the millennial club i nt e r v i e w by a lex music
What inspired your latest EP, She’s So Insane? She’s So Insane took us over two years to finish. It’s certainly a short compilation of music, but as our debut to the world, I think it does a really good job of highlighting the spectrum of sounds we want to be known for as a band—as The Millennial Club. I feel like we are mostly known for writing love songs, but I think if you really listen, you’ll find it’s more than that. What was the recording process like for the EP? When it comes to recording, we tend
to be somewhat of perfectionists. We’re very DIY in our approach since we don’t necessarily record out of our studio. Of course we get our tracks mixed and mastered [by] some really talented engineers and professionals, but most of the recordings happen in our rooms—which is cool and unexpected because people have told us our music sounds very crisp and pristine. It tells us we’re doing something right. What would you say is your favorite song that you’ve written? Most of our fans know us for our debut single “love is so hard!” but I think we all agree as a band that “MI,” in
particular, is all of our favorites on that release, and there are a lot of good reasons for that. For one, the song took forever to finish; it practically held up the whole entire release. [It’s] really tough because we tend to be perfectionists when it comes to actually finishing music and calling it “done”—I mean, is a song ever done? Not to mention, our boy Jake was still in school in South Dakota, and it was terribly hard to finish it without his phenomenal sax solo on the track. Overall, it must’ve taken us 8-10 months to finish that one track. Can we expect a full length album anytime soon? We’ve already begun the process of writing our debut album. Our debut EP, She’s So Insane, was a great introduction to our signature sound, but there is so much more coming. The new music will still sound like classic TMC, but with a lot of new styles that only our fans have experienced live. We don’t have an exact release date for the full-length album yet, but the first single off it will probably come out on Valentine’s Day since we have a band tradition of doing something special for our fans every year on that date. It’s been really exciting, to say the least. Who or what are some of the inspirations for your music? It’s really hard to pinpoint specific artists that have inspired our music. Lots of people have opinions about how our music should be labeled as a genre, and we like to think it leans towards pop and R&B with an indie feel.
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We often get compared to The 1975 and LANY, but our influences are defiIssue Five
