Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Embracing Change With RYAN SAVITSKI From ONE STEP CLOSER

Transcript

Embracing Change With RYAN SAVITSKI From ONE STEP CLOSER · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:23
  My name's Ryan, I sing him one Step Closer. Yeah, we got
• 0:27
  a new record coming now called All You Embrace on May seventeenth. I'm super
• 0:30
  stoked about it. Yeah, the Arrian thanks for joining us today. Brother,
• 0:35
  Yeah, of course, thanks for having me. I'm super stoked to
• 0:37
  do this, honestly by pleasure bros. As you said, one Step Closer,
• 0:41
  unleash your latest album or You Embrace on May the seven eighth. But
• 0:44
  it's not far off now, might how you feeling any excited? Nervous,
• 0:47
  couldn't give a shit you feel I'm honestly nervous and super excited as well,
• 0:53
  just because you know, this is a this is kind of like a big
• 0:56
  deal record for us. I feel like the second LP is always a little
• 0:59
  scary, you know, and I feel like we've been trying to do our
• 1:03
  best to just like keep our nerves and just keep everything, keep everything pushing.
• 1:07
  You know. We're we're super excited to finally put it out right.
• 1:10
  So can you tell us more about All Your Embrace from a musical point of
• 1:12
  view and what you were going forward with it? Yeah? Sure, I
• 1:15
  mean pretty much, we were just trying to expand our sound from what it
• 1:19
  already has been. We were trying to be a little bit more melodic and
• 1:23
  just kind of push you know, at least the stinging aspects of the band
• 1:27
  even more, and we've I feel like we've always been more of a melodic
• 1:32
  band and more kind of like, I don't know, we're a lot of
• 1:36
  hardcore band, you know what I mean. So it's always been sick to
• 1:38
  just like kind of push that even more on every release that we've done.
• 1:42
  And for this one, I think we were really just trying to be limitless
• 1:47
  and just not hold ourselves back. Very cool, and you released the singles
• 1:51
  orange Leaf, Leap EA's, and Grants to Spare so far mate, so
• 1:55
  all would you say they're a good sonic representation of what do expect from the
• 1:57
  album? Yeah, feel like it's a little bit of everything. Honestly,
• 2:01
  We've put out like I think we've done like you know, Leap Ears,
• 2:06
  which is a faster song, and then we've done Giants of Spare, which
• 2:09
  is a little bit of a slower song, and then we did orange Leaf
• 2:13
  now, which is a little bit more of just like kind of just a
• 2:15
  rocker, you know what I mean. It's like a little bit of everything.
• 2:20
  And uh, I think sonically it gives a good representation of like the
• 2:24
  flow of the record because we got a little bit of everything throughout the whole
• 2:28
  record. We have some slow songs, we have some fast ones, and
• 2:30
  uh, you know, we kind of did that intentionally just to like give
• 2:35
  a good sonic listening experience through the record, you know. Yeah, And
• 2:38
  in the modern age of music, Mate Loved, there's so many things changing,
• 2:42
  like with the song with with everything from die pretty much. But in
• 2:46
  the modern age, like, is there a set criteria when it comes to
• 2:47
  looking at singles that your release, Like do you pick your three best ones?
• 2:51
  Do you pick the ones that are gonna cover everything? Like is it
• 2:53
  throw dot or dopboard and see what comes out? I think sometimes it's it's
• 2:59
  not only the ones that, like, you know, we think that will
• 3:02
  do well. But I think a lot of it comes down to us just
• 3:06
  being confident within within a certain you know, group of songs or something like
• 3:09
  that, because you know, our management and like record label, we're kind
• 3:14
  of pushing for some songs that I really didn't even think that we were like
• 3:17
  considering as singles, you know what I mean, Like we all kind of
• 3:21
  came to the conclusion that Leap Years would be a good song just because we
• 3:23
  put it out on the Leap Day and it kind of just like made sense
• 3:29
  for that time, and it was a song that wasn't too sonically different.
• 3:32
  But then we really wanted Giants Spare as a single just because we felt so
• 3:37
  connected to that song, and uh, they were kind of like, oh,
• 3:42
  like you know, we're kind of down with whatever you want to do,
• 3:44
  but we were kind of thinking a different song, and we pushed for
• 3:46
  Giants and I'm really happy that we did, because I feel like that song
• 3:51
  really resonated with a lot of people. And yeah, so it's a little
• 3:54
  bit of everything. You know, you got to take into consideration, like
• 3:57
  what songs you think will do well, but also you got you kind of
• 4:00
  got to follow your gut a little bit on like, you know, if
• 4:02
  something immediately clicks in your head, like when you're recording and you're like,
• 4:05
  Yo, this needs to be a single, that's what you got to do.
• 4:08
  You know. Yeah, fair cool. Now we governed that a little
• 4:11
  bit deeper, Brian Like. The press release says that the single offer a
• 4:14
  glimpse of the band's evolution. On All You Embrace Would you agree with that?
• 4:17
  Would you agree that they're showing bright specifically? Yeah, I definitely agree.
• 4:24
  I feel like we uh, I feel like this record is a big
• 4:28
  sonic leap for us in a way, but also like is has a lot
• 4:32
  of familiar familiar I can't even isn't it? Yeah, the mill familiarities,
• 4:41
  you know what I'm saying. Familiarity. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to
• 4:43
  say. Yeah, it has a lot. It has a lot of that
• 4:46
  for uh, from like the old stuff, you know. So like I
• 4:49
  feel like for us, you know, I think that kind of sums it
• 4:53
  up well. Where we really did try to make sure that, like the
• 4:59
  songs that we put out weren't too much of a leap until we kind of
• 5:02
  dove into it a little bit more, especially with the first track, because
• 5:05
  like we didn't want to scare people away too soon, you know, another
• 5:11
  be counterproductive, wouldn't it. Yeah? Exactly. You gotta you gotta bring
• 5:15
  people in, you gotta get people stoked, you know. So now I'd
• 5:18
  not to say it's nice song on the album called or You and Brycebray,
• 5:21
  which suggests to me that the title's going to be great at significant Yeah,
• 5:27
  I mean this, This whole record is really like based around like kind of
• 5:31
  like life change and just change in general within the band and and different things.
• 5:35
  And uh, I feel like we kind of were just throwing so many
• 5:41
  different names out there, like for the record, just because we don't like
• 5:45
  to name records off of just song titles because it feels a little just feels
• 5:49
  a little basic to me, you know, and there's no dish to anyone
• 5:53
  that does that. Bloody lazy, that's what it is. Yeah, it
• 5:57
  feels a little lazy sometimes, right, So we wanted to up with something
• 6:00
  that really like kind of summed up the record in a hole. And we're
• 6:03
  kind of, like I said, throwing different names out there. And then
• 6:08
  I said, all you embraced just because it felt like, you know,
• 6:11
  we kind of have to either embrace these changes that are happening or I feel
• 6:15
  like you kind of kind of can send you down a spiral sometimes, you
• 6:17
  know, and like leaves your wondering like what the hell are you doing with
• 6:20
  your life? You know what I mean. So we kind of summed it
• 6:27
  up, and I feel I feel like it felt it felt like it connected
• 6:29
  with the record really well and felt like, you know, it really just
• 6:32
  brought the whole atmosphere of the record into like three words. And yeah,
• 6:38
  I'm super excited that we ended up going with that for the for the song
• 6:41
  or for the album title. Wait now I reread it quite what you said.
• 6:46
  I wanted us to be one hundred percent of ourselves, would be as
• 6:47
  authentic to our band as we could possibly be on the album. Could you
• 6:51
  elaborate on that? Yeah, of course, I mean that that's just like,
• 6:57
  that's just me at this point in my life, just being as honest
• 7:00
  and true to like what we are as people and or who we are as
• 7:04
  people, I mean, and what we are as a band. You know,
• 7:08
  this band is, like I said, always been way more melodic.
• 7:11
  And we're not a mosh band. We're not like you know, we're not
• 7:15
  like people getting getting hurt to our music kind of band. We are just
• 7:19
  a band that people, you know, want to sing along to and stage
• 7:23
  dive and do that kind of thing. And I think we fully embrace like
• 7:26
  what that is. And we just didn't hold ourselves back with that. And
• 7:30
  I feel like for a long time I felt like I kind of had to
• 7:34
  hold back, like at least like I was like afraid of singing more and
• 7:39
  yelling less. And I think we're kind of at the point in our lives
• 7:43
  and like where we are with this band where like we've been doing this band
• 7:47
  for you know, seven years now, and we want to do what we've
• 7:51
  always intended on doing, and that's kind of making music like this record.
• 7:57
  Yeah, that's speaking of the stalls of music bright like you can buy quite
• 8:01
  a few different genres to come up with the your own unique and fresh sound.
• 8:03
  But was it was it a plan coming together with musical stars when he
• 8:07
  started or did you just sort of trawl an error and just see what worked
• 8:09
  and what didn't. It feels like to me like when we were when we
• 8:15
  were in this writing process, it felt very natural. It felt like this
• 8:18
  is what the next thing that we would that we would write would be.
• 8:22
  So as we were like kind of demoing ideas and songs and different things like
• 8:26
  this, like the songs were just kind of pouring out of us at that
• 8:30
  point of just like you know, like sitting there writing writing the songs and
• 8:37
  uh, demoing out the guitar, is like this is just what was coming
• 8:41
  out. That was just what was coming out of us, and we kind
• 8:43
  of just kept rolling with it, and then once we had a big batch
• 8:46
  of songs where like, let's just dial in this exact vibe that we have
• 8:50
  right now and pick the songs that make sense and create an atmosphere for the
• 8:54
  record, and uh yeah, we ended up writing like over twenty songs and
• 8:58
  then narrowed it down to the eleven that are on the record. Cool.
• 9:01
  Now, I'm not just looking through a discography that you guys released five EPs
• 9:05
  between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, but didn't put a debut album this place,
• 9:11
  you know, until twenty twenty one. So was there a reason for
• 9:15
  focusing on EPs so much to start off with? I honestly think it was
• 9:20
  just because we were so young and we really didn't know what we were doing,
• 9:22
  honestly, Like, like the band started when I was like seventeen years
• 9:26
  old, you know, and we didn't really know how to write music.
• 9:31
  Like we were just kind of like trying our best to be a hardcore band
• 9:35
  and like write like what we thought was like, you know, melodic hardcore,
• 9:39
  but it really wasn't. It was just kind of just like like eighties
• 9:43
  nineties sounding hardcore kind of stuff. And we finally kind of like found our
• 9:48
  footing in twenty nineteen when we released From Me Tou, which was the EP
• 9:54
  that came out on Triple B Records, and that one kind of like I
• 9:58
  don't know, that was kind of our first stepping stone as a band where
• 10:01
  we were like, Okay, we wrote something that like we're actually stoked on
• 10:05
  and feels like more of what we've been trying to do, you know.
• 10:11
  And then after that we were like, Okay, I think it's time that
• 10:13
  we finally just do an LP. Yeah. Cool. So look at Breckbrian,
• 10:20
  how would you say that your music's changed you Brian from the OSC demo
• 10:24
  in twenty sixteen to ay you embrace. Oh, I mean it's it's grown
• 10:30
  tenfolded. It honestly compared to the demo, it doesn't even sound like the
• 10:33
  same band, I think, which is kind of crazy, you know,
• 10:37
  to think about that. But I mean, like I said, we were
• 10:39
  just were we were literal kids, like in high school, just trying to
• 10:43
  make a band and trying to have fun. Like we started our first band,
• 10:48
  a different band when I was like fifteen, and we were like just
• 10:54
  trying to like I said, just trying to have fun and be involved in
• 10:56
  our scene and play some shows and then and so Closer started and I was
• 11:01
  like, yeah, I think I could be a singer. Why not,
• 11:03
  you know what I mean? And then like yeah, you know, and
• 11:05
  then just kind of went from there with it, and uh yeah, it's
• 11:09
  it's it's honestly amazing to look back and see where we started to where we
• 11:13
  are now, because I think us as people and like us as musicians have
• 11:18
  just grown so much and I'm really proud of us. Honestly, Hey,
• 11:22
  good for you, brother. Now what's next for One Step Close? Tonight
• 11:26
  on the album comes out, I can imagine they're gonna have you busy as
• 11:28
  fuck for a few months. Oh yeah, very very busy. Yeah,
• 11:31
  we uh were. We just announced our record relief show today. Actually we're
• 11:37
  gonna do a home show for the first time in a long time. And
• 11:41
  then we have a tour announced that's coming out on Monday for a summer tour
• 11:46
  that we're doing in the States. But before that, we're going to Europe
• 11:50
  for three weeks. And then uh, we have a fall tour that's being
• 11:54
  planned, and then we got some more overseas stuff and then we might come
• 12:01
  back to Australia. Positively, like there's there's just so much stuff you know,
• 12:05
  in the air right now. But now that the record's almost out,
• 12:09
  it's like, this is the exciting time we get to light tour and play
• 12:13
  on on the new songs and finally, like you know, create like a
• 12:16
  fun new setlist to play for people. You up, brother, Well,
• 12:18
  thanks very much for your time that I write. It's made a pleasure spaking
• 12:22
  with you. The album All You Embrace is out in by seven eighth and
• 12:24
  I had to listen to it while I was writing the Questions out this morning.
• 12:26
  Bro. It's a very very well not album. I have had a
• 12:28
  little a little sort of have some flies in it, but I've rolled it.
• 12:31
  It's just it's us well done. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah,
• 12:35
  we tried. We really tried to make it have like a you know,
• 12:39
  there's like leaps and values in it in it and have some slow stuff,
• 12:43
  half fast and you know, a little bit of everything. So it's just
• 12:45
  like a more fun listening experience for people. You know, hopefully it keeps
• 12:48
  people engaged a whole time. I got our very short attention span, brother,
• 12:52
  and I kept it going to a little day to the end. So
• 12:54
  you've done something right awesome, Yeah, thank you man, I appreciate that.
• 12:58
  All right? Or brother, hopefully when you come back to a radio
• 13:01
  will catch up and via Yeah, let's do it. I'm down play like
• 13:33
  to mess. We're not wait too long? Auster fun something. You don't
• 13:43
  have to spend distraction When I got that thanks good, be safer so so
• 14:00
  can make me forget how I've been God we missed the tresco go go son't
• 14:11
  try and tell me to friend when I'm back in can you'll feel the stress?
• 14:16
  What so sat at a time of god ride? I said it thou
• 14:26
  a time that what they said that I'm as a fallows j What have I
• 14:39
  got tack? Jump on and go try You'm trying to jot. You don't
• 14:46
  have to s distraction when out that things good means so talk can make me
• 14:58
  forgett how I've been calling me miss the stretes go go So I'm trying to
• 15:09
  tell me to friends when I'm back and tell your film the streets cone,
• 15:18
  sir, mister Jack John, start sell the job, tell a bus John,
• 15:30
  sun up, say lunch. I just find outcome start a plan out