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STELLAR CIRCUITS: Evolution, Controlled Chaos & The Rise Toward Their Heaviest Record Yet · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: But Jesse and us have I got Ben?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Ben, Ben, Sorry, I've just actually closed my windows
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  Speaker 2: because it's a bit noisy on my street today. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jesse and Ben from Stellar Circus Welcome. What's been happening
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  Speaker 2: for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Just working on music? We're going on getting this new
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  Speaker 3: stuff out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the new album that's just oh sorry nor it
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  Speaker 1: comes out. Is it the.
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  Speaker 2: Fourteenth of November, but it's due out yep? Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And is that what album number is that for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: You'll be all right third night?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty exciting. And was there? Do you
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  Speaker 1: spend a long time in the studio working on that one?
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  Speaker 3: About the same as we've spent for most of the others.
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  Speaker 3: It's we take about a month to track it. We
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  Speaker 3: call everything out pretty extensively before we go track it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the skeleton so to speak to them, go
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  Speaker 2: and fill in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we when we demo stuff, we pretty
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  Speaker 3: much to a t kind of recorded the way that
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  Speaker 3: we want and then just go to another studio and
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  Speaker 3: just kind of recreate everything with better equipment.
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  Speaker 1: Refine, chewing and polished yep. Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: And when you guys are in studio, do you do
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  Speaker 2: you track it like and one hit like is a
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  Speaker 2: band or you do separate and then do layers.
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  Speaker 1: How how do you approach for that?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much how any other band's going to do it nowadays?
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  Speaker 3: Is everything separate? You know, except for you know, a
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  Speaker 3: certain type of vibe.
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  Speaker 4: You know, We've we talked about like maybe doing the
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  Speaker 4: rhythm section like together on this last time. It just
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  Speaker 4: always it always complicates things a little bit. So it's
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  Speaker 4: just nice to do the drum. We usually just do
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  Speaker 4: the drums first and then the bass of the guitar
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  Speaker 4: and then the vocals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nice, nice.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it just it depends on your approach and
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  Speaker 2: your kind of music as well.
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  Speaker 1: I guess to get that really.
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  Speaker 2: Fine sharing do you want on them do that separately
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  Speaker 2: and strip it right apart and make sure it comes
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  Speaker 2: to get abolished.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for anything that has really a modern sound, you're
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  Speaker 3: really going to want to do isolation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have got a pretty heavy sound, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. I gave the new track a listen and
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. You've also got a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: the sneaky melodica in there as well, which is a nice,
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  Speaker 2: nice mixture. So it is that in line with your
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  Speaker 2: previous stuff that you've done before, or is that something
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  Speaker 2: new that you've branched out into.
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  Speaker 3: It's about how we've always done stuff. We like to balance,
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  Speaker 3: like heavier and lighter stuff and just kind of find
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  Speaker 3: our way in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's nice. It's it's a good mix.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly gives it that hybrid feel.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and so with tours and live gigs,
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  Speaker 2: how are you going for that?
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  Speaker 1: What's the plan? You've got some stuff coming up next
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  Speaker 1: early next year? I think, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're working on setting everything up for next year.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dovetail off this release and hit the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Running for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember, like there was something with Soul Fly,
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  Speaker 3: but not us.
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  Speaker 4: Not US, I mean there there's they're signed to Nuclear
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  Speaker 4: Blasts as well, that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: would be cool. We would love this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they I think they just come down. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, not that long, but we don't remember. It's
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  Speaker 2: doing something about them. So so yeah, So what do
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  Speaker 2: you have any like stuff playing for the new year
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  Speaker 2: for tours in live shows or is that in the
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  Speaker 2: in the process, not in.
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  Speaker 4: The books, but we're we're definitely playing on it early
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  Speaker 4: next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, And how do you guys go find playing BLAG audience?
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  Speaker 2: Is it different to getting it out in the studio?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely different.
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  Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's it's different than playing in the studio,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely. Is it like no, have you been come over you.
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  Speaker 2: Or just it's just the whole experience altogether.
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  Speaker 3: I think the whole experience, But everybody's different. I've definitely
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  Speaker 3: always struggled with just like social anxiety and nervousness and
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  Speaker 3: stage fright type of thing, but it's it's it's worthwhile
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  Speaker 3: to push through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's definitely a thing, especially when you're looking
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  Speaker 2: out to thousands of faces down there expecting something from you,
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  Speaker 2: and it gets a bit daunting and overwhelming. But actually say,
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, it can be fast experience. Ever,
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  Speaker 2: it's exhilarating. So yeah, so just to your base, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and Ben, what is it that you play?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm the vocalist vocals, that's right, Sorry, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be yeah, it's you're the front man for Frontal.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, it's a good position to have but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let you say, you can get a bit nerve wracking
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  Speaker 2: from time to time, but I'm sure you guys wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be wanting to do anything else.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's even even with the struggles that
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  Speaker 3: come with it, it's still everything that we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool job. So how long have stell
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  Speaker 2: a Circus been together?
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  Speaker 1: A groupful? How mean he is now be a little off?
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  Speaker 4: About ten ten years?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of yeah, and so in that time, is
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  Speaker 2: there been much change or tell me a little about
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  Speaker 2: a little bit where you've come from until now you're here.
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  Speaker 1: What's some any highlights low lights?
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  Speaker 3: There's been a few changes over the years. When we started,
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  Speaker 3: it took a little while to get the right pieces
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  Speaker 3: in place, and we wrote this record with our guitar
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  Speaker 3: player who joined us on our last album years ago,
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  Speaker 3: but since he's become the primary guitarist of our band.
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  Speaker 3: So okay for the part though, everything's been pretty pretty
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  Speaker 3: similar throughout.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice, nice. And so you guys are based in
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  Speaker 1: the States whereabouts on the east or west coast on
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  Speaker 1: the east coast, East coast. Nice? Nice. So you're.
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  Speaker 2: Let me guess you'll Thursday evening? Is that correct where
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  Speaker 2: you are right now? Yeah, yeah, nice Friday after coming
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  Speaker 2: into our early afternoon for us.
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  Speaker 1: Over here, no doubt. Oh yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Always fun knowing that what the time time zones are
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  Speaker 2: and the difference. So yeah, so many clients to come
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  Speaker 2: come down under it all for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: We hope. So it's nothing that we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: do yet, but it's always been at the top of
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  Speaker 3: our list for.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And so what would you come out of like see
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  Speaker 2: yourself doing like maybe part of a festival or a
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  Speaker 2: headliner or.
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  Speaker 1: What's see how the hopes for yourselves to I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever would make sense, you know, depending on the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: we'd probably be down for whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, excellent. And so how many tracks
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  Speaker 2: are on this latest album? It's quit Fantsom Phoenix is
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  Speaker 2: that's the name?
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? There's ten songs?
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  Speaker 2: Ten songs, yeah, And so with the name of that
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  Speaker 2: fandom Phoenix, what's what was the inspiration for that? It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a bit of a it's yeah contrast, which
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  Speaker 2: is interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really it just starts phonetically. I think I
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  Speaker 3: like to collect titles and words and stuff, and that
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  Speaker 3: was one that just stuck and wouldn't go away and
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  Speaker 3: just kind of rose to the top as being like
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  Speaker 3: the title.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, nice, nice, And so from all those tracks,
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  Speaker 2: did you have like it? You didn't, guy who didn't
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  Speaker 2: release a single from that? You just released the album?
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? From this latest one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well the album comes out on the fourteenth. Yeah, up
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  Speaker 3: next month. But we've released three singles so far.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yes, yep, yeah, and so have they tracked
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  Speaker 2: fees so far? They they've been good with the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Fan base has got it right into it all. Yeah, yeah, nice,
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  Speaker 2: nice and so.
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  Speaker 1: Back got videos as well.
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys involved in that process or is that
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  Speaker 2: he handed over to someone else to do that side. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We we have a guy eras Beta that we've worked
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  Speaker 4: with for since our first record, and we just kind
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  Speaker 4: of bounce ideas off of him and he has his
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  Speaker 4: own creative input and we h yeah, we just create
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  Speaker 4: the videos together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nice and as fun kind of gets a bit weird sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: I think, but it can also be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to take the edge off and relax
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, not so serious and to notice the
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  Speaker 2: grind so to speak. Yeah, awesome. Well, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: coming and having a chat with Happy and we look
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  Speaker 2: forward to Foot eight when it comes out, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we'll see you guys down under the next year, well
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  Speaker 2: sometimes soon anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be nice.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look forward to awesome all right, guys, we'll take
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  Speaker 2: care and enjoy and we'll be in touch later.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: By