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Stoking The Fires With KEVIN ASHBY From CRY WOLF · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name's Keiv.
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  Speaker 2: I am the singer and guitarists and cry Wolf and
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  Speaker 2: we've also got Josh on guitar and he does backing
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  Speaker 2: vocals as well, and then we've got Nick on bass
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  Speaker 2: and James on the drums. So this single, Burn is
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  Speaker 2: our second single. We released our debut single a couple
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  Speaker 2: of months ago and had a pretty good response with that,
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  Speaker 2: so we're super excited to get this one out. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty much just talking about getting rid of the old
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  Speaker 2: and starting something new, seeing how it goes, hoping for the.
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  Speaker 3: Best fantasy indible. That sort of fits in with the
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  Speaker 3: whole theme, doesn't it. Thanks for joining to Snake, keV.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you say, croy Wall released your second single,
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  Speaker 3: Burn on October at thirteen. So how do you feel
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  Speaker 3: about it, mate, You're relieved, You're excited, You're nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always exciting to release new music.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's always a pretty long time between when
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  Speaker 2: you write the song and then you actually release it,
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  Speaker 2: so it's always good to get it out in the
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  Speaker 2: world and kind of get people's opinion on it and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So what people think about it?
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  Speaker 3: But people say that until they do get people's opinion
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  Speaker 3: on it, and then they say, shit, I wish I
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  Speaker 3: had an HD.
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  Speaker 1: Fingers crossed, not too much of that.
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  Speaker 3: So can you tell us a bit more about the
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  Speaker 3: song from a musical point of view than what you're
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  Speaker 3: going for.
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  Speaker 2: With it, going for something like pretty heavy but still accessible.
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  Speaker 2: I tend to write songs that are relatively simple. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to make it too difficult for ourselves to
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  Speaker 2: play it and stuff like that, so try to try
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  Speaker 2: to keep it, keep it simple, but keep it catchy
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  Speaker 2: as well and nice and heavy, but still retaining that
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  Speaker 2: melodic kind of element that's kind of kind of what
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  Speaker 2: we go for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, cool. It's a really cool song, mate, Like
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  Speaker 3: we were talking about this earlier. But it starts with
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  Speaker 3: a soft, almost dreamy sort of intro. Then there's a
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  Speaker 3: brief pause and then all payout brains. While I was
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  Speaker 3: a thought process find that, I got to admit, you
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  Speaker 3: trick me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like to lull people into a false sense
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  Speaker 2: of security. And it's always good. Maybe that I'll turn
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  Speaker 2: it up a little bit at the start and then
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  Speaker 2: I'll just get absolutely blasted when it hits.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a bit of fun.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I definitely like playing around with the kind
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  Speaker 2: of light and shade sort of stuff, like add some
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  Speaker 2: dynamics in there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it keeps it keeps it interesting. It will
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  Speaker 1: be trip.
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  Speaker 3: What's the actual process like coming up with that for
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  Speaker 3: a song? Like I said, we just listened to that
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  Speaker 3: and go, that's pretty cool. But you must go through
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  Speaker 3: a few different different sounds and different things that you
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  Speaker 3: try to see which one actually works.
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  Speaker 1: How hard is it fun the right one? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's different every time.
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes a song will just completely fall into place
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  Speaker 2: without too much effort, and then other times you kind
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  Speaker 2: of have to work it a little bit more. But
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  Speaker 2: generally ILL start off with the main riff. So when
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  Speaker 2: that first riff tacks in, that was the first rift
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  Speaker 2: that I started off, and then kind of just build
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  Speaker 2: it around that. So yeah, I wanted to have some
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  Speaker 2: kind of quieter intro, so yeah, I worked on that
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  Speaker 2: after coming up with the main riff, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then just like trying trying different stuff for the verse.
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  Speaker 2: I actually tried a whole lot of different ideas for
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  Speaker 2: the verse, like overly complicated it massively, and the end
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  Speaker 2: just just stripped it back and had it a lot
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  Speaker 2: more simple, and I think it worked out pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes simple is best say, especially when it comes to music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you toughed on this before, but it's pretty deep lyrically
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  Speaker 3: about shedding the past and embracing the unknown. But you
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  Speaker 3: elaborate on little bit more for us. Is it anything specific?
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  Speaker 1: It kind of is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I was in a band previously called Swerve City,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a little bit of a tongue and cheap
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  Speaker 2: reference to the city.
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  Speaker 1: So it's talking about burning the city down stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's basically just about how that band finished up,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, starting something new from the from the ashes
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  Speaker 2: of that basically. And then yeah, it's like basically talking
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  Speaker 2: about aiming, aiming high, aim for the sun. But you
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  Speaker 2: never know what's going to happen, whether you whether you'll
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  Speaker 2: succeed or whether you'll crash and burn. But at least
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  Speaker 2: we're going to try actually.
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  Speaker 3: Put your sunscreen on if you're aim into the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How would you say that Burn differs musically to your
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  Speaker 3: debut single, Rainfall.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's a little bit mm hmm, a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a darker feel. Maybe that the Rainfall, the debut single,
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  Speaker 2: was pretty Upbeat just got that faster tempo and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, and maybe slightly more of a poppy tinge
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think Burn is a bit bit heavier but darker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not quite so so Upbeat yeh.
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  Speaker 3: No, are they standalone singles?
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  Speaker 1: Are they part of a bigger EP or album? Picture
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  Speaker 1: most likely going to be an EP.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a few songs ready to go for the EP,
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  Speaker 2: so we're just kind of we're still discussing whether we
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  Speaker 2: push on and do a few more songs and turn
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  Speaker 2: it into an album or whether we just do an
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  Speaker 2: EP and then and then work on an album after that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's definitely going to be part of something,
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  Speaker 2: but whether it's an EP or an album, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of get to be seen, get to be decided.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned that burns a little bit darker than Rainfall,
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  Speaker 3: and the press release says that it's a heavier, more
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  Speaker 3: intense song. So what's what's the overall sound and feel
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  Speaker 3: of the band. Is it more like Burn or is
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  Speaker 3: it more like Rainfall?
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm?
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  Speaker 2: Probably more like Burn, I would say, but yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: try to we have we have a lane like this
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  Speaker 2: and then we do some songs on the side. Of
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  Speaker 2: the lane, some songs on the side of the lane,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a bit of a range there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: i'd say Burn is probably more more along the lines
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  Speaker 2: of the core sound here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And how difficult is it as a band, Like
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  Speaker 3: this is your second single, so when you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: decide what songs to release out there to give people
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  Speaker 3: an idea of the band and get your name out there, Like,
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  Speaker 3: what's the thought process behind that? Like, say, the first
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  Speaker 3: one is a little bit bit lighter, second one is
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  Speaker 3: a bit darker, Like is that a strategic thing to
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  Speaker 3: show people different sides of the band or is it
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  Speaker 3: more what do you think is a better song?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a bit of strategic thinking comes into it,
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  Speaker 2: Like you want to give people a good sense of
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  Speaker 2: what you're about. So we kind of were tossing up
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  Speaker 2: between Rainfall and Burn which one was going to go first,
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  Speaker 2: and we ended up going with Rainfall first because the
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  Speaker 2: chorus on that.
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  Speaker 1: Is pretty catchy, It's got.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a good hook, so and being slightly on the
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  Speaker 2: poppier side, it's maybe a little bit more accessible to
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  Speaker 2: more people, So we thought that would probably be a
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  Speaker 2: better one to come out with first, and then followed
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  Speaker 2: up with something a bit bit heavier and a bit
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  Speaker 2: more maybe closer to our sound.
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  Speaker 3: Nice now tribal features members. About the band, you would
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  Speaker 3: say before there's far a Will, there's Swerve City, Corritian
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  Speaker 3: and sun God. So how much of each band sound
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  Speaker 3: did you bring to cry Wolf or was it a
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  Speaker 3: completely different venture?
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty pretty new, pretty different benure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So originally I was intending on Swerve City continuing
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  Speaker 2: because our singer from Swerve City left and then I
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  Speaker 2: took over as the singer, and then I tried to
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  Speaker 2: get a few more guys on to replace a couple
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  Speaker 2: of the other members, and then it just ended up
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  Speaker 2: sounding like a completely new band because new new vocals
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  Speaker 2: changes the sound a lot. So yeah, it just sounded
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  Speaker 2: like a new band. So we decided to rebrand as
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  Speaker 2: a new new band. But these early songs mostly ridden
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  Speaker 2: by myself, so it's mainly just my influence so far,
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  Speaker 2: with a little bit of flavor from the other guys
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  Speaker 2: on top. But going forward, it's definitely going to be
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  Speaker 2: a more collaborative approach to writing songs. So yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 2: definitely get some more of the other guys influences in there,
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  Speaker 2: which would be cool, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then you speak about it, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: bit more collaborative moving forward. So have you actually sat
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  Speaker 3: down and discussed what direction you're going to go in
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  Speaker 3: sonically or are you just sort of letting it come naturally.
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  Speaker 2: We got heaps of like bits and pieces of songs
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  Speaker 2: and demos and stuff like that. Like all of us
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  Speaker 2: together have got different bits and pieces that we've got.
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  Speaker 1: In the bank.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll start to pull out a couple of those
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  Speaker 2: and just work on them together. But yeah, definitely definitely
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  Speaker 2: wanted to just come naturally, Like you don't really want
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  Speaker 2: to be forcing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's heaps of stuff to work on.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll just take take little bits that we have
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  Speaker 2: here and there and develop them into new songs and
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  Speaker 2: see what comes out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's another line in your press release talking about the
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  Speaker 3: band coming together with his shared vision, and it said
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  Speaker 3: that you want to create something bold, threshed and emotionally resonant.
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  Speaker 3: Like do you think you've achieved that yet still or
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  Speaker 3: or you still a work in progress?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're we're well on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in terms of the New Zealand scene,
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  Speaker 2: where we're from. There's not really another band that sounds
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  Speaker 2: quite like us, So I think we've got our own
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  Speaker 2: space in this scene.
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  Speaker 1: Which is quite cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're kind of on the heavier side of radio
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff, but not too heavy that that your
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  Speaker 2: mum can't listen to it kind of things.
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  Speaker 3: So what is the rest of twenty twenty five into
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six to look like for Privolf? Maybe got
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  Speaker 3: tours planned shows?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got a couple of shows lined up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're playing with some pretty cool bands in the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: And at the moment, we're not really booking our own shows.
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  Speaker 2: We're just jumping on other people shows just makes life
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  Speaker 2: easier for us. And we're still still trying to build
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a following and.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But early next year we're looking at doing more of
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  Speaker 2: our own stuff, get a couple of tours going and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, and yeah, just continue writing. Got lots
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  Speaker 2: of ideas bloody around that we need to pull together.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, just writing new music and playing shows.
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  Speaker 1: That's the plan.
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  Speaker 3: Fantasy Kevil. Thanks very much for your time, bro, it's
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  Speaker 3: been a pleasure speaking with you. Burn is out October thirty,
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  Speaker 3: but it's premiering via Heavy at nine pm on October twelve.
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  Speaker 3: That's Australian time, kids, and here the crack of the
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  Speaker 3: song goes. You won me over with it straight away,
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  Speaker 3: so best I can. Where can people find out more
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  Speaker 3: about the band or pre order a copy of your music?
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  Speaker 1: Cool?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can check us out on any social media,
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  Speaker 2: but Instagram is probably our main one, so you can
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  Speaker 2: find us at cry Wolf band and z and that's
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  Speaker 2: where you all keep up to date with everything that
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  Speaker 2: we've got going on. But yeah, thanks so much for
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  Speaker 2: talking to me. I really appreciate it, and thanks for
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  Speaker 2: all the support