation, right,
Speaker 9: very good.
Speaker 6: So we're going to close out with this track with
Speaker 6: these guys check this out, and then after that, Jenny
Speaker 6: and I are going to come back and wrap up.
Speaker 6: Got a couple of things to tell you about. But guys,
Speaker 6: thank you again so much. It's wonderful to meet all
Speaker 6: three of you, and I love your sound and we'll
Speaker 6: definitely do this in the future and really looking forward
Speaker 6: to seeing you on November fifteenth. Thank you, that's gonna
Speaker 6: be amazing. Absolutely, but check this out. This is Temptress
Speaker 6: and the track is chemical.
Speaker 3: Come cam, come, it's chimming. Come it's chemmic. Come no man,
Speaker 3: say you can go?
Speaker 17: Quin the SAgs a most small and weak can back.
Speaker 10: That's nowhere at all from my friend coming clear that
Speaker 10: this will be the honey.
Speaker 3: And bodies do in time. Jesus's good.
Speaker 16: A meaning miney morn, maybe murder, Get to lie him
Speaker 16: by the free, get to lie him by the poor.
Speaker 9: If they hollen, don't let go, if they hard, don't
Speaker 9: let go?
Speaker 3: All he goes, Why oh you.
Speaker 18: It's comic? S this bolga, it's Kevin. It's Kevin.
Speaker 2: Month old.
Speaker 3: You brought a man and take and roll over Quin.
Speaker 17: The SAgs almost small and wait can bat.
Speaker 3: Let's go man at all?
Speaker 5: From my friend.
Speaker 10: Coming clear on that this will be the honey.
Speaker 15: To let us oil.
Speaker 16: To a meaning ninety morning ny murder, Get a lie
Speaker 16: about the third, get a lie of by the boy.
Speaker 3: If we hoke, don't let go, if the hop don't
Speaker 3: let go, how goes? Why oh you? It's coming comes.
Speaker 11: This bull, it's killing Colet's call it gos al.
Speaker 5: Ll time.
Speaker 3: Where let's come and go.
Speaker 5: No, Sam, this bull gangle.
Speaker 2: Let's come it dry, Let's call it come. That's all
Speaker 2: the wino.
Speaker 18: It's coming from.
Speaker 2: Its sna
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