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Echoes Of The Future With MAT ROBINS From CICADASTONE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Matt from Cicadastone. We have a new album out today actually called Future
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  Echoes and we're super excited. Yeautiful, Matt. Thanks for joining us today,
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  brother, thanks so my pleasure. So, as you say, your
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  new album, Future Echoes lands today made the thirty first mate. So how
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  does it feel to finally have it out there ready for mass consumption? Oh,
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  I'm so relieved. It's just been in such a journey, like you
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  know, any band will know, you know, from the process of writing,
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  through the pre production, through the record, through to mixing, mastering,
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  releasing. It's it's you know, it takes a long time. And
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  to get to the point where we can finally put it out there and put
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  it to bed, so to speak, let it go. It's it's great.
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  It's a good thing. We can move on too, you know as
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  a band. Yeah, it's true. And this is your third album overall.
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  Mate, So there's a process get easier or harder as you go along.
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  You think it would get easier, but I think it's getting harder.
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  You know, Like we all have lives, you know, we all we're
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  all busy and we all do things. And I'd love to say we're making
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  a living out of music. But we're not. We're just we just the
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  band is is its own entity which we bought heartened Soul into. But that
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  said, you know, people, we all have lives to live, and
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  so this for this record, it was just really hard to just lock everyone
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  down, you know, just to find time when we could, and I
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  reckon it took a good year, longer than it probably should have. But
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  that's that's just how went and and it is what it is true that and
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  you're also releasing the single Take the Fall today, bro, So why that
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  song to represent the album on release day? Say that again? Sorry?
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  Miss that white? Choose that album to represent? Sorry? Why choose that
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  song to represent the album on release day? Well, I mean it's it's
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  a funny one because I didn't actually really think it was a song to be
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  chosen for that sort of a role, but our label certainly pushed to that
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  point and they saw it as a as a good single. But I mean,
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  it's got a catchy chorus. I guess it just for me, It
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  just didn't really jump out as a as a song that would be a single,
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  but here it is. Well, you can't really argue with Jim can
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  you he's got runs on the No, you can't argue with Tim. And
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  you've also got two other singles from the album, in the Crossfire and Last
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  in Line. So would you say all three of those together are a good
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  side of representation of what to expect. Yeah, I think so. I
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  think they're definitely the more you know, they've got the they've got the radio
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  friendly choruses. I guess you'd say at the end of the day, But
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  they do show. All three songs show a bit of light and shade in
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  their own way, and they do represent aspects of this record quite well.
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  Yeah, tell us about the rest of the album then, from musical point
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  of view, bro, Like, how would you sum it up? And
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  then what are you going for with it? While there's some songs that are
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  heavier, there's some songs that are a little bit lighter, there's a bit
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  of a there's a bit of an act, couple of songs that have a
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  bit more acoustic flavor to them. I don't know if there was any sort
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  of angle I was going for. It's just you just write songs, you
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  know, and and and what comes out what comes out at the time.
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  For me, I certainly I think I've said this in the past. I
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  certainly leaned on our two previous records for just Feel and Vibe and and I
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  think this album is a bit of a blend of both in that respect,
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  It's got a bit more commercial appeal, but it's also got some dark elements
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  too. Now, the cover art is pretty awesome, bro, featuring a
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  child in a gas mask colding yellow balloons. So it looks awesome, but
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  what's it What sort of landscapers are China paint? Yeah, well, it's
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  funny because the the streaming release, the online release is just the it's just
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  that further. But the the CD and vinyl, when we do the vinyl
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  actually folds out to like a three panel picture and that's in the center,
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  the picture in the center, And so the first picture is like showing the
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  past, which is lush greenery, and then it shows the future, which
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  is you know, apocalyptic fucking mayhem. So you know, I guess,
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  And it comes back to Future Echoes of the choices that we make. You
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  know, how we said this is your third album, bro, So how
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  would you say the music on Future Echoes difference to that from your debut album,
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  Chance Collide. Oh look, I think, like I said, you
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  know, I feel like I borrowed aspects of Chance Collide and Cold Chamber,
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  But I do think it's we're more refined band. I think the songs are
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  they've had a little more time to be just fleshed out a bit. I
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  think the production is a step better and the all in all, I just
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  think it's it's just a slick of production in all aspects. And your three
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  albums have come in four year cycles, with Chance Collide coming out in twenty
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  sixteen, Cold Chamber I mean twenty twenty, and now Future Echoes in twenty
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  twenty four. So is that by design or just coincidence. It's coincidence,
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  Covid had a bit to do with it, and I would definitely be saying
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  the next album after Future Echoes is already well in its way being written,
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  and I'd like to be pumping that out much sooner than twenty twenty eight.
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  Listening to your music, bro like it is heavily entrenched in the grunge type
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  rockland. Really it's come in and out of favor over the years, mate,
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  So as a band, have you ever tried to keep up with the
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  changing trends of music? Like that or have you just followed your own path
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  and like, Ahna, I mean I never left nine to ninety four,
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  so I'm still there, still in high school. Yeah, I look,
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  I think at the end of the day, you know, we we write
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  songs, We make music for us. That's really obvious because we're certainly not
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  trying to keep up with any trends. We're just we're just making the songs
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  we like to make and if anyone digs it, that's great. Well.
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  So along those lines, how much musical growth would you say there is left
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  in Cicada Stone. There's a bit to explore, you know. I think
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  any band, any band, has to change in order to to stay relevant.
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  And even though I don't think we're very relevant, being stuck in the
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  nineties, but as relevant as we can be. You know, I think
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  each album's taken on a slight form of its own. It's slowly developing and
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  changing, and and I think that the next set of songs that we've we've
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  been working on they have a darker appeal again, and there's a bit there's
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  a bit more like just drop B tuning and interesting things we haven't done before,
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  which is really cool. So you know, I think we'll do this
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  until we can't until until there's no point, until we don't have anything.
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  Let's to say. Now, with the album coming out, bro, I'm
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  guessing that there's going to be some launch parties. I wish, you know,
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  we didn't get really at time. I wanted to do something tonight,
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  you know, and but we just didn't really get time to organize anything.
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  So tomorrow night is sorry tonight, let me start that again. Let me
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  start that all against I'll let that out talking about today. So yeah,
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  so look, you know, I wanted to organize something for last night,
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  but we just didn't get time. So tonight is the night we're going to
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  have a big bash and we're just going to celebrate, put out a good
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  record, and enjoy it. Ye're easy, my friend. Well, thanks
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  for your time that I might be a pleasure speech with you. Mate.
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  The album is out today and it's called Future Echoes and a fucking Rocks,
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  So best to luck, my friend. Thanks mate, thanks for the time,
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