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Musical Deception With SIANA DAVIS From KRAVE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name's Siana and I'm from the band Crave. I sing and play bass,
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  and we've got a brand new single coming out called Charade. It is
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  such an epic one. It's a new kind of sound for Crave. It
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  explores lots of deep topics within the music itself, and we really are like
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  amazed with the production of this song. We think we've kind of hit a
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  whole new level as a band. So that's my plug for that one.
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  Man, Wow, you've got me excited. That's fantastic. Thanks for joining
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  us. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Chris, Oh,
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  absolute pleasure. So, as you mentioned, Crave our premier and your
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  new single Charade through Heavy this Thursday, May twenty third at five pm,
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  which is going to be your first new music in over eighteen months. So
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  how are you feeling about it. It's a a bit of pressure. It
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  is quite nervous getting back out there. You know. We've been playing so
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  many shows last year and we just have been so busy and we're like,
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  man, we really got to release a new music scene and everyone's like,
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  when's it coming, and we're like, we're writing it. It's getting there.
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  Excellent, So tell us a bit more about the song charade from a
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  musical point of view and what you're going for with it. Yeah, absolutely,
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  So what we were going for is something that I feel like resonates with
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  a lot of people. We focused mostly kind of on a lyrically based written
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  song, So the song itself is just cover so many topics about being a
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  human and just living in our society that's really you know, I can get
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  really crazy, and the song explores mental health, explores like masking and really
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  deep stuff, like to the point where people just lose themselves pretending to be
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  someone they're not playing a character that's just like not them. It's it's just
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  really highlighting the fact that we need to look out for each other and we
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  need to be a bit more unconditional with each other. So with that in
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  mind, we created kind of quite an emotionally heavy song around the lyrics and
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  the so that's something a little bit different. It's very hooky, but it's
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  slightly variant of our sort of riff catalog we have. We've got other RIFFI
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  songs coming too, but it's just something kind of reminiscent to take you about
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  a little bit. So we're coming out strong Ah. It actually raise a
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  good point there, Siada, Like you guys, you have never had songs
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  weil just star away trashy, popcorn lyrics, Like there's always something a bit
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  deeper with your songs. How much time do you spend in the writing process
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  and then fleshing out these ideas? Yeah, it can be really varied.
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  I have to tell you what, Like, Charade was actually written in thirty
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  minutes, and it was I think the reason it was written in thirty minutes
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  was because I guess when I write lyrics, I I'm already sitting in quite
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  a deep emotion and for me, it's just like channeling and journaling whatever I'm
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  feeling in that moment and pushing it into lyrics, into symbology and metal flaws.
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  And sometimes it comes out straight away and I get shocked. I'm like,
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  wow, I just wrote a song then, and that didn't take like
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  any time at all. And then there's other times where I'll flash out something
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  for like a day, and I'll leave it for a week, come back
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  and look at the lyrics and be like, mah, I might change some
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  things. But yeah, Charade was just one of those ones that just came
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  out and I was like that sounds good. I feel good with that.
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  Yeah, bloody show off. The music video is pretty epic as well,
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  Like it starts off with you having a big cheesy grin on your face and
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  being fussed over, but it gets pretty dark really quick. So in the
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  film clip, what's going on in the film clip? Yeah, So it's
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  resemblance of a character at start being just faking and masking and trying to be
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  perfect in everything they do. There's so many needs around and they just get
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  to that point. We might have all been at that point once, you
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  know, because we're humans, we get so burnt out sometimes if we don't
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  put out boundaries. And this really really symbolizes, especially at start, the
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  boundary crossing and just like that consistent lying to yourself and lying to the people
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  around you that you do and find and that yeah I can I can handle
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  this, and I can take on this and this and this and it just
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  gets too much. And basically the music video it just like warps into this
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  really dark element, like this great juxtaposition from this masking, happy, perfect
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  person on the outside and then their internal world absolutely crumbling around them. And
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  then the reality is that internal world starts to come visible on the external out
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  towards everyone that they know, and they start falling apart, and it just
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  basically shows that we can't hold a mask forever because we could get really toxic,
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  and it just it was amazing to be in the video and direct that
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  video and to have such a great team around to make that vision come to
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  life. It was definitely one of the best videos I think we've done so
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  far. And like we diy things still, we'd love to one day work
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  with like you know, continue to enhance our performances and connects more with the
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  creative team, but we're really happy with what we've done, you know,
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  just the three of us a couple. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you
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  sort of touched on this before, but I watched elaborate a bit for us,
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  Like the project says that that the band has elevated their sound to a
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  whole new level on charade, Like he's sort of you mentioned it briefly before,
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  but in what ways? Yeah, So, I feel like specifically with
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  this song, we've really digged into a lot of producing and production side that
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  we haven't done before with previous songs, really figured out like nuanced atmosphere and
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  putting in a lot more emotions with different instruments, So we've got like things
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  such as like very quiet sort of like since strings and a little bit of
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  ambience, and man, it fills out this song so much. It gives
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  it this beautiful depth that I feel like we haven't captured in our other songs
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  like we could have, but we were just you know, starting out,
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  and we were very new to this this music game. So I think that's
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  what's kind of enhanced up a lot. And the vocals are really like,
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  you know, pretty good. I say, like, we're very happy with
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  the range of it. And we've introduced seven string guitar as well. It
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  sounds so it's getting heavier a little bit. So, as we said before,
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  like eight months since your last song came out, So what's changed with
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  Crave as a band in that time from the last single of this one?
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  Yeah, I feel like in the past eighteen months we've been I guess,
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  really refining who we are as people and actually what we would like to do
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  with our art. We've had time to reflect on how we want to present
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  ourselves out to our fan base and actually like who we really want to capture
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  with our music. I feel like we just put it out there because we're
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  like, anyone can listen to this, and you know, we still feel
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  similar. But yeah, through this eighteen months playing to different audiences and really
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  figuring out from other bands we've played with, like the big Supports, we've
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  done what we want and who we are as a band a lot more where
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  we've realized we can absolutely, I guess, brand ourselves a lot more towards
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  I guess a bit more of the depth of our music, and I think
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  we're sort of changing with sort of we're still like resemblance of like I guess,
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  some of the music that was produced, you know, quite a few
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  years ago, but we're trying to sort of modernize our image a bit more
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  and present a bit more to like a younger audience as well as an older
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  audience. So I think a lot of that's changed, and we've really defined
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  into you know, mental health based kind of music and music for anyone that's
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  that's struggling or can relate to a lot of the lyrics and the emotional heaviness
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  of our catalog now these days. So I feel like that's what's happened.
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  It just took us a while to figure figure out what we really wanted,
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  and we appreciate being unique in the sense that every song doesn't sound exactly the
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  same. But I think we've definitely sound where we sit now a lot more.
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  Yeah, damn straight Now, the big question is is Charade a standalone
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  single or is it part of a bigger album or EP. Picture. Yeah,
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  it's actually a part of something a bit bigger. We are. We
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  haven't enough tracks for a new EP. It's pretty exciting. It's definitely gonna
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  launch us back out into the industry a lot more, and I think hopefully
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  we're hoping that we'll wow the audience a bit more with the quality we have,
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  and hopefully from this EP, we'd really like to push into releasing albums
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  quite soon after that. Like we're already in the process of writing new music
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  for even like a different catalog. So yeah, I'm definitely pushing ourselves a
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  lot more. Man, very good. We've spoke about Charade being a little
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  bit heavier and like a bit of a step up for you guys in terms
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  of music, So is it the other stuff you're writing, Is it further
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  in that direction or is it a bit different against Still Yeah, absolutely,
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  I feel like then we're kind of gradually getting heavier, but almost sort of
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  a bit more like commercially heavier. We're modernizing a little bit with our sound,
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  and like, I've also learned how to do a lot more screaming,
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  so that's coming into the picture a bit more, which I think a lot
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  of people have shared they're excited about. But also, yeah, capturing really
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  just earworm songs, finding like some melodic earworm and putting that into our music
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  heeps more is something that we're offering out and that's something I think people can
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  look forward to. So we, yeah, we consider a bit more like
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  in the front of people's minds and that's really where we want to be.
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  So yeah, right, you mentioned you touring before, Like you guys have
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  done a lot of touring of late, So have you actually like noticed and
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  make a difference, Like can you see that the sole for the band is
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  getting bigger more you sort of get out there and do stuff. Yeah.
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  Absolutely, Like we've had a massive audience increase to come watch our live show,
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  and we've had so much practice at figuring out what we want to give
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  people and also having the opportunity to have played quite a lot of shows,
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  which is quite old school of us. You know, we'd love playing to
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  people and connecting on a live basis, and from that, people have shared
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  what they really enjoy about us, and we've gotten so much feedback and we've
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  been like, right, yeah, cool. So we've refined our engagement and
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  how we entice people into our community and also entice people into listening to our
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  music and really feeling it. And that's it's made such a big difference.
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  Like we've just learned how to move on stage. We're very cohesive now,
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  I've learned how to engage singing while playing bass and trying to people into the
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  audience. There's been a lot more commanding going on. And yeah, our
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  audience growth, it's just people. Yeah, we've seen a lot of people
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  come. Like I think we've tripled in size with the audiences that now come
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  and see us. And especially after playing the two big supports we played Avatars
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  and Suicidal Suicidal Tendencies last year, and that's just like that's been a really
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  big thing for us. And we've had a lot of people return to see
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  us after playing the shows with them. So yeah, we're very grateful.
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  And on the subject of live shows, what have you got coming up you've
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  got to have something to cover it up. Yeah, we do. Yeah,
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  it's been killing us not playing for a little while. We're like,
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  so we're kind of trying to I guess our thing is being a little bit
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  more scarce and just you know and building up as much anticipation as possible for
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  our relaunching of music and kind of coming back with quite a big bang.
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  And we've got we've got a show coming up June first at liz Moore.
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  It's really exciting. This is where our drama grew up and it's really cool
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  played. It's interesting. We've played a couple of regional shows where and we
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  always can't say no to the ones where the towns are places we've grown up.
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  So we've played in Gimpi and that's where Ryan's grown up, our guitarist,
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  And we've played shows in Sydney in the Southern Highlands and that's where I
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  grew up. And so we've now had the opportunity to play like, oh,
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  can crave play liz Moore and we're like, yes, you know,
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  it's kind of cool, and it's like, this is where Lockie grew up,
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  this is where he's from, this is where he's grown his music journey,
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  so that's exciting. And then June eighth we have a Sunshine Coast show
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  at the Precinct that's a namble and that's going to be really fun. We've
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  got Accid Cherry joining us there such Yeah, there's such a sick female fronted
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  like all girl band that just oh, they absolutely slay. And we've got
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  quite a few other bands playing like Ancient Remains as well as joining the show.
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  And then June twentieth we've got a really special show we've joined in Brisbane
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  and I'll try and I guess lead people up to guessing it because we're not
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  announced as the support yet, but we've been confirmed and that's going to be
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  so cool. It's also with a big band, so we're really excited to
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  share when that's announced. Who are playing with. Congratulations, Yeah, thank
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  you so much, No as right, well, once as usual, being
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  an absolute pleasure speaking with you. This single Charade is out five pm on
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  May the twenty third, and she's another crash from me. Maybe it's just
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  keep on raising the bar every time. So congratulations,