The Millennial Club

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. We often get compared to The 1975 and LANY, but our influences are definitely more eclectic than that. Some of our favorite albums were written by bands that most people don’t expect. To give you an idea, here are our top 10 favorite albums of all time as a band (in no particular order):

Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Prospekt’s March Edition) Hippo Campus - Landmark Beatenberg - The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg Mutemath - Armistice Bon Iver - Bon Iver Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix The 1975 - The 1975 (Deluxe Edition) Madeon - Adventure Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow Duran Duran - Rio

What are some goals you have for the future?

When it comes to goals, I think every band tends to have similar goals: get featured in big publications, chart on Billboard, get songs spinning on the radio, or win a Grammy (lol), but for us, touring the world be so sick. We’ve come to develop relationships with fans from places we would have never imagined, like Thailand, The Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, and [...] the UK. It’s unbelievable that technology has given us the ability to have a platform in all of these countries. It will be very unreal when we play our first international festival.

Are there any upcoming tours or releases we can look forward to?

We actually just wrapped up our first tour ever. It was a pretty short run, but we played some phenomenal venues like The Troubadour in LA, The Observatory in Santa Ana, and Slim’s in San Francisco. It was a very special tour for us because, for the first time, we felt like every single one of those shows were so so solid. I mean, the energy of the crowd was really different compared to our shows when we first started playing just a little over two years ago. You can really start to tell that you’re making an impact because we would look out in the crowd, and there are fans out there who seem to know every single word. It’s crazy.

In terms of future tours, it’s hard to say. Right now, we’re finishing a 2- track EP with one of our best friends, Tori Romo, and we’re really excited for the world to hear just how angelic her voice is. After that, we’ll be shifting our focus to our debut album, which is going to be a true reflection of how we want the world to see The Millennial Club’s sound in our purest form.