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Sonic Experiments With STEPHEN & ARIC From HOUSE OF PROTECTION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: What's up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Eric, I'm Steven and we are from the band
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  Speaker 1: House of Protection.
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  Speaker 3: We are on tour with Poppy and bad Omens and
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  Speaker 3: it's dope.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, gentlemen, thanks for joining us today. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: no good to be here, as you.
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  Speaker 2: Say, House of Protection in Australia right now for Runham
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  Speaker 2: shows with bad Omens.
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  Speaker 4: So how you feel about the shows?
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine to see me your first trip playing
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  Speaker 2: here as this band.
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  Speaker 1: It's been awesome so far. Honestly, we didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: what to expect, especially walking up because bad Omens audience
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  Speaker 1: looks very much like a bad Omen's audience, like they
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  Speaker 1: are there for that band. But they've been really receptive.
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  Speaker 1: And it's cool to be on such an eclectic tour
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  Speaker 1: because it doesn't feel competitive. It just feels like everybody's
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  Speaker 1: expressing themselves, honestly, and that's always a cool situation to
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  Speaker 1: walk into.
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  Speaker 2: So people here, I wouldn't not have seen this band
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  Speaker 2: live before, so describe to a certificate line upset.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've only played a few shows, so we're still
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  Speaker 3: kind of figuring that out too. But one thing you
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  Speaker 3: can definitely rest assured about is we you know, we
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  Speaker 3: come with the energy, We come with positive vibes. We
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  Speaker 3: want people to not feel like you have to you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a very eclectic experience, you know, like it
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  Speaker 3: gets heavy, it's biby, it's dancy, you know, like it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of different things. So I hope that
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  Speaker 3: that brings a lot of different people, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: it's but I think the the core thing that connects
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  Speaker 3: all that is just high energy, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, right, Yeah, But I was unfamiliar with the band,
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  Speaker 2: but I some of you it's formed out to leave
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  Speaker 2: it a fab three three three. But tell us a
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  Speaker 2: bit more about how it came about, Like how did
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  Speaker 2: this project come about?
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  Speaker 1: Me and Steve had jammed to get there for a
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  Speaker 1: long time while we were in Fever, and there's just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of music we were writing that like wasn't
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  Speaker 1: making it for that for one reason or another. So
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  Speaker 1: when we decided that our time was up in that band,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt like the natural next step was to
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  Speaker 1: do something together. So about a week after we quit,
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  Speaker 1: I had gone to get married, and then me and
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  Speaker 1: my wife eloped in Europe, and then when I got back,
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  Speaker 1: we immediately started writing with the guitarist of my other band,
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  Speaker 1: Night Versus, and wrote its Supposed to Hurt, and then
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  Speaker 1: from that we met up with Jordan and he produced
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the EP with us.
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  Speaker 2: You're both share vocal gen is in this, so is
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  Speaker 2: that the first time either of you have actually had
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  Speaker 2: that role of lead vocalists?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we never even tried it. It's it's fun to
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  Speaker 1: do it with with your best friend at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about sounding worse than
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  Speaker 1: the other one. You just kind of figured it out together.
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  Speaker 4: Straight up, how did you guy? The first few times?
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  Speaker 2: I like you it must have been nerve ra like
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  Speaker 2: it as much fun as it is, it's gotta gotta
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  Speaker 2: be nervy, it is, but.
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  Speaker 1: To get on stage and sync. Yeah yeah, But like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Also, there's a certain point in
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  Speaker 1: your life where you just have to say, fuck, it
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be fun. See what happens, right, attitude harder
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  Speaker 1: parts to sing than I do. I'm gonna say Steve's
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  Speaker 1: vocals are a bit harder than mine.
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  Speaker 2: So how does that work out? Who does what vocal parts?
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  Speaker 2: I guess because like I say, you're sort of you're
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  Speaker 2: coming into it fresh and new.
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  Speaker 1: So if it involves real singing like holding out notes,
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  Speaker 1: that's usually Steve. And if it's just shouting, then that's
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  Speaker 1: when I'll take it.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes over real, Like your music blends hardcore and punk
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  Speaker 5: with electronica, Like it's three genres that don't often go
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  Speaker 5: well together, Like in the creative process, how difficult is
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  Speaker 5: it to blend those three styles together to bring some
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  Speaker 5: cohesive out.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's not as hard because we listen
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of it, so you're not mixing elements
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  Speaker 1: that you don't kind of know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a lot harder to mixed genres that
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  Speaker 1: you're not super familiar with. So fortunately me and Steve
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  Speaker 1: we listen to a lot of the same bands and
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  Speaker 1: artists and the range is pretty wide. But it does
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  Speaker 1: include everything from really heavy music to you know, fast
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  Speaker 1: drum 'd bass, and that that sort of gives us
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  Speaker 1: a like a common ground to pull from that makes
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  Speaker 1: it really fun to collaborate.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're a listed w EP galore last September Mate,
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  Speaker 2: then there's only six tracks on that, so I want
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  Speaker 2: to run through each of them individually. Tell us a
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  Speaker 2: bit more about the song or the musically or what
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  Speaker 2: it's about, or both if you feel like it.
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  Speaker 4: So first up, we got Pulling.
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  Speaker 3: Teeth banger that is an out the Gate heater. When
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  Speaker 3: we were writing that, it was just like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is we need. We need the audience to bounce, jump jig,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like we really like we accomplished that
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  Speaker 3: with this one. Chorus is big, simple catchy, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, and just the heavy part it's not
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  Speaker 3: even halftime, but it still smacks. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just pulling teeth.
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  Speaker 2: You know. There's an interesting story with the music video
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  Speaker 2: that goes along with it too. Can you tell us
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so the video We went to India, So,
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  Speaker 3: like eleven ish years ago, I've watched this documentary on
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  Speaker 3: IFC about the Well of Death and how it pertains
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  Speaker 3: to the culture over there and how it's just like
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  Speaker 3: such a spectacle and the stepifying motorcycle and car drivers
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  Speaker 3: essentially drive on the walls and a circle and this
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  Speaker 3: giant well, and I was like, man, it would be
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  Speaker 3: really sick to see a band play in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of that one day. Oh well, I just there. I
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  Speaker 3: was not in a band where that would make sense
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  Speaker 3: or could like implement that, but now I am. So
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  Speaker 3: we went to India and after traveling for what seemed
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  Speaker 3: like one hundred years, we got Seemed as well, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just so much bigger than we thought it
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  Speaker 3: was going to be. And it was just gnarally like
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  Speaker 3: just being in the center of that while these guys
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  Speaker 3: are just driving on the walls and it was really hot.
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  Speaker 3: It was just it was just such a life experience,
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  Speaker 3: such an experience like I you know, like it's one
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  Speaker 3: of those things that as you're doing it, you're like, wait,
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  Speaker 3: this is like actually like crazy dangerous definitely, but it
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  Speaker 3: was but it was great, Like I really, I am
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  Speaker 3: glad we were able to do something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole new meaning to the term driving me
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  Speaker 2: up the wall. Anyway, fact, all right, next up, you
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  Speaker 2: got Fuse hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Use was the last one that we wrote on the EP,
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  Speaker 1: and I think what was cool about it is we
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  Speaker 1: had sort of done like five different types of songs
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  Speaker 1: and when we got to the end, we're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what does this need? And between us Jordan and Nick,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that song was like a mix of everything.
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  Speaker 1: So it was I don't know, it was just cool
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  Speaker 1: to have something that could sort of like recap everything
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  Speaker 1: as far as the writing process went. And the video
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  Speaker 1: for that was the first time that we actually got
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  Speaker 1: to play any of our music with an audience there.
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  Speaker 1: So that was probably the most fun to film, just
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  Speaker 1: because we got to share the energy with other people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Nice. Then you got learn to Forget.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Learn and Forget is like bro that song is
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  Speaker 3: like just a straight up it's like it's like hardcore influence.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's probably our most hardcore influenced song. Catchy
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  Speaker 3: singing chorus, it's just like, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was going to be like.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like home. That's like a lot of what
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  Speaker 1: we grew up playing. So it's good to have something
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  Speaker 1: in the set that you know, you're not sitting there
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  Speaker 1: thinking super hard. Where some of these when we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to sing and play parts and do all this other stuff,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of concentrating. So I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: like a good break for us to just get to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it live nice.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's Being One.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Being One came about in the studio with
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  Speaker 1: Jordan and I think part of what was so cool
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  Speaker 1: about that was his ability to get so much out
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  Speaker 1: of Steve's voice because we had been writing for a
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  Speaker 1: year prior and we had done music similar to that,
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  Speaker 1: but we never really knew what to do with the
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  Speaker 1: vocals because the only thing we'd pulled off was like
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  Speaker 1: heavier stuff. So I think that was just a really
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  Speaker 1: cool experience because it sort of gave us an idea
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  Speaker 1: of a new direction that we could possibly venture into
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  Speaker 1: when we're writing. And again, a huge part of that
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  Speaker 1: was Jordan really showing the potential of what Steve could
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  Speaker 1: do with his voice.
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  Speaker 4: And we've got it's supposed to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: That was song one that was the beginning of the war.
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  Speaker 1: That was first day. The verse in the first verse
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  Speaker 1: is like us improvising, Like we didn't even end up
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  Speaker 1: retracking it, so like we had to kind of figure
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  Speaker 1: out what we were saying because it was so like
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  Speaker 1: we had like decipher it based off of what came out.
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  Speaker 1: But it's what we close with. Honestly, as much as
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  Speaker 1: I love everything, there's something about that being the first
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  Speaker 1: time that we heard our voices and we're okay with
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  Speaker 1: it that makes that my favorite to play. It just
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  Speaker 1: feels like sort of like the starting point for everything.
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  Speaker 4: Hice and then better Off is the fount of one.
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  Speaker 3: Better Off was like a I've that I've always wanted
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  Speaker 3: to like have in a band, Like I'd love songs
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  Speaker 3: like that, the electronica, big sort of heavy, melodic, crooney thing,
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  Speaker 3: like I've always wanted to try my hand at that,
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  Speaker 3: and to finally be able to do it in this
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  Speaker 3: band was really it just felt really good. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just I think it came out way heavier than
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be. Like that breakdown
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  Speaker 3: at the end is like crushing, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I just love it. It's a it's a challenging song
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  Speaker 3: to sing sometimes just because it's like just like all
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  Speaker 3: over the place vocally, but I think it's it's one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorites for sure.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, No, it's goes now.
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  Speaker 2: I know twenty twenty five is just getting started. So
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  Speaker 2: what he's got planned for us for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the year, you got to map.
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  Speaker 1: Dad, Yeah, we got We've written a bunch of stuff
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  Speaker 1: and then we have booked a ton of dates. So
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  Speaker 1: it's more just trying to figure out when each of
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  Speaker 1: those things happens because anything that we right requires us
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  Speaker 1: to also work on the music video, and we're very
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  Speaker 1: hands on with our director Kevin that we did all
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  Speaker 1: the previous ones with. So yeah, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. We're just figuring out when
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  Speaker 1: each of those things is actually going to be out
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  Speaker 1: to the public.
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  Speaker 2: Fantasic Gard So I know you's got a busy schedule, Lie,
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  Speaker 2: so I appreciate you taking time out of chat with
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  Speaker 2: us and enjoy the rest of your time in Australia
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully we see out here on a headline intro
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  Speaker 2: one day soon.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we gotta do that.