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Strength In Unity With NATHAN MARIAT From RESOLVE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Everyone. My name is Nathan and the drummer from the Bend Resolve. We're
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  Ben from Lyon Friends and you're listening to the have You podcast music. That's
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  the while, that's that's that's the name, right, that's the one brother.
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  Thanks for joining us tonight night. Yeah, thank you, Oh Worries
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  and also Resolved. I released your second album human I only last Friday.
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  Mate, Like, I know it hasn't been out long, but how's the
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  earlier reception been for it. It's been like mixed, but mixed in on
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  the would say good good good feedbacks. Like some people like the fact that
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  we try to explore different gender, different different origins musically. Also some people
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  will find what makes them happy in the album, but like maybe only in
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  a few songs, but at the end of the day, that's the only
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  thing that matters. If we release songs that you like, well, then
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  whether you like the entire album or not, if you're happy with some of
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  the songs, real world, it means we did off chub great good.
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  So can you tell us a bit more about the album from a musical point
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  of view? What you were going for with it? So we were trying
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  to its it's really hard to explain. Like we're trying to speak to as
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  much people as we can with our music since it has always been since the
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  beginning, we've always listened to many different styles of music, and we really
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  wanted to implement that in our I mean the music we make, and this
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  album actually no different, just us trying to cover as many guys that we
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  like while retaining a heavy sound. I wouldn't say a metal sound because that's
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  not the main idea of the album. It's not like a metal album.
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  It's a heavy band album trying to showcase everything they can do while still showing
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  everybody how how heavy we can be, but also how soft we can be.
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  It's like the most sincere music we wrote since we started this band.
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  And I mean, I know a lot of people said that about their album,
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  but we really just wanted to do everything we wanted and not not impose
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  us any limits or or any kind Yeah, and you're released five singles all
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  up? So are you're released in Stone All the Day's New Colors, Death
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  of Whites and Humans? Yeah, just say that's all someone's heard or resolves
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  music, which is either they're a good representation of the whole album I would
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  say some of the track that represents the most album are probably Human and New
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  Colors and maybe Older Days. Tonically speaking, in terms of styles, in
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  Stone is typically the kind of songs that I think will always figure on any
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  of the album we release, because, as I said, we like to
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  get stuffed at sometimes and this is the kind of stuff that we know we're
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  good at. And yeah, I would say in Stone, New Colors and
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  Human probably some of the most representative of the whole album. I would say
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  the whole album style and one of those singles, All the Days, features
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  test vocals from sen fifty six and Pile Face Swis. So it's a SiZ
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  of band exploring elements of trap and hip hop. Mate, Like that's a
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  bit of a departure, like what magic in that direction? Well, there's
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  many reasons to that. First of all, like we wanted to explore again
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  and the rap gender rise and something we have tried before in the best.
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  So we wanted that kind of challenge because a few challenges here and there help
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  us actually, like entertainers during the writing the writing of the albums. It
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  actually it's a good way to give your new ideas trying to go against your
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  will and trying sometimes to force you to write something different, and this was
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  one of those songs. But we also felt like it sounded like Bends we've
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  been touring with, or like we could tell this song was wrote because we
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  were influenced by bends we toured with, such as Bends like ten fifty six
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  or even Paleface. We played a few show with them, and we as
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  soon as the song was ready to go, we were like, we should
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  have a featuring on this one, but unfortunately we didn't have the time to
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  do it before we delivered the album. So that's why you got actually our
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  own version of all the Days on the album and the featuring version with the
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  zeal and our own booth from Lace in ten fifty six, which was released
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  later. And we actually decided to keep it as a standal single in a
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  way, we wanted the album to be our album, and also this type,
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  this title why really fitting their voice was done primarily without them, so
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  we still wanted to have the original songs to have the the exposure it deserved.
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  But yeah, this this felt like an evidence asking them to do thirting
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  on this one because we felt like they could their voice would match, so
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  well, and actually took delivery to to try a few lyrics changed here and
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  there so that it can match their style and add a few lines. It
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  was a great experience of overall, and I recently had the pleasure of reviewing
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  him and Made and I absolutely loved it. Like you guys have got a
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  style of all of your own. There's chiming and tampo changes the glare and
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  they're like, it's all like the shop, but it works. Like where
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  did you say i'd actually come from? What? What sorry comes from?
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  So did you see your sound? Like all that plending your styles? H
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  well from the four of us listening to very different style. I mean,
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  like I know Antony and is allot into classic music. Anthony and Rubin both
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  really like progressive stuff. I'm more into, I want to say, hip
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  hop, but R and B pop music, And I mean all of us
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  listens to metal and especially medical. But it's not like it's not the kind
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  of it's not necessarily I would say the bands we grew up watching because we
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  were it wasn't a thing by them, and we actually grew up watching more
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  general band general artists, like you know the bands everybody knows, like Metallica
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  and Nirvana, and I mean, we don't stop to anything that isn't metal.
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  We I feel there's talent everywhere and you should try and to take inspiration
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  from anyone from everywhere. If it just makes you feel something, it means
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  that you like it, and it's just it's just the way it goes.
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  You know, you should not write metal and only listen to metal album.
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  If you do that, you're not going to make the sound evil and even
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  you as an artist will probably like and be bored really quick. This is
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  something we can help. We like to just try to add many things because
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  we feel metal should be should have more elements of everything. It's kind of
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  a music that it's still again too much stuck to its own code, and
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  we kind of want to shake it up a bit. As you said,
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  my like, you've got so much done on musically pretty much in every song.
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  But how difficult is it to sort of combine all those stalls and and
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  still have the song? How hasive at the end of the day, You're
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  like, is it hard to sort of so many directions? Well bring it
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  back together? Well, First of all, one thing that helps a lot
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  is the which was done by Robin that you should our journey you should have
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  sorry originally on the podcast. So yeah, he engineered the whole album and
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  he mixed it by himself. So that makes a big part of our sound
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  actually because we're all together where the album is produced from start to finish,
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  which isn't something you can always have from an external producer. So this is
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  one thing that really defines the song we have is already the mix, and
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  I would say what I felt was the main the main way to connect everything,
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  every song with each other. Sorry about that. It was the guitar
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  work, honestly, like like the risks, some risks are simpler. But
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  even though we would have like a metal song going on after after a soft
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  song, even though it's metal, it's not going to be crazy technique or
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  or anything like. Whereas it's a soft song or a metal song or in
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  between, we try to add the kind of same reefs to have the kind
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  of ambience you can hear a lot of think Indians in the whole album.
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  Yeah, there's a lot of that actually fuse the whole thing together really really
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  well. All these songs blended together because of that because it's mainly coming from
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  the same instruments, whereas it's a soft tongue or middle songs, you're gonna
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  hear the same scenes or some callbacks from other songs. And I feel like
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  this is a way to keep track of your style while I'm trying to,
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  Yeah, to just write as much as you can without going crazy and in
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  a too much direction at once. So ex human like a concept album,
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  the source or is advice, you have a central theme of the human spirit.
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  I guess, well, it's kind of like a previous album. We
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  kind of like the idea of concept album, but we feel it's it would
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  like, really, it would too much reduce the choices and the possibility that
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  you can make in terms of lyric and we feel like it would it would
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  restrain us if we were to do that. So that's why we have We
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  like to have like a concept but maybe in one or two songs, a
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  concept that where you could say both of the song speaks of the same thing.
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  But we don't want to like added to the whole album. We still
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  want songs that speaks for themselves. And yeah, I would say just like
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  the previous album, which had a few songs connected to each other, which
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  were Emerald skys and Between Me and the Machine, which was the title track
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  of our previous album. This album, I would say have human and new
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  colors connected together. But apart from that, the songs have some common themes,
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  but it's I wouldn't say it's a concept album or the band is a
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  constant band, because we always we always speak about the same two or three
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  subjects. Most of the time, there's some new ideas that comes in,
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  but there's a few things we want to speak about, and most of the
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  time, from one album to the other, our perception of it have changed,
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  but it's still the same issues we're talking about. We have plenty of
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  those, but we're not trying to find like a new purpose in every album,
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  to find a new center or anything. We still feel like we have
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  many things to tell with what we already spoke about. And it's also very
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  interesting to see the points of view from a band from one album to the
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  other on the same exact we said the semisact topics like as how did they
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  grow as a band or as people in general? How did they feel now
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  regarding those feelings they were feeling two years ago. It's like it's like we're
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  talking about us pretty much, yeah, and what it is to be human
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  at the core and what defines your human you know, which is why this
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  album is like really, I would say, the most honeless form of resolve
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  yet. So how much do you say that other Huven difference musical change the
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  debut album between Me and the Machine, I would say, we I feel
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  like it's the same thing we wanted to do with between Me in the Machine.
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  But I would say, like people that don't usually listen to me at
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  all, we said a lot would actually like I think our music, or
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  at least one or two songs, And I don't feel this album is actually
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  different in any way. Like I know people's mother or grandmother might like in
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  Stone and you know, like someone's he's going to go crazy in his room
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  listening to blood Lust because that's that's the main idea of the song. But
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  no, I think we just went even further with this idea, you know,
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  like we want we wanted the heavy scene to like us. But the
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  thing is, I'd like to I would like to play music for everybody and
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  saw those every everyone else in the band, like we want to be at
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  festivals that aren't stick to metal or anything, you know, we want to
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  like, how do you If you want to grow as an artist, you
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  also need to grow your community. But if you stay in one's really a
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  tiny area of the music industry, you're not going to get like as far
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  as you wish. And we want to go as as far as we can.
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  And we knew since the start that there was something that had us to
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  be eclectic in every way. We could write music that could make your headband
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  but also cry and you know, take your fun out with the light torch
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  and just sting with us. We like everything in music, and I feel
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  this is the main thing you can feel in well while listening to Human And
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  you guys aggest about the head off and started tour bread. So I think
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  I'm in about mine days start about a bit of a big, big running
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  shows coming up. Yeah, we have our longest set of songs yet we're
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  playing in an hour and ten minutes. We're pretty much playing the overall album
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  Human Life. Yeah, I can honestly say that it's like we haven't ever
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  played as much song as we're doing now. And I think if you liked
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  the album, we're going to play a lot of songs from the new album
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  and it's actually yeah, it's it feels great. We're We've been rehearsing like
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  crazy. We've been hard at work and production and light show, light show
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  techniques, everything. We try to improve constantly and this damasion not going to
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  be different. It's actually going to be our biggest French ship laying shows ever
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  until the next one actually, but yeah, yeah, the two starts on
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  September and it's going We're going to be pretty much everywhere in France for the
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  next coming months because we're turing. We're playing shows every Friday, Saturday and
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  Sundays. It's gonna be very bad. Great, all right, Nathan,
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  Well, thanks very much for each Old Man's been a pleasure. The album
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  Human is out now and if you haven't got your hands on a copy,
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  I suggest you have a listen really quick, especially an absolutely cracking mate.
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  So thanks you you sorry, Bra, thank you very much, thanks for
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  having me. I want to remember a side child now fly flies say said
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  my da arber showery shower side your words? What is there's a child conclus
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  he dies out of cousin fis screen? What does say so yet say flies
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  always saying God is is coloring its buddy? In the side. I feel
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  it to the side like your side now raise Now they think my body was
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  not truly signing, so s speak its over the nor's the world on the
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  shower was very just? Then, let's as it Sunday six sometime. What
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  I do your side on mats all that side of black? I like Friday
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  Mother, roll up the shat she was there. I can't live like that,
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  lessen. I let the thing on dark lays out of your nation tild
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  and once I teen, I got the one while I d what ship till
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  my Saturday complicat over the flavor. What ain't gonna rus? No, No,
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  I couldn't sickly about it. So be us to close to the song,
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  but winds off st to u sha to lay light. I couldn't see
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  the hide, So the sissy speaking to you every what's the world from the
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