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A Musical Novel With CARLOS & TOM From PARK RD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, we're park Road Carlos and Tom and we are just about to release
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  our debut album, The Novel, probably released by now actually and yeah,
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  we're park Road five piece band. We've got Angus who plays the guitar,
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  Leo who plays guitar and vocals, and t K also who plays the drums
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  who aren't here. Thanks for having us no oh boys, thanks for joining
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  us today. Oh effect to be here. As you say, boys,
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  Park Road will be releasing your debut album, The Novel This I made the
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  twenty four. So how you feel like? He's excited, nervous, anxious,
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  all of the above, anxious to get it out. It's been a
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  long time coming, so I think we're all pretty anxious just to have it
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  out there and show everyone. So what structual your mindset like going into a
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  debut album, Like you put all your best stuff on there and throw it
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  out. You're sort of a bit more thoughtful about it. You want to
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  showcase different sides of a band, Like is there a thought process? I
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  don't know it all. Sort of I feel like our process is quite like
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  fluid. It's sort of like it just sort of we just write the songs
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  and it just sort of texts on its own sort of characteristics and it sort
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  of just ended up being what it is. There wasn't there was a thought
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  process, but it wasn't like we want to do this like exactly. It
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  was like, you know, we'll do what we want to do and then
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  put the pieces together. Yeah, pretto much pressure on yourselves, which is
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  a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of felt like the songs
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  weren't. It wasn't like a concept album. It kind of just like the
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  songs came came up and like we just kind of yeah, went along and
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  they came out the right time and trusting the process kind of thing. The
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  lover when they're playing works done. Yet, I do feel like the track
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  listing and stuff does make for quite a like quite the experience. It's sort
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  of even though they weren't really meant to be, like, you know,
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  like a concept album whatever, I think we found a way to link them
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  all together in a way that makes sense. So tell us a more about
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  the album from a musical point of view and what you're going for with it.
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  Mhmm. It's sort of just the a combination of everything that we've been
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  doing previously. To be honest with the inclusion of some some new influences,
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  but you know, rock and like aspects of pop and stuff. Yeah,
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  lots of different stuff as cool. You've released the singles every Night, Save
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  the Planet, Secrets, Ride and called me up. So would you say
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  that they are a good sonic representation of what do you expect? Or are
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  they just scratching the surface. There's definitely a bit of a different kind of
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  vibe and the ones that haven't been released, I think there's probably a few
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  more of slower ones or sad songs, little bit more intimate ones which didn't
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  really feel like singles. And yeah, there's there's definitely some new sounds which
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  we haven't really like explored yet on the unreleased ones, which I'm excited for
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  people to hear. Hopefully they resonate with some sort of capacity. But yeah,
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  definitely a bit of a bit of a bunch of different kind of vibes
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  throughout the album, not just kind of one one sort of sound or one
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  sort of style. Okay, can you collaborate on that big first pay?
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  Like you said, the other songs that haven't been released have got a bit
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  of a different vibe in a different field. So now so like how are
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  they different. Well, there's one song which is kind of like just super
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  stripped back kind of just guitar. There's a couple of those kind of with
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  a bit of bass and just real kind of one. Yeah, I just
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  wrote in my room and it was kind of like during the Aucland floods.
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  And then there's one called Tonight I, which is a bit more how would
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  you describe Tonight I. Tonight I is probably it's probably closest to Secrets in
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  terms of like musical content. Yeah, but I'm excited for people to hear
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  that one. Yeah. And then there's one that like we started out kind
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  of adding instruments how we normally kind of do it, and then we ended
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  up kind of just stripping everything back and Leo just went crazy on like the
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  production side of things, and so it ended up sounding like a completely different
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  song. And that's the title track the novel, which I think is really
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  cool. Yeah, it's basically like ambient all the way through and then something
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  happens in the end. Well, we like it when something happens that The
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  press release says that the songs on the album are reminiscent of early the nineteen
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  seventy five and Spacey Jane, So can you like write on that, Like,
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  how are they similar? I'd say in terms of like the some of
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  the guitar like melodies and some of the songwriting in terms of the nineteen seventy
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  five And I think after we went on tour with Spacy Jane, and I
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  think just like this songwriting is like super beautiful and simple, and I think
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  we got really inspired by that, and just kind of how the instruments sound,
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  you know, like really tasteful layers, and the guitar is kind of
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  like not just going the whole time, having a bit more like yeah direction
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  and like ful us to the not not having anything against the crashing guitars.
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  They're great too. There's only so much of it. You can take this
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  together to put the pressure on you bit boys. But I know this is
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  only your debut album, but I have just given any thought to how your
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  music's going to progress in the future, like you sort of have you got
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  an idea where you want to go or are you just taking things as they
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  come. Well, we've kind of started making some new stuff for album two,
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  so I guess that's something that we have been thinking about a little bit.
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  I feel like this debut album feels quite like the first. It feels
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  like it feels like a debut album where everything's really fresh and like quite almost
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  innocent in some ways. And I think maybe the album too, like having
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  a bit more maturity on the I think Album two will definitely be a bit
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  more mature and probably a bit more complex as you would expect from a second
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  album. Yeah, but I feel like also a lot of it is still
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  in the unknown and waiting to be figured out or found or somebody shut up
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  in mind my own business. You can focus on this debut album now,
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  you don't want tok too far in the future. Park Road toured Australia for
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  the first time last year as part of the s x s W Sydney Festival.
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  So how to have we received every the how the crowd get into it?
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  It was? It was a bit of a weird one because it's it's
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  like it's not quite like your typical it's like a industry sort of showcase thing.
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  Okay, it was like a lot of like showcasing too, like industry
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  professionals and that sort of thing. So the crowds were usually like quite small
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  and like sort of like hand picked pretty much, right. We haven't really
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  had the authentic touring experience in Australia yet, but in saying that we'll be
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  going over there in like a week or something, so yeah, next Thursday.
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  Yeah you are indeed, or that was my next person. You're coming
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  back with the Ryon's and Blusher later this month, starting in Melbourne the thirty
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  first of May and then you go through Hobart, Adelaide and Brisbane. Have
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  finished Sydney on June the fifteenth, So tell us a bit about those shows
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  and what people can expect from Park Roade over here. I think yeah,
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  Like like Carlos Will, were just excited to get in front of some proper,
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  uzzy crowds, and I feel like it's kind of cool because we're first
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  up on the bill, so kind of got nothing to lose. Just gonna
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  go over there and hopefully smash it and just give it, have a good
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  time, and yeah, hopefully be able to come back soon. Just demand
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  that you come back, mate, put the hopefully out and just say we're
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  fucking coming back, whether you like it or not. That's good advice.
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  Oh right, God's well, thanks very much for your time today. It's
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  been a pleasure chat with you. Their debut album, The Novel, is
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  out this Friday, May the twenty fourth. The Boys will be over here
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  from May to thirty first, so check out their socials, check out their
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  music, and give them a big Aussie welcome when they get here. Sixty
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  hair put on Thursday. You'll get ready for the shut do your Dunstan Brown
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  in your bedroom. You get the feeling done here, coming up to come
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  up. Let's to come me up, coming up, coming up, oach,
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  coming up to come me up, Come up. You're pop star.
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  Do what you wanna the queen right Madonna on your breathing the fresh air,
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  what like you don't care when I see you come to stay. Let's see
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  what in they are so much, so much see like seget s coming come
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  up, come come coming up U