Temptress | Matt Connarton Unleashed - Matt Connarton Unleashed

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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 in studio. The band Temptress is here and that is their song that is called Wish and Temptress is going to be with us at Swarmyfest November fifteenth, right across 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 each tell us who you are and what you do 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. I play guitar live, okay, okay, all right, and you I'm Jake. I do vocals and I guess the rest 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. I play the drums and temptrists.

Speaker 6: Okay, outstanding. And is there anyone else involved or is it just the three of you?

Speaker 10: Oh?

Speaker 6: Wonderful, very cool. So I love your sound. As soon as I listen to these, I was like, yeah, I really, I really dig this a lot. You sent us a few songs later in the show, so people who've been listening all morning, if if they were listening live, they heard I played Carly two in the second hour because we had a spot to sneak something, and I was like, I gotta play this. This is so good, it's so catchy. But I love all of them. I mean, how do you guys describe your sound? Do you describe it as kind of a I mean, obviously there's an industrial vibe, but it's metal, but it's it.

Speaker 6: There's a mix of influences there, a little bit of hip hop and some of it. I mean, how do you guys describe it? Everyone always hates this question, but how do you describe your music?

Speaker 7: It's a fun question that we've never really found a solid answer for.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So I write Romstein songs, okay, and then Jake takes them and does whatever he does with them, and that's what you get. Okay, that's more or less what's happening? Okay, Okay, would you agree with that, Jake?

Speaker 9: I would, yeah, ok a Romstein song and making it less Romstein?

Speaker 6: Yeah yeah. And then so Brian, yes, Brian, so you what you're are? You live on these tracks as far as drums or what.

Speaker 8: Some of the tracks that we released recently. Yeah, but okay, the other stuff was you know, I came into the band a little bit later. Yeah, I was been doing the local scene forever. I've been in various bands okay, okay, yeah, 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 its phases. I was part of let's let's call it phase two, oh okay, and now we're here and we'll 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 doing our own thing. Okay, it wasn't always Temptous oh okay, my the band I was imprevious to this that we talked about that I played with Steps ten twelve years ago. Yeah, the singer from that started another band and needed a bass player, which is what I do. Okay, so I joined that singer couldn't do what we were looking for. Yeah, so he stepped down and I immediately just called Jake. Okay, that was Temptress one point oh oh okay. Then that fizzled out and Jake and I just kept it going 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 that it started it. It sounds like it's been around 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 like that, Okay, okay.

Speaker 6: And then so, Brian, how long have you been when did you step in?

Speaker 8: I would say I've been with these guys now maybe 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 because it's different, it's not. I mean, I don't know what other kinds of bands you've been in, but you know, it's it's obviously it's more sophisticated from a production standpoint 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, but I'm an all around musician. I can play various 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 this band is all about the groove and yeah, I kind of fit right in. I enjoy playing it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So what's the live show, like, I mean, because the music that you guys do would seem to lend itself to some sort of theatricality maybe or maybe not. I don't know. I mean, do you have any do you just get up and play or is there is there something else going on on stage? I don't know. 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, it is.

Speaker 7: You know, I've always tried to. I like, I liked dressing up, like doing the paint and doing the cool stuff, not like kiss paint, but like, yeah, you know, I enjoy doing something more with it. But we haven't really touched that as much as I would like to. That I hope to in the future.

Speaker 9: Okay, there is an aesthetic that we would like to achieve that we just haven't prioritizing the music itself.

Speaker 6: Yeah, so now that makes sense. That makes sense. Has the sound I mean again, there's such a mix of influences here to begin with, but has the sound kind of changed and evolved over the years, Like like if I were to hear like Temptress one point oh, would that be like drastically different?

Speaker 9: Absolutely?

Speaker 7: Yeah, kill switch, engage, kidd okay, Yeah, to a t okay. But that was the guitar player at the time, oh okay doing the songs. So these are the songs that Jake and I have been doing together before Temptress this style, So.

Speaker 6: Was it kind of always the idea to bring in these other elements and and yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely, yeah, No, I like it a lot. Uh Where where did you record these or maybe maybe different places? I don't know. Are these tracks from different periods or are they all kind of from the same.

Speaker 7: Definitely different period, different periods, And all of them are recorded in our closets and bedrooms.

Speaker 9: Yeah, all home studio. Nice, with the exception of Chemical oh okay.

Speaker 7: Which was produced in the home studio but recorded at 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 that one recorded?

Speaker 9: I was recorded with Dave Gannon. I feel like at the name of the.

Speaker 7: Spot, feel like that's the name I've heard, you know, 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 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, I need I need input from other people, or I need you know, I need an engineer who can also be a producer and this and that. But but but some artists like really want to have that control.

Speaker 7: Like I think it's just as much that we wanted to sound like exactly what we wanted to sound like. Yeah, but also there's a learning curve that is satisfying to see kind of changing over and over.

Speaker 6: No, that makes sense because when you're doing it yourself, you learn, You learn a lot. You don't have a choice, right you have to.

Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of trial and error, and that's the best way to learn from me.

Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, Well we should play another I love these songs. I'm axious to play another one. But I'll let you guys pick of the of the ones you sent, which which one. Should we 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 even sure which.

Speaker 6: There's Yeah, this is one. This is one word in 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 love this song of the four. This is my my personal favorite. I listened to it like when I was listening to the songs getting ready for today. I listened 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 in studio, and here it is. This is called Carly.

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Speaker 6: If someone slowly gone, you got stuck.

Speaker 14: Him down, I want to call coming left along the fork and got nothing.

Speaker 3: Only wanted to feel like I don't be long. I 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 called Carly and we've got Temptress here with us alive in studio. No, that is such a great track. That is catchy as hell. I love the hook that everything about that is awesome. Thanks great job, guys. We mentioned Sepsis earlier because of Swarmy Fest coming up November fifteenth at Jewel and Sepsis is in the chat room and says love the keyboards synth. I hope to hear this one at Swarmy Fest.

Speaker 7: Oh you will.

Speaker 6: It also says screams and the arrangement is on ohwa is on point. You guys rock absolutely absolutely so, So how did this come about? You guys working with Sepsis 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, I think Brian reached out to the guy at Loud. So we're working with Loud Entertainment. Oh yeah, we had we had Loud here last week, the first time we ever have. He's been great.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 7: I think Brian reached out and he's like, yeah, you got to do this and this and this, and I was like, eh, you know, I'm weary about working with 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, we're curious about Swarmy looking for bands like we were free, and he's like, all right, cool, so go ahead and reach out to him. I just talked to him. So I did, and he said the same thing to me because apparently we're just, you know, a random band. So I went back to him and I was like, hey, he told me no, and he's like, wait a minute, and then he called to me and he goes, you guys are all set please?

Speaker 6: Oh oh okay.

Speaker 7: It was like a big back and forth. But he's been very great to work with thus far, and we're excited about it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, very cool. No, and I think you fit 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, oh excellently, So we try and get with them as much as we can everywhere.

Speaker 6: Yeah. We had them on a number of months ago and really good. And there were another band I'd never really listened. It's kind of been aware of them because they've been around a long time, but I never really heard them. And I listened to the music, I was like, oh my god, these guys are amazing. So yeah, looking forward to that too.

Speaker 7: We have a couple of songs with h Tyler that we could couldn't send you because they don't even bother 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 that I'm pretty sure is in the same boat.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? So, now, how many songs have you guys recorded, like in terms of what what you've released because been around a little.

Speaker 9: While, Well, I think we have a definitive answer somewhere around sixty seven.

Speaker 6: More than I thought.

Speaker 7: Wow, that's that's very low. So I think Jake and I had seventy ish before Temptress even exists. Oh no, 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 an impressive But is.

Speaker 7: That your list with your swear songs removed or with 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 chat room says, Scarecrow Hill, under the Horizon and Pulsifier are all nominated for Rock Metal Act of the Year. They are the New England Music Awards and they're all playing Swarmy Fest. Yeah, we love Under the Horizon and of course, uh Pulsifier we had them on a few weeks ago too.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Now, this is so much incredible talent around here. Sepsis also says we're so glad that we scored with Temptress. You guys are great, absolutely, Oh, you guys are a great fit.

Speaker 7: Sorry, it's it's been a hot minute. I believe we played with them at some point, but it's been a long time. So this is going to be a really fun time Okay, yeah with everybody? Yeah, absolutely right for this. 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 we thought it'd be really funny because people would assume there's at least one hot girl in the band, but there's not.

Speaker 6: I'll be completely honest with you. When when when I first saw the name, that's what I assumed.

Speaker 7: Yeah, perfect, that's that's the story. Plus, we really wanted like one solid word, like a power word, right, not like six you know, like the Jimmy Hendrix project, which is fine, but like we we didn't want that, you know what I mean, like one word. And then we thought that was funny.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Oh so I meant to ask you this coming out of the track, and then I forgot. So what is Carly about? What are those lyrics about? Because I think you guys were talking about it when I had to run out of the room for a second. 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. Oh okay, and just choosing to what she did. Yeah, yeah, okay, pretty pretty nerdy song through and through.

Speaker 6: No, that's cool, though, that's cool. How do you decide what to write about? I mean, I would imagine it's uh.

Speaker 9: Half of it comes from the tracks that that Anthony works on senys to me, yeah, and then the other half comes from personal experience what I'm going through at the time. I don't feeling that day.

Speaker 6: Yep.

Speaker 9: It could be random, it could be methodical. Sure, it depends on the song.

Speaker 6: Sure, sure, excellent. Well, do you guys want to play another? I'll let you pick again because we got a couple more. We'll save one for the end of our conversation, of course. But you guys want to pick another studio track?

Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we'll go with five six five The five six five.

Speaker 7: That one's heavy, five six five.

Speaker 6: This one presented an interesting dilemma because I had to play it. This is a this file type is now I'm getting nerdy? What what file type is this? It 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 through his wave. This one for some reason. It actually says five file on it and it's and it's not. It doesn't have I can even I can even turn this and show you. That's how it looks on my monitor.

Speaker 9: I think it took one of the periods from the song title. It might have used it as the extension. It must that makes sense, that wave at the end. It would probably work.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, Well the good news is I can play it on here, okay, because it just looks really weird, but it will it will actually play, so but that that makes sense. That okay. Yeah, well now we know we learned something, all right, So we're gonna hit this track next. This is five six five and the band is temptous. Oh what does that mean? By the way, what's the meaning of the We should talk about the song before I play it? What does that mean?

Speaker 9: Yeah, it's I have no idea being in between normal, it's being in limbo on the spot. I'm struggling to find the explanation. But it's a a take on six sixty six. Oh, but not to the full extent of what it represents.

Speaker 6: Oh, I gotcha, Okay, okay, between yes, No, that makes sense. I like that. Sorry, I'm stalling. I'm trying to remember how I played it and I figured it out. Oh, here we go. Here it comes five six five. The band is Temptress's.

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Speaker 5: I'm going, I'm gott die.

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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 Lie Sacks, fine, uncle going John.

Speaker 6: M five six five the band is Temptress, and Temptress is here with us, alive in studio and Jake, is it hard to sing that way without hurting.

Speaker 9: Your voice or I mean that's why we cater the sets how we do, Yeah, to play to my strengths. Yeah, so it isn't if it's you know, timed, right, I mean, if I'm gonna do that at the end of the set, 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 do have Temptress here with us in studio and they are going to be performing at Swarmyfest coming up November fifteenth at Jewel right here in Manchester and Matt Connorton Unleashed is one of the official sponsors of the show once again. Is this our third or fourth year in a row? Fourth? Yes? Yeah, the time goes fast, but yeah, 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, that kind of shudder down a little bit. Yeah, just harder because I gotta find places for other people to live for the night. Yeah, so not as often as we want. Now this is probably on the second show of the year.

Speaker 9: Oh no kidding, Oh wow, We've got a lot going on in the background. But it's it makes it easy when we do have home studios. We can do that and still feel productive even if we're not playing out as much as we want.

Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I assume in previous bands, you guys probably all played more right, Yeah, but yeah, you know, yeah, life gets in the way of that, that's for sure. Plus it's you know, it's expensive now to you know, like a lot of a lot of bands don't even want a tour anymore because it's it's become cosper amitive to do so. But no, but we're really looking forward to seeing you guys live. Have you made any I didn't have a chance to look. Have you made any music videos for.

Speaker 9: Any of these or anything? I wish has one? Yeah, wish does, Okay, chemical does. No, Chemical does as well. Ye might be the only two out of.

Speaker 7: The video for Chemicals like a like a real video. Oh yeah, the Wish ones like a like a AI lyric video.

Speaker 6: Oh o kidding, okay, but we we do have a couple. Okay, 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, very clear.

Speaker 6: Whatever whatever burn. So, so Chemical is when did that 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 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 of Chemical.

Speaker 9: Yeah, there's two different videos.

Speaker 7: Well this is like a live version and like the actual version. So our friend Amy, who's one of the Scarecrow Hill group people who does photos, she's amazing. Hire her. She filmed half of it. We filmed half of it, and then we kind of collaborate on putting it together.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? And then so what's kind of the well, actually the songs that we're hearing, so are they part of an album or are they a part 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 from each But have.

Speaker 6: You guys released because there's so many different ways to release music now, you know, you can do an album, you can do an EP, you can do you know some of the guests we have now they just release a series of singles or a series of singles that eventually coalesce into an album or an EP. Like, what's kind of been the strategy with you guys? So because you said these are all from different albums, So do you do consistently do albums or do you have any that are just singles?

Speaker 9: Or Wish was one of those singles leading up to the album? Oh okay, I know that's pretty popular right now, is multiple singles leading up to an album. Yeah, which does sound like a good idea, But I think wishes, we have three Wish hex and I don't know with Arms Wide Open.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, that are full length albums or though those are the single? Oh, those are the singles? Okay, gotcha?

Speaker 7: Yeah, we we pay the same amount. This is getting into the business side. We pay the same amount to release a single as an album. Yeah, so I try not to do that because if I released thirteen songs, I pay the same amount to put it on Spotify 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 that way, and thought of it that way. Yeah, there's so many ways to do it now. But is it what when you when you guys do an album, is there a theme to the album? Do you try to do you try to make it a consistent theme because the summer that's important. And to some it's like, well, no, 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 running theme to each I guess, but the last two 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 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 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. Okay okay, but that that was like, that was the first one we did when I had like an idea of what I wanted them all to do and to be yeah ahead of time okay. And I found it nice and that that was a like thirteen songs okay, and we just kept adding to it. It was like it was eight, and it was nine, then it was eleven, and then it was thirteen.

Speaker 9: I was like, all right, this is it. I mean, there was a nostalgic element there that kind of kept pushing us for more though.

Speaker 7: There was and that was the first time I'd ever use an eight string And honestly, I love album front 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 no one would like unless you're does anyone well, let me ask the question this way, does anyone ever figure out, like, does anyone ever say to you, hey, I listened to this EP or I listened to this album and then they start talking to you like they like they got it, 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 if anyone's ever come up with you and said, yeah, I like that, I like that legend of Zelda.

Speaker 7: You know, if somebody really looked at it and listened, yeah, that was a fan of the game, they would know. Yeah, like I did that on purpose. We separated it just enough that I wasn't we weren't calling the songs exactly what it was.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So like if you didn't know, you're like, oh, here's a zolda, right, But if you looked at it and you were a fan and you listened, you would figure it out.

Speaker 6: That's pretty cool though, Yeah, So that must be. So if somebody does actually approach you and say, you know, I identifies that they at least have some idea. That must be pretty gratifying, right, because it's like, Wow, they really paid attention and and you know that's validating.

Speaker 9: It really is. And I mean the writing was coming from a nostalgic perspective of playing through that game, yeah, and like kind of where my head was at as a child. Yeah, and so that made it fun. So yeah, I added a whole another element.

Speaker 6: And Zelda's kind of multi generational too, so yeah, so that has a broad appeal. That's really cool. And then so what's kind of the future trajectory, like do you guys have because your musical output already for is pretty broad for a relatively short period of times. I assume you're always writing, right, Oh.

Speaker 7: Yeah, we already have eleven songs ready for new no kidding, yeah, 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 very cool, very cool?

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Does that change the sound with a live drummer, like, like, is it or does it change your how you guys write these?

Speaker 9: Are it changes the feel?

Speaker 6: Yeah?

Speaker 7: You can sure it can because he can interpret. So when I say I do I do everything, I don't actually do it. I make the songs start to finish. The guitar is the bass, the keyboards, what I'm thinking for drums, and I have to put them in there. For Jake because it doesn't sound like a song. He has trouble like where it starts, where it ends, So I put them. I put them in there, and.

Speaker 6: For some of these can tell you guys have known 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. There's no live drums at all. Yeah, and that's just what I thought went there. So what I like about having a live drummer and Brian's cool for it is I have them there, but I'll bounce him one with no drums and let him cook. Yeah, but we have the one aside. Yeah, so we know what's supposed to be happening, and then we can let him do it and have the conversation. And sometimes he feels a section completely different than I do, which is great. Yeah, but we have that extra level of conversation piece of what we're doing.

Speaker 9: Yeah, it's almost nice to have that cookie cutter drum build and then do what I want with it, and then hear his take and be able to adjust what I've done to cater today more.

Speaker 6: Yeah, that makes sense. But it's also a little bit of an unconventional approach. You know, you don't usually hear you know, usually it's you know, the drums are already there when you're or a scratch track of a demo. But but but it's interesting that you're writing lyrics influence 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 many like what was your first instrument? Because you obviously 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 chili peppers in high school. My mom was at work 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 got a keyboard, like one of those couple hundred dollars ones with all the different noises. Ye, yep, I've always been into Romstein, so that was like I had to go there next. Yeah, and keyboard stuff. Yeah, and then I got a guitar because you can complete bass, you can kind of play guitar.

Speaker 8: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So a lot of this sounds like Romstein because like I'm not I'm not a Damien shout out. I'm not like a guitar virtuoso. Yeah, I'm playing power chords and sure, but like, if you can do one, you can do 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. So so every all all that is you and then all the vocal and then Jake, are you the only 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 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 recording them yet?

Speaker 7: Or where where we do it ourselves? I generally there's only two versions, Like, we make a demo which is honestly radio quality, yeah, and then I do a mastered version with everyone's final takes and mixes and levels, and.

Speaker 6: So you do you do the mastering too. Wow, you 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 put under our belt used down the road, it makes it that much more valuable to do it ourselves and learn that one hundred Yeah. I mean it's a time sink for sure, but it's worth it at the end of the day.

Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. No, that's great, that's great. And then you you probably don't know right at this point, 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, so yeah.

Speaker 7: And uh, chemical we wrote entirely in one day. Yeah, so that's not saying it's not going to be done next week.

Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it really the mood could hit me and I could, you know, go in and knock out 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, And I'm always switching up my ideas every time I go back and listen to a drummer's track.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, but based on what you said earlier, we go on what his idea is, and then I'll build off of that.

Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah, So probably some sometime in twenty six, I would assume the new one, probably early twenty five, early twenty six.

Speaker 7: Yeah, we're doing the show in November. We have our 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 do more of like a I don't know. I keep having the show in my head. Is h People didn't know it was nine Inch Nails, but I think it was like six or seven where they just sent like flyers to certain people. Yeah, and no one knew what it was, and a bunch of people showed up in 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 someone comes out and starts berating everybody in the crowd. 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 uh nine Nails starts playing. Yeah, so like I want that, like industrial tiny loud club vibes were shooting for that. So it's right now, it's us in Scarecrow. I'm trying to find a couple other bands. Okay, okay, that's the 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 early twenty six.

Speaker 6: Okay, okay, extremely cool. Well, the time goes quickly. I want to make sure we have time to get the get the last track, and because Chemical is one we didn't play yet, right right, right, So before we start to wind up, though, I want to make sure so everybody knows exactly. Well, first of all, we want to remind people about November fifteenth swarm me Fest. Where should people go online to find out, well, to keep up with everything that you guys are doing, not just swarm me Fest, but if they just want to get your 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 the place Pornhub.

Speaker 9: All right, well I'm not going to go there, but okay, 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 with Chemical in just some moments. So what should we 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 of thinking it's it's sort of relatable, like it's something that probably everybody can can relate to at some point or another.

Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going further, but it's I mean, at the end of the day, that's right, right, A good explanation, right, very good.

Speaker 6: So we're going to close out with this track with these guys check this out, and then after that, Jenny and I are going to come back and wrap up. Got a couple of things to tell you about. But guys, thank you again so much. It's wonderful to meet all three of you, and I love your sound and we'll definitely do this in the future and really looking forward to seeing you on November fifteenth. Thank you, that's gonna be amazing. Absolutely, but check this out. This is Temptress and the track is chemical.

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