HUNNY

You [just released] your debut album Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. If you had to pick a favorite off of it what would it be?

Kevin: I think my favorite is “Change Your Mind.”

Jason: I’m with Kevin on that one.

Kevin: Good bass riff, good bridge.

Joey: I like “A Slow Death in Pacific Standard Time.” It’s the most different for us, it’s fun.

Jake: I like “Smarter Ways of Saying It” because it’s emo as hell.

Jason: Very eclectic. I like that.

How was making Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. different from previous singles/EPs?

Jake: We had more time to do it, we did it close to home, we did it with our friend Carlos—

Jason: —who is our friend now but we didn’t know him going in, and we did it with a real producer this time. Our first EP was with a real producer as well, but we haven’t done that since then. So it’s been like four years of just doing everything ourselves.

Jake: And Carlos is awesome and made the studio super comfortable. It was the most relaxed we’ve ever been recording.

Jason: And we spent more time on it.

Jake: I said that already.

Jason: [Laughs] You did? Oh, then we’re good.

How did you all meet?

Jason: Playing music.

Kevin: Space Camp.

Jake: No, I actually put my name down at Starbucks as Clifford. They call Clifford out and I go to get my latte, and it’s not my latte, it’s a cold brew. It’s got vanilla cream in it—I don’t want that! Turns out, these guys all also put Clifford down as their name. So, that’s how we met.

What’s your favorite song to play live?

Jake: My favorite song to play live is probably “Televised.” Why? The tempo change in the chorus.

Jason: It’s fun.

Jason: I don’t like that one as much on this tour because I have to play guitar on it now.

Kevin: I also don’t like it that he plays guitar on it.

Jason: [Laughs] See? Nobody’s happy about it.

Jason: Mine’s gotta be “Saturday Night.”

Joey: I’m liking “Slow Death” because we come out hot with that one first and people are like “What the heck is going on?” and it’s a new song and—

Jake: Also a tempo change in that song.

Jason: Three of them.

You’ve gone on tour in support of multiple bands in the recent years. Will we see a Hunny headline tour anytime soon?

Jason: We want to... I think we will do one, but it’s not planned. It’s not in the books yet.

Jake: We will do one, just not yet. We’ve been offered a few fun things with bands we love, so we’re gonna do those because we like to tour with bands that we like. So after that, for sure.

I made a poll recently on twitter about which single off Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.—

Joey: that was you! I saw that

[Laughs] Yeah, it was—about which was a better summer anthem and “Lula, I’m Not Mad” won. Agree or disagree?

Joey: “Lula” is pretty frickin’ summery.

Jason: It is, although “Saturday” [has] got good summer vibes too, though.

Joey: “Saturday” just wasn’t released first, so it didn’t have the bigger push.

Jake: I’d be interested, let’s give it a month and hit the poll again. I want to see if we take it to the streets the answer will stay the same. That being said, “Saturday Night” feels like a late summer track.

Jason: Oh, interesting.

Jake: It’s like September, it’s winding down.

Jason: You’re like, “I gotta go back to school—”

Jake: “—And I’m gonna stay inside.”

Jason: A little bit more emo.

Jake: Exactly. I’m not listening to it at the beach, I’m listening to it at home on a Saturday night.

If you could choose any artist (or band) to collab with, who would it be?

Kevin: I’d like a Charli XCX collab.

Jason: I’m into that. That’s a great answer.

Kevin: She’s just writing hits left and right.

Jake: The catchiest choruses.

Jason: Let’s just leave it there.

Joey: Or Kero Kero Bonito.

Jason: Ooooh.

Joey: You know, what’d be cool is if we could get the two of them to collab together, because they did stuff together.

Jake: Did they?

Joey: Didn’t they?

Jake: I dont think so. In your dreams, maybe.

Joey: Well, maybe they will now. Putting that out into the universe.

What was the best part about signing to Epitaph Records?

Jason: Everything.

Kevin: Yeah, the best part is just getting a group of people that back us.

Jake: They understand what we wanna do, they support us...

Kevin: It’s a family.

Jake: They’re awesome. Also, the coffee machine at their label office is fantastic.

Jason: Yeah, it’s really great.

Jake: We love coffee.

Jason: [Laughs] They do have a good coffee machine. “Darth Latte” is its name.

What did your songwriting process look like, for Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. or beyond?

Jason: It all depends. One of us comes in with an idea and then we kind of flush it out on acoustic guitar.

Jake: Or just sit at Kev’s house with his laptop with stuff plugged in and just try different things. Trying not to top line on songs, and just write the song as it comes.

Jason: Yeah, we rarely just sit in our practice space with our amps on full blast and just jam stuff out anymore.

Jake: It’s more stripped down, yeah.